HeadMMoid wrote:
Tail wheels were rare on most single engine aircraft until just before the Second World War, and when used they tended to be small.
This was what I was missing on the tail: I was looking and was telling me what should I understand on it?
Now I have it! It was missing the skid!
The tail wheel is a modern thing installed after concrete runways were the common. On grass the skid was usefull for braking the planes. Once that grass field almost disappeared all the Tiger Moths underwent the replacement of the tail skid with a wheel: on concrete it gained in maneuverability. Having been a Tiger Moth passenger a couple of times, I can tell it. 
Should I tell you which replica, both times, we were flying in formation with? No, I won't tell you it was a Fokker Dr.I with a Lycoming boxer engine. Ops, I told it!  |
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