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You misunderstand. I mean the TWIST forces and the MAIN GEAR. The nose gear is not the issue.
See what I mean?...the diameter of the wheel sets are not that great in comparison to say the total load of 400 plus tonnes shared across the set.
Think Lufthansa had a failure other week on a B74 at FRA. The main gear struts take a HELL of a twist load. Bally dance pirouet stuff. See?
In fact it would be interesting to learn how FedEx adresses this issue at Memphis. I would bet they use nice big arc turns...
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