Okay, I admit it. I was introduced to flying in taildraggers. Almost by definition, that dates me to the middle of the last century. Today, there are a diminishing number of conventional-gear airplanes still in production, most targeted at the bush plane or aerobatics markets. When it came time to go shopping for that first airplane in 1966, the least expensive types available had the third wheel mounted beneath the elevator. Most of the immediate post-war candidates were built before 1950, when there were few nosewheel-equipped general aviation airplanes available.
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