Hi,
One of the great things about designing a plane from scratch is that one doesn’t have to (for example) choose between it being a tail dragger or a nosewheel configuration. You can quite happily have both for the price of one.
All that’s required is to swap left for right. The bolt holes are circled in red, BTW. The attachments line up either way. In the accompanying pic, I’ve swapped the sides, and with no (or very little) effort, the TCF is transformed from a nosewheel to a taildragger. No re-routing of brake cables, In fact, apart from physically swapping the left and right hand sides, all one has to do is to unscrew the mount for the nosewheel, and fit the tailwheel to the hard points already built into the fuselage. Neither nose nor tail wheel are steerable, so that’s all one has to do.
Oh – the TCF is equipped with huge tundra tyres all round. I’ve not actually fitted them yet, but I think they are bigger than shown in the sketch. So no need for suspension.
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