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Why the IL-76 has 4 nose wheels?

11.9k DC10AirTanker914  2.0 years ago

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IL-76LL

Why Ilyushin did this FR?

I mean is like a c-5 style nose landing gear

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    BTW: The IL-76LL was my new favourite plane among my fav russian planes!

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    @SyntheticL like an an-124

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    33.0k SyntheticL

    IL-76 lands nose first.

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    35.4k Icey21

    @HololiveFan yup

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    @IceCraftGaming I see so thats why the An-225 had 32 wheels and the A380 had 22 wheels

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    35.4k Icey21

    @HololiveFan basically, the more wheels a plane has, the more weight it was meant to carry

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    35.4k Icey21

    @HololiveFan yep

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    @IceCraftGaming even the main landing gear?

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    35.4k Icey21

    @HololiveFan it needs more wheels to better distribute the weight

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    @IceCraftGaming why weight?

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    35.4k Icey21

    weight

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