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tail wheel

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tail wheel
n
(Engineering / Aeronautics) a wheel fitted to the rear of a vehicle, esp the landing wheel under the tail of an aircraft


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This means fly just about every type of tail wheel airplane you can get your hands on, after appropriate check out with an instructor off course.
After Knight Rider 53 was parked and chocked for the crew-swap, he noticed that the tail wheel of the MH-60S was not aligned with the aircraft.
The damage report states that 50 to 75 percent of the underside of the fuselage between the wheel wells and the tail wheel was completely burned away.
 
 
 
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