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Re: Taildragger conversion

Subject: Re: Taildragger conversion
From: JLW <jeffw@telebyte.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:14:10
As much as I hate to contribute to the sizable noise to sound ratio of this 
list,
I say...  EXACTLY!   And, I'd like to see the tri-gears land on the unimproved
fields the fat mono wheel planes can land on.  Of course the tri-gears (if they
survived the landing) would have to be trailered away.   :-D

    Jeff

Brian Rauchfuss - PCD wrote:

>
> > many, if any.  As to the monowheel, IMHO it looks goofey, is a handful to
>
> Goofey?!?!  The beauty of the monowheel is one of the reasons I choose the
> Europa!  The trigear Europa looks just like every other airplane in the
> world, why would anyone want it?
>
> > manage on the ground, and has no inflight advantages whatsoever.  Why don't
> > you think about converting to a trigear as so many mono owners already have
> > done?
>
> After flying (and landing) taildraggers for awhile, I find them a lot more
> fun than trigear aircraft.  Trigear just isn't much challenge.
>
> Brian



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