TyroPicard Even if you point a 747 vertically upwards the wing gear is nowhere near 4 metres above the body gear. From the side, on the ground, each pair of bogies looks like this: OOOO no overlap but not much of a fore/aft gap.
I agree - as I said in my post it seems almost impossible for the outer bogies to have cleared berm while the rear bogies were firmly on the ground at the base of the berm. I have no answer.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/664530/m
Below a photo of all fully extended bogies is superimposed on the photo of the berm. The width of the tires, the spacing between the wheels on each bogie, and the spacing between the bogies all match. I have no answer as to why the outer bogie ruts do not show up
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