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2. Tricycle landing gear - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Valley Engineering Backyard Flyer - Wikipedia

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   The BackYard Flyer is a high wing single-engine conventional landing gear or tricycle gear aircraft. The aircraft was built to comply with FAA part 103 rules for ultralight aircraft. The fuselage is constructed of welded aluminum tubing. The cantilever main wing is capable of rotating 90 degrees for storage without removal from the fuselage ...

4. Piper PA-11 Cub Special - Wikipedia

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   A small number of PA-11s have been modified to use a Tricycle landing gear. [3] The PA-11 was one of the first aircraft to be used by Piper for experiments with the nose wheel (also known as tricycle gear) configuration. Although its original design is intended to be a tail-dragger, a modification was created to mount a nose wheel.

5. Rans Designs - Wikipedia

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   Single seat, low-wing, tricycle landing gear lifting body: Rans S-12 Airaile: 1990 1000 (2006) Two seat, high-wing, tricycle landing gear light aircraft Rans S-14 Airaile: 1991 125 (December 2004) Single seat, high-wing, tricycle landing gear ultralight Rans S-15 Pursuit II: Not-built Two-seat, low-wing, retractable tricycle landing gear ...

6. Van's Aircraft RV-9 - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. Conventional landing gear - Wikipedia

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   Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term taildragger is also used.