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Tricycle gear is a type of aircraft undercarriage, or landing gear, that is arranged in a tricycle fashion. The tricycle arrangement has one or more nose wheels in a single front undercarriage and two or more main wheels slightly aft of the center of gravity. Tricycle gear aircraft are the easiest for takeoff, landing and taxiing, and ...
Pages in category "Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,219 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
1949 model M-18L at Oshkosh 2001 Mooney M-18C Mooney M-18C. The Mooney M-18 "Mite" is a low-wing, single-seat monoplane with retractable, tricycle landing gear. [1] [2]The Mite was designed by Al Mooney and was intended as a personal airplane marketed to fighter pilots returning from World War II.
Pages in category "Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 403 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The RV-9 is unique in Van's aircraft history in that the tricycle gear RV-9A version was flown first on June 15, 2000, three years before the tail wheel version flew. The later conventional landing gear equipped RV-9 was first flown by its designer in 2002. The RV-9A features solid circular spring steel landing gear with the nosewheel mounting ...
In 1929, Waterman built his first tailless monoplane, the Whatsit, which also used the then unusual tricycle landing gear. It had a swept wing, following the work of British pioneer J. W. Dunne on his Dunne D.7 of 1911. The Whatsit had a truncated fuselage and a forward trim plane. A development of the Whatsit was the high-wing Waterman ...
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear (1,186 P) Pages in category "Aircraft with tricycle landing gear" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The Derringer is a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a retractable tricycle landing gear. It had room for two in an enclosed cockpit with an unusual up and backward opening canopy. It was powered by two 100 hp Continental O-200 engines, one mounted on the leading edge of each wing. [ 1 ]