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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 ...
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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 ...
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.
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 Cessna 172 started as a tricycle landing gear variant of the taildragger Cessna 170, with a basic level of standard equipment. In January 1955, Cessna flew an improved variant of the Cessna 170, a Continental O-300-A -powered Cessna 170C with larger elevators and a more angular tailfin. [ 7 ]
Data from Van's Aircraft General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: one passenger Length: 21 ft 0 in (6.40 m) Wingspan: 24 ft 0 in (7.32 m) Height: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) Wing area: 116 sq ft (10.8 m 2) Empty weight: 1,120 lb (508 kg) Gross weight: 1,800 lb (816 kg) Fuel capacity: 42 U.S. gallons (160 L; 35 imp gal) Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming IO-360 four cylinder, horizontally opposed piston ...
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.