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Old 11th Feb 2017, 21:22
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foxmoth
 
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"Light" vintage taildraggers were designed to be three pointed, and in the early days of aviation intended to be landed into wind. Land across the wind at your peril. Tail skids were better than wheels at the back and a cstoring tail wheel can be helped by a " lock". I never wheeled the Hornet Moth on - never!
HMM! I was told the Hornet was hard to land in a crosswind, also told the same with the Leopard and the Auster (amongst others), personally I have never had any problem with any of these, and for a crosswind I wheel them on - as long as you have the tail up you have rudder control, the trick is, that as soon as you reach full forward stick keeping the tail up you then make a positive control input to lower the tail and the moment it is on the ground you then put in full up elevator, I have even managed a Tiger Moth with skid on hard in a crosswind with this method, though you are virtually at a stop by the time the tail goes down on the Tiger!
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