Originally Posted by
Max Tow
The brakes go with a tailwheel, if I understand correctly, so getting far too complex for me!
That's correct, and these aircraft also had shorter radius rods which moved the wheels forward (about a foot, I think) to reduce the risk of nose-over when using the brakes. As a rwsult they were also slightly less directionally stable on the ground (more prone to ground-loops) than the tail-skid versions.
PDR