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Yaw stabilizing a tail dragger idea (during landing)

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zk-jkw

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Just throwing an idea out there. Having no taildragger time and being healthy anxious about flying them... I was wondering if anyone has ever implemented a system to control yaw during the landing roll.
The ways I was thinking off the top of my head were:
-active: i.e. gyro stabilized or mechanical control system on the rudder
-active differential braking
-passive: a drogue chute
-fuselage airbrakes: producing a yaw moment from asymmetric drag due to side-slip?
With the obvious limitation of passive system if there is a crosswind...

Anybody heard of this before?
 
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