tail wheel

British  

noun

1. a wheel fitted to the rear of a vehicle, esp the landing wheel under the tail of an aircraft

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Example Sentences

I kept the nose up so that the tail wheel touched down first.

From The Verge • Jun. 24, 2018

Her Piper Cub, she recently told researchers, was golden yellow and had “a tail wheel, so you had two main wheels under the wings and one under the tail.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2015

"We're getting so close," said Stafford, "all you have to do is put your tail wheel down and we're there."

From Time Magazine Archive

We couldn't get the flaps down or the tail wheel either.

From Time Magazine Archive

It hit once more and Dave felt the tail wheel catch on something and send the ship plunging crazily off to the right.

From Dave Dawson at Dunkirk by Bowen, Robert Sydney