What's the advantage of towing a taildragger from the front?
Tow from the rear up to a certain size?
Like this:
I have a T-6, and I have a "Tug" that fits under the tailwheel. It is MUCH easier to maneuver the plane around.
Towing from the nose wheel makes sense. Towing from the front in a tailwheel is a PITA.
There’s no doubt that using one of those cool robot tugs on a taildragger is silly easy, just scoop up the tailwheel and put it right where you want it. But to say that the old school front towbar on a T-6 is difficult? Nah. The hardest part about it is getting it hooked to the tug, and an extra person is a huge help for that. But, once hooked up to the tug, pushing a T-6 or P-51 back into a tight corner is is stone simple and easy to do, just gotta think about the geometry and pushing a triangle around.Come out to KRNM one day and watch him put his T-6 away and then watch the lineman put Chuck Hall's P51 away by towing from the front. It will sometimes take a new lineman 6 months to figure it out. Or, simply quit in frustration...