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Tame Your Tail-dragger – Tips to improve your takeoffs and landings
Let’s face it, most RC scale aircraft today are tail-draggers; from sport planes and classic civilian aircraft to warbirds and fighters, where the little “steering” wheel is in back behind the main landing gear, the tail-dragger configuration remains very popular. Though the tailwheel has very little effect on the model’s flight performance, the landing gear configuration does make takeoffs and landings much different from planes with tricycle (trike) landing gear. Here are some of the...
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