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search A Mooney M20J with a retractable tricycle landing gear
Polish 3Xtrim 3X55 Trener with a fixed tricycle landing gear
taxiing.  Tricycle gear is a type of aircraft undercarriage, or
landing gear, arranged in a tricycle fashion. The tricycle
arrangement has one wheel in the front, called the nose wheel,
and two or more main wheels slightly aft of the center of
gravity. Because of the ease of operating tricycle gear aircraft
on the ground, the configuration is the most widely used on
aircraft.[1][2]  Several early aircraft had primitive tricycle
gear, notably the Curtiss Pushers of the early 1910s. Waldo
Waterman's 1929 tailless Whatsit was one of the first to have a
steerable nose wheel.[3]  Tricycle gear and taildraggers
compared[edit]  Tricycle gear is essentially the reverse of
conventional landing gear or taildragger. On the ground,
tricycle aircraft have a visibility advantage for the p