Official B-29 Doc Restoration Thread

[Chappie]

Fantastic video. It's gonna be quite a day when DOC takes to the air again.


Chappie

[dusttinbound]

Looks like the Kansas Highway Patrol came out and weighed Doc today according to their twitter account. 54,825 pounds without fuel.

[markboss]

Engine Pre-oil video!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQUUSNd ... e=youtu.be

[Michel Lemieux]

Soooo cool.....

Tks for sharing.

Question.

What is that large hydraulic motor assembly attached at the bottom of the left main landing gear.

Front gear for steering.....OK, but I do not get the purpose of it with the linkage under it.

Tks again.

Michel

[maxum96]

Soooo cool.....

Tks for sharing.

Question.

What is that large hydraulic motor assembly attached at the bottom of the left main landing gear.

Front gear for steering.....OK, but I do not get the purpose of it with the linkage under it.

Tks again.

Michel

I'll assume you're asking about the nose gear. I believe that's a damper as the nose wheel on a B-29 has no steering and free casters.

[Michel Lemieux]

Nope, the left main.

It looks like a steering actuator just like on the nose gear.......but it is on the main left wing landing gear.

Look at the video at 0.58 M.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22uDyJfrLcU

No trace of the same system on the right gear.

Tks for the curiosity.

Michel

[Brad]

Nope, the left main.

It looks like a steering actuator just like on the nose gear.......but it is on the main left wing landing gear.

Look at the video at 0.58 M.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22uDyJfrLcU

No trace of the same system on the right gear.

Tks for the curiosity.

Michel

Michel,

At 58 Seconds on the video you are looking at the nose gear on the right of the screen and the right main gear on the left of the screen. That is the shimmy damper on the nose gear that you are asking about. There is no nose wheel steering.

[maxum96]

Nope, the left main.

It looks like a steering actuator just like on the nose gear.......but it is on the main left wing landing gear.

Look at the video at 0.58 M.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22uDyJfrLcU

No trace of the same system on the right gear.

Tks for the curiosity.

Michel

Nowhere in the video is the left main gear seen. If you watch the right main gear, it retracts forward towards the nose of the aircraft (as it does in all B-29's). The nose wheel retracts aft towards the tail in a B-29. So if the gear with the damper in the video was a main gear it would retract forward, not aft as it does.

[Michel Lemieux]

Duhhhhhhh..........

Tks Brad & Max!!!!!!

Wrong perspective.......

[xb70]

Thought you might enjoy this article by a friend of mine in our hometown paper. We live where Doc was "rescued" from back in 1998.

http://www.news-ridgecrest.com/news/sto ... 0000003711

[Pat Carry]

Thought you might enjoy this article by a friend of mine in our hometown paper. We live where Doc was "rescued" from back in 1998.

http://www.news-ridgecrest.com/news/sto ... 0000003711

she has come a long way!

[B-29 Watcher]

FAA, Was there today, see facebook page.



https://www.facebook.com/DocsFriends

[B-29 Watcher]

More pictures here is there comment at:

https://www.facebook.com/DocsFriends


PHOTOS: Our B-29 restoration team is putting the finishing touches on gauges, avionics, hydraulic lines, brakes and other engine details. Closer and closer to flight...

[menards]

when is doc getting evicted from the hanger? I thought that was an issue?

[menards]

https://vimeo.com/35834451

100 days to "flight worthy"....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3_IkHkhYWw

How long was N3299F flown for? And is there any video of Hawg Wild being flown out of china lake as well?