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tail wheel
- Definição1
- A wheel located at the aft end of the fuselage and the aft of the main landing gear. Airplanes with such wheel are referred to as tail-wheel type or conventional landing gear airplane.
- Fonte1
- KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
- Fonte2
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION. Helicopter flying handbook (FAA-H8083-21A). Washington, DC: FAA, 2012.
- Contexto
- Using coordinated throttle and flight control inputs, balance the gyroplane on the maingear without the nose wheel or tail wheel in contact with the surface.
- Subárea1
- Aircraft Structure
- Narrower Term
- tail-wheel landing gear
- Português
- roda de bequilha