<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by michswiss:
In my personal experience the A319 does tend to 'crab' more than other, larger airframes such as the A320, A321, B75, B73, etc. I've not noticed the landings being any harder than other equipment, so I'd chalk that up to the pilot.
A side comment about 747s. I've noticed any number of times that the nose gear is quite noisy in the forward cabin. Lots of creaking and grinding during taxi and gear up/down actions. It also feels like it transmits every bump and crack in the runway into the floor.</font>
Is on the older 200 series 747's or the newer ones as well? Not really noticed it, but will keep an "ear" out on my next trip on a 747 in a couple of weeks. Noisiest time I had in a 747 was when we were hit by lighting during take off from Heathrow. Everyone was pretty quiet after that one!