Originally Posted by
Bergerie1
A great aeroplane with no handing vices at all - as opposed to some earlier jet types I have flown. The only thing one had to take care over was not to taxi to fast round tight corners on wet surfaces. In these conditions the nose wheel adhesion was a little limited and would scrub. So long as one entered the turn really slowly there was no problem.
Especially on the paint at the runway threshold. The 747 does not seem to have a huge amount of weight on the nosegear depending on the CG.
Take a look at this video of a Pan Am landing with no body gear extended which is not that far aft of the wing gear(landing at 5:30, tips onto tail at 7:00). So only that body gear seems to be keeping the nose down in certain circumstances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl_wXfSwRzM