A Lieberman wrote:
: On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:55:37 GMT, Matt Whiting wrote:

: I've not heard that before either, but I'd never heard "check gear down"
: before I flew into a military field either. And this was in a 182 which
: made it even more comical.

: I got this on my Beech Sundowner at GLH which is a commercial airport.
: Tower got a chuckle when I replied "fixed and welded."
: Maybe he thought I was a Sierra, who knows :-)

I was a passenger in my friend's Swift - tailwheel retract. We were landing
at Bridgport, perhaps - I can't remember. On short final tower called out
"Swift go around! Swift go around go around!". We did a go-around. On
downwind we asked "why did you have us go around?" Tower said "your nosegear
was not down!" We were laughing pretty hard, and eventually my friend
managed to say "Tower, the little wheel of this airplane is on the *back*".
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Aaron C.