Originally Posted by Timbo

I'm pretty sure on the 747's they put little roller blade wheels on the bottom of the outboard engines just for that purpose!

I know in the KC135 (A Models) I think the number they taught us was about 8 degrees bank, more than that you'd scrape a pod.

BUT...then they put the bigger (fatter) engines on it (the R Models) so the 8 degrees must have been reduced. I always loved the 757 because it had such long legs and a big rudder, (and no outboard engines!) you could really lay it over in a good crosswind, touch down one main at a time, just like a J3!

I was engineer on a 727 one day when the F/O got a wingtip in a good crosswind! Not hard to do with heavily swept wing and short legs, it was a lousy crosswind airplane. Most guys would just crab all the way to the flare, then kick it and hope. A wet runway always helped to 'slide it on' if you were still a little sideways at impact.

As my IOE Capt. said to me..."Don't try to get fancy with it, just put it down!" (like this?)

Drunk pilot.... Piper super Cub - YouTube