"The stick was pretty high on my improvements list. To heck with historical accuracy - there's no good way to pick up the tail when built as plans."

I think one way they did it in WWI was to lift the tail onto a steerable cart:

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You can see it in action in the Youtube documentary: 4 years of Thunder, Part 1, right around the 13 second mark