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    Default Tail Dragger or Tricycle?

    Just curious what your opinions are. I love the looks of a tail dragger, but I know they are harder to handle. I assume it depends on the strip you would be flying from as well.

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    Hi Travis,
    This one has been somewhat drug through the dirt (no punn intended)
    If you do a search on the site you should find quite a few... opinions
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    I think in Texas "nose draggers" are outlawed. Now that I started a fight, I overcame my lack of eye foot coordination and have about 250 hours in my taildragger Kitfox. I just thought the taildragger was esthetically pleasing to me.

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    Pete, sorry to hear they outlawed nose draggers in Texas. Rocky and Paul Z might want to check into that before the fines start piling up.



    I do love the tri-gear Kitfox's.
    Papa's Super Sport.jpg

    But those taildraggers do look sexy. The joy and dilemma of choices.
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    CLSSY56- you should build it as a taildragger. Just get some training and you will be fine. You can go anywhere you desire, and anywhere your skill level allows, in a taildragger Kitfox. Besides, they're convertible.


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    So many possible replies, so little time. Built mine with the little wheel in the front, happy I did so.
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    What is wrong with Nose Draggers? With the amount of money tied up in these toys why would anyone want to risk it to a Ground Loop. I had a C120 for about 5 years, and although it was quite a bit cheaper than my Kitfox, I still always worried about a GHround Loop. Also, in some of the wind we have been contending with I would have never take my old C120 1606V in the cross winds we have been having. Also, I really like 703KA, she flys great and is easy to land what more can you ask!

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    They have not outlawed Nose Draggers in GARLAND, TEXAS
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    Radial Super Sport.jpg

    CLSSY56- you should build it as a taildragger. Just get some training and you will be fine. You can go anywhere you desire, and anywhere your skill level allows, in a taildragger Kitfox. Besides, they're convertible.[/QUOTE]

    I must admit this is one AWSOME aircraft!
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    I kinda like them both.
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    The Little Wheel

    A dad and a son to a fly-in they spun
    Adventure was there and great fun in the air.
    The excitement was churning as the son he was learning
    At the ripe age of 4 there were questions and more
    If these planes can fly, then daddy, why cant I?
    Do planes flap their wings like the birds in the sky?
    The dad he was grinning as the son kept on spinning.
    But one question that came made the dad start to wane…
    The little wheel dad, look at that one and there
    That’s in the front and this ones back here!
    Dad stroked his chin as he started to think
    You see son, he said, not all planes are alike
    That’s called a taildragger and this one’s a trike.
    He went on to tell of the new planes and old
    In the differences landing in the differences told
    The up’s and the downs, the in’s and the outs
    Everything he could think of not to leave any doubts.
    And when he was done his sons eyes in the sky
    He was watching the air show with no worries of why.
    Dad then understood he was missing it some
    His analyzations interfered with the fun.
    Both planes they do fly and they land just as well
    And the pilots both have awesome stories to tell.
    Like planes we’re all different, we’re not all alike
    So please just get over it and go fly a trike.
    By: Dan Billingsley
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    Nice poem
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