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A taildragger or conventional gear plane has a tailwheel and sits in a nose up attitude on the ground. This makes visibility a little more difficult while on the ground, it also makes ground handling a little more difficult. A tricycle gear plane has a nosewheel and eliminates the bad parts of a taildragger but sacrifices the ability to be used on unimproved surfaces like bush planes use. There are more advantages and disadvantages than these but they are sometimes opinions.
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A nose heavy airplane flies poorly, a tail heavy plane flies once.
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