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Re: B-29 Peachy Serial #: 44-62022

Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:28 am

Skip Cregier, the pilot, told me about having Trouble keeping Hawg Wild on the runway when they first started ground operations at China Lake. Skip talked about having to use large amounts of differential power just to keep her going semi straight.

They were pulling their hair out trying to figure out what the problem was. It turned out to be too much air pressure in the nose wheel tires. Not enough of a foot print or traction. After they brought the pressure down the problem was solved. Who would have thought that it would have made that much of a difference.

Here is a web page I made on Hawg Wild in case you might be interested:

http://www.twinbeech.com/B-29HawgWild.htm

Taigh

Re: B-29 Peachy Serial #: 44-62022

Wed Feb 25, 2015 12:40 pm

Wow! I haven't looked at your Its Hawg Wild page in a long time. You've added a lot of great pictures and stories to it. I wish a documentary had been made about them bringing this plane out of the desert and flying it to Duxford. Its a Kee Bird level story with a happy ending...

here's some more great stuff on It's Hawg Wild...

http://keyproductionstv.com/hawgwild.html
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