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Choosing Landing Gear: 2-wheel Tail-Dragger or Trike?
There are two types of landing gear: Tricycle, where the center of gravity (CG) is ahead of the main wheels and the nose wheel is steerable, and the Tail-dragger, with the CG located behind the main wheels, and the tail wheel is steerable. The diagram includes two schematics of landing gear, tail-dragger is illustration A, and a plane with trike gear is illustration B. The diagram is based on best practices in aircraft design, and...
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