B 29 "It's Hawg Wild" went from a tow truck for targets to 23 years storage at China Lake, to just firing up and flying all the way to England and a museum, without an overhaul. It was cheaper to fly than to be dissassembled and shipped

from 1956 to 1979 she sat. About 30 other B 29s were left after the many years when the 29s were used as targets of weapons testing

Jack Kern and his company Aeroservices of Tucson was contracted to get the B-29 flyable and to get her safely to Duxford.

1st she was flown to Tucson Arizona, then to Flint, Michigan, Flint to Loring Air Force Base in Maine, Loring to Gander, Newfoundland, Gander to Sonderstrom, Greenland, Sonderstrom to Keflavik, Iceland, Keflavik to Mildenhall Air Force Base in England, Mildenhall to Duxford where she is today. (and now you know the long airstrips from A to B)

the flights were not limited by fuel, or weather, they were set by the amount of oil leaking out of the #3 engine. 75 gallons just from Tucson to Flint

Jack Kern and his company Aeroservices of Tucson had flown three B-29's out of China Lake; one for Dave Talichet (now at March Field Museum), one for the CAF (FiFi) and Hawg Wild for the Imperial War Museum in England.

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