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Okay, so far nobody I have ever flown with has known the answer to this question. You know when you're sitting behind a 737 on the taxiway, and it looks "crooked", like it's always sitting at an angle, with the tail a few feet off the centerline even when they are rolling with the nosegear on the centerline? Why is that? I once heard a theory that the main gear trucks have a small amount of castor built into them. This kinda sounds like it could make sense to ease the sideload if you touchdown a bit crooked in a crosswind (can't drop the wing much and not scrape anything), but I mentioned this a guy who "was typed in the airplane" and he didn't know anything about it.
So whats the story?
So whats the story?