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Tricycle gear is a type of aircraft undercarriage, or landing gear, arranged in a tricycle fashion. The tricycle arrangement has a single nose wheel in the front, and two or more main wheels slightly aft of the center of gravity. Tricycle gear aircraft are the easiest to take-off, land and taxi, and consequently the configuration is the most widely used on aircraft.
Several early aircraft had primitive tricycle gear, notably very early Antoinette planes and the Curtiss Pushers of the pre-World War I Pioneer Era of aviation. Waldo Waterman's 1929 tailless Whatsit was one of the first to have a steerable nose wheel.
Usage examples of "tricycle landing gear".
Unlike the Thunderbird Falcons that balanced lightly on their tricycle landing gear, the fully-armed F-16 were slung with Sidewinder missiles, wing tanks, and huge belly tanks that barely cleared the ground under the plane's fuselage.
He recognized it as an ultra-light, a pusher-engined, high-winged monoplane with tricycle landing gear and tandem seats for two people.
He recognized it as an ultralight, a pusher-engined, high-winged monoplane with tricycle landing gear and tandem seats for two people.
The ship rested parallel to the ground on its tricycle landing gear.
He'd been training with a tricycle landing gear and I didn't want to confuse him with a different landing technique.
The aircraft stood tall on long, seemingly fragile tricycle landing gear.
It was a weird bird, sitting on what looked to Charley like a very fragile tricycle landing gear.
Now it sat on its tricycle landing gear amid the other classic machinery of Pitt's collection.
Then he began to hear a thin, high-pitched whine which quickly escalated into a howl as, all of a sudden, the SR-75 raced out of the darkness, its tricycle landing gear barely touching the ground as it hurtled past them.
A high-wing, twin-engine plane sat on squat tricycle landing gear on the concrete apron in front of the hangar.
There was a slight thump as the tricycle landing gear extended under the aircraft and locked into position, and a shrill hydraulic whine as the brake flaps slid out of the trailing edge of the wings.
The transport ship seemed very large, suddenly, standing as it did on a concrete apron with its tricycle landing gear let down.