Originally Posted by threemiles
How can the nose gear go straight when the main gear curves around?
Well, I believe it is quit easy! Just compare Asymmetric thrust with a crosswind situation.
For instance take a look at this
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_7KMHWDgpw
and imagine the captain would not turn back the aircraft-nose hardly before touch-down. By chance you would get a similar “footprint” of the gears, wouldn`t you?