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There was an aftermarket conversion to Tri-gear for the original Piper Cubs marketed in the fifties. Some LSA school in the US added one to their fleet a couple years ago and were surprised to get a measurably shorter takeoff run. Anyone want to take a stab at why?
For the record I’d fly the crap out of a tricycle Cub. I’d take it to Oshkosh and be the talk of the place all week. No one would be talking to me but about me is good enough, right?
I dunno. Look at a tri-pacer PA-22 then look at a pacer PA-20. The difference is wild.
I know which one I'd fly, but I was dropped on my head as a small child and was threatened with death when I was 10 years old if I didn't master a Maule.
"If you don't do something soon, we're going to die" - use of the learning factor of intensity in flight training when training a 10 year old in 1973 to fly a Maule M4-210C at Toronto Island.
Of course, you could just fly one of these:
Eagles may soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines - Brian Mulroney
Those Cirrus and Ercoupes are the only planes I actively dislike. No rudder? Forget that! Those side yolks with the centering spring chap my flat old white guy butt.