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Subject: Re: B-29 question
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 07:57:54 -0800, wrenden <wrenden@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:04:19 +0000, Stormin' Norman
><norman@schwarzkopf.invalid> wrote:
>
>>I seem to remember that during the war, when the B-29 production lines
>>were running at capacity, it supposedly took 5 days to assemble one
>>aircraft, from the first part until it was rolled off the line and out
>>of the hangar.
>>
>>I tried to locate data to confirm this, but came up craps.
>>
>>Does anyone have any definitive information about this?
>Is it true the B-29 did not have nose gear steering?
That is true, the aircraft was steered on the ground using
differential braking, throttle control and, to some extent, the
rudder. I am not positive why this was the case, I think it was a
combination of the extra weight and complexity associated with nose
wheel steering.
Maybe someone else here knows the actual engineering reasons for the
chosen configuration.
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