Greg Boeser
1st Sergeant
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Bulging sidewall and threads showing. Should be good for another winter.Just for clarification on the image of the guys changing a B-29's wheel. The jacking point is shown in this image. The jack is inserted from the front and hand cranked, lifting the oleo off the ground, but keeping the aircraft level-ish. The only stipulation is that the park brake is released before jacking. Turnaround, at a guess should be around 15-20 mins to do the job, depending on how the wheel is fastened to the axle, the tyre being deflated on removal as standard, at least, that's the way it's done on modern aircraft.
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The left hand outboard wheel definitely needs changing on this aircraft...
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Using aerial photo's to make maps. Photogrammetry. Those units were in high demand in Asia and the Pacific due to a lack of knowledge of the vast swaths of the islands and jungles.Mapping = Recon unit, am I right?
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Many thanks, Mate.Using aerial photo's to make maps. Photogrammetry. Those units were in high demand in Asia and the Pacific due to a lack of knowledge of the vast swaths of the islands and jungles.
I've heard a lot of the maps circulating in the Pacific were from National Geographic and not all that complete or accurate!Many thanks, Mate.
I suspect the wing jacks are for other stuff, maybe they are doing gear swings or something, but you can see under the axle in silhouette is a jack, which they would have used during a wheel change.
And yes I am used to using the strut jack to change a tire or brake.
The size of those tires remind me of the 727 tires I used to change. The only difference is we used to use a tire jack to lift them high enough off the ramp to slide over the axle & brakes. It does look like the 2 tech's are holding the wheel assembly in place while the 3rd guys is messing with what I suppose is the outer bearing and wheel nut? It would be interesting to see how the older Boeing product secured the wheel on the axle.
It's a B-17G. Not a B-17J.