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Meaning of "tailskid"
tailskid (noun) - a device fitted to an aircraft or vehicle to prevent its tail from scraping along the ground, typically consisting of a skid or small wheel at the rear
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- A piece of metal or wood used, like a tailwheel, to support the tail of an aircraft on the ground.
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There was a short tailskid under the fin.
The undercarriage was completed with a tailskid.
The tailskid was steerable and sprung.
This conventional undercarriage was completed with a tailskid.
The tailskid had its own shock absorber.
Its fixed landing gear used a tailskid.
A small tailskid completed the undercarriage.
This was solved by changing it to a conventional tailskid configuration.
At the rear the tailskid was vertically sprung.
Later versions had a tailwheel that replaced the tailskid.
Its tall wooden tailskid was also rubber cord sprung.
There was a leaf spring tailskid.
It had a tailskid at the rear.
Its landing gear was essentially of the tailskid type.
A tailskid was fitted to allow for shorter landing runs on grass airfields.
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It also had a small tailskid.
The tailskid also had a Messier shock absorber and was steerable.
At the rear there was a tailskid.
The aircraft had a fixed tailskid landing gear and was powered by a Siemens-Halske radial engine.
He burned his tailskid.
The tailskid was made of two U-shaped pieces of rattan cane.
There was a laminated tailskid.
Aft, the tailskid was sprung steel.
There was a small tailskid.
The tailskid was rubber-sprung.
There was a sprung tailskid.
It had a simple, fixed tailskid undercarriage.
The undercarriage consisted of a single enclosed skid and a small spring tailskid.
Rubber cord shock absorbers were used and the tailskid was also mounted elastically.
The main undercarriage was a single-axle arrangement and with a tailskid.
The aircraft immediately experienced undercarriage and tailskid failures, requiring redesign of those components.
The undercarriage retracted outwards into the undersides of the wings while the tailskid was fixed.
It had a conventional landing gear with a tailskid and a crew of four.
There was a fixed conventional undercarriage with mainwheels on V-form struts, assisted by a tailskid.
The landing gear shock strut was extended and featured a tailskid versus a tailwheel.
The undercarriage was of the divided type, with wide track main wheels and a tailskid.
The Astra-Protopopescu had a conventional, fixed tailskid undercarriage.
The Nimbus has a retractable monowheel undercarriage, assisted by a tailskid.
The IP-1 was a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane with retractable tailskid undercarriage and an open cockpit.
At the rear there was an oleo-damped, steerable tailskid.
There were also detachable panels allowing easy access to the tailskid shock absorber.
The undercarriage is fixed, with a rear tailskid.
A common alteration to the IV series was the replacement of the tailskid with a tailwheel.
The C. 25S has a fixed monowheel undercarriage, assisted by a forward mounted main skid and small tailskid.
In landplane configuration the C.39 had a fixed tailskid undercarriage.
The full, rounded, balanced rudder reached down to the keel, behind a small tailskid.
There was a spring-steel tailskid.
The Astir CS Jeans was similar to the CS 77, but had a fixed mainwheel and a tailskid.
There was a small, sprung tailskid.
The F. IX was a three-engine, high-wing monoplane of conventional configuration, equipped with tailskid undercarriage.
