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    Waldo Waterman

    I never heard of the name Waldo Waterman till I researched the first nose wheel airplane and his name came up . The plane is in the Smithsonian . He also made an airplane that had a detachable wing that you could drive like a car . Google his name - interesting read !

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    Quote Originally Posted by skyranger View Post
    I never heard of the name Waldo Waterman till I researched the first nose wheel airplane and his name came up . The plane is in the Smithsonian . He also made an airplane that had a detachable wing that you could drive like a car . Google his name - interesting read !
    If you are talking about his 1929 model there were tricycle aircraft long before that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Stadt View Post
    If you are talking about his 1929 model there were tricycle aircraft long before that.

    True... one of the early tricycle equipped flying machines was the 1908 Curtiss June Bug...

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    Busy Little Shop, you beat me to the punch- good get. Curtiss's June Bug predates Waterman's Arrowbile by almost 30 years so I don't know why there is any confusion about first tricycle geared aircraft.

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    Thanks for the information . I wonder why the tail-wheel aircraft stuck around for so long ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by skyranger View Post
    Thanks for the information . I wonder why the tail-wheel aircraft stuck around for so long ?
    Because there are still male pilots?

    (ducks and runs for cover behind the tricycle-gear airplane...)
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    Quote Originally Posted by skyranger View Post
    Thanks for the information . I wonder why the tail-wheel aircraft stuck around for so long ?
    Well, consider that taildraggers have more prop clearance, and a nose wheel tends to be relatively fragile. Another factor may be that a LOT of those early aircraft had tail skids, instead of brakes, which wouldn't work as well on the nose. After all, most strips weren't paved.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Stadt View Post
    If you are talking about his 1929 model there were tricycle aircraft long before that.
    If y'all go back and re-read Skyranger's original post he does not make any claim that Waterman's aircraft was the first, just that the name came up during his research.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skyranger View Post
    I never heard of the name Waldo Waterman till I researched the first nose wheel airplane and his name came up .
    Ronald Franck, this is Skyrangers OP. I'm positive he says his was the first tricycle gear. Unless of course you're a subscriber to the new national sport of denying what's undeniably in front of you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Floatsflyer View Post
    Ronald Franck, this is Skyrangers OP. I'm positive he says his was the first tricycle gear. Unless of course you're a subscriber to the new national sport of denying what's undeniably in front of you.
    Skyranger's comment could have been worded better, but I don't think his intent was to imply that Waterman was the first.

    If I google "President George Washington" and Donald Trump's name is mentioned in one of the hits, that does not mean they are the same person.

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