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Slick Goodlin
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David MacRay wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 18, 2023 5:06 pm
 a conventional gear conversion.
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Colonel
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A tailwheel jet has got character!



PS I’ve flown with some U-2 pilots. Ok sticks but nothing special. Not in the league of Rob Holland or Skip Stewart.
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David MacRay
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Those conversions are ok. Plus the ME jet is not a conversion.
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Slick Goodlin
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David MacRay wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:15 pm
 the ME jet is not a conversion.
True, but nor are the X-Cub, Spartan 12W, or Waco N I’d previously posted. Really, that cabin Waco came from the factory that way!

I won’t admit to outright cheating but I do stack the deck in my favour when practical.
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Squaretail
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Colonel wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:10 pm
 A tailwheel jet has got character!



PS I’ve flown with some U-2 pilots. Ok sticks but nothing special. Not in the league of Rob Holland or Skip Stewart.
Technically speaking the U-2 is not a tail dragger but rather a tandem geared airplane, one of the few besides the B-52 with its wheels directly in front of one another. Besides the challenge of its configuration, the main problem I read about landing he U-2 was being somewhat frozen, hypoxic and cramped up from the length of time of its missions.
The details of my life are quite inconsequential...
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Slick Goodlin
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Peak madness:
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Believe it or not that isn’t a King Air.

It’s just so weird.
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…or maybe you prefer oil puddles:
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Colonel
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At this point, only an accomplished sadist would post pictures of nosewheel DC-3 conversion…
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Slick Goodlin
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Colonel wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:45 am
 At this point, only an accomplished sadist would post pictures of nosewheel DC-3 conversion…
Is there such a thing?
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David MacRay
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Slick Goodlin wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 19, 2023 12:09 am
David MacRay wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:15 pm
 the ME jet is not a conversion.
True, but nor are the X-Cub, Spartan 12W, or Waco N I’d previously posted. Really, that cabin Waco came from the factory that way!

I won’t admit to outright cheating but I do stack the deck in my favour when practical.
Fair but you quoted my “a conventional gear conversion” above the picture.

I dislike yokes much more than where the third wheel is.

I know I’m all messed up but I don’t want a steering wheel like thing to control the airplane I’m flying. It’s unnatural and might confuse my subconscious mind.
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Colonel
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Slick Goodlin wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:50 pm
Colonel wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:45 am
 At this point, only an accomplished sadist ...
Is there such a thing?
Oh yeah.

Anyways a DC-3 on floats is really not a nosewheel conversion, and on skiis it's tailwheel too of course.

I shall expect the four horsemen of the apocalypse to come trotting out when I see a C-46 with a nosewheel.

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