Tricycle Undercarriage
An undercarriage arrangement where the main wheels are set under the wing just behind the cog point, with the third wheel positioned under the nose just behind the engine.
Tricycle Undercarriage: A landing gear which incorporates a nosewheel and two mainwheels which are located behind the Centre of Gravity so that the aeroplane remains in approximately flying attitude when on the ground.
or not Pearse flew in any acceptable sense, and regardless of the exact date, his first aircraft was a remarkable invention embodying several far-sighted concepts: a monoplane configuration, wing flaps and rear elevator, tricycle undercarriage with ...
Changing to a tricycle undercarriage arrangement, initially as a fixed undercarriage on the fifth prototype aircraft, then a fully retractable one on the sixth and succeeding prototypes, immediately corrected all of these problems.
 See also: Propeller, Aircraft, Undercarriage, Power, Take-off
  
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