I am often asked why the wheels on a Bücker lean outwards (camber) so much. I remember hearing (though I don't remember where) that it is to compensate for the angle of the gear legs, reducing the stresses on the landing gear. It was not obvious to me how this would work. Recently though I may have had an epiphany. I don't know why it has taken me so many years to realize this, but I believe that what is happening is that the weight of the aircraft causes the axles to want to bend upwards, but the camber causes a force in the opposite direction which partially cancel this out.
If the above is true (and I think we know Anderson well enough to say that everything he did was for a reason) the camber is helping to overcome what Jesus Ballester called "The Achilles heel of the Bücker". Is there any correlation between axle failure and wheel camber?
We have some extremely qualified aeronautical engineers in the Bücker community. What do you think? Is this reasonable?