Looking through existing and past aircraft, the heaviest single axle bogie aircraft I found so far was the B727-200 Advanced, which had a MTOW of 95 tonnes, so pretty close to what the LR A321NEO is planning. Yet the B727-200 Advanced was not known for poor runway performance.
But it had nose wheel brakes as an option (I read somewhere that all B727-200s were built with nose wheel brakes but that those operators that didn't need them, had them removed)
Last edited by Gilles Hudicourt; 18th Feb 2015 at 11:42.