"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk @See My Sig.com wrote in message
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"Peter Dohm" wrote in message
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With the quest for efficiency, in recent years, most of the newer
tri-gear designs have featured free castering nose wheels. That has
certainly reduced the aerodynamic drag of the nose wheel;

Moving it to the back and reducing the size by a factor of 4 would do even
more...

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Not quite as much as I had personally supposed, but still a usefull amount.

All the same, I'm learning to love the tailwheels.