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FlyinHeel
You do manage to start a few interesting discussions.
Dragging your tail in trike aircraft is not uncommon. It occurs more often on landing in small aircraft, as the aformentioned soft field variety. You probably won't even notice due to the other noise in the aircraft. The skid/ tiedown point is there to prevent structural damage due to minor scrapes, and the ring on the Cessnas does that as well as the Piper skid. But even the heavy metal guys have a built in skid. With wear marks. Check it out the next time you taxi near one of the big boys. They tend to get nailed on takeoff, since they rotate suddenly at a high angle.
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