"Big John" wrote in message ...
:
: Jim
:
: The U-10 I flew had the castering wheels. All U-10's the Airforce had
: had castering wheels. You could land with them locked or in castering
: mode.
:
: After years of kicking out the crab just before touch down it was a
: strange feeling to go ahead and touch down in the crab and roll
: straight down the runway with bird cocked into the cross wind.
:
: Was not easy to taxi in castering mode so as soon as you got off
: runway you relocked them so you could taxi back to parking area
: comfortably.
:
: Most landings were in fixed mode and castering primarily used when
: checking a new pilot out in bird.
:
: Fly safe and have a nice day.
:
: Big John

OK, the Courier...I remember folks talking about that ability...