Depends on where you try. Large stretches of the reef flat are smooth
enough to ride a bicycle on. Other parts are pitted and quite jagged. Today,
the area where former residents say they once saw airplane wreckage is
marginal. The Electra had nice big fat tires. I’d say that you’d probably
blow the tires but wouldn’t necessarily collapse the gear or flip the airplane.
What it was like in that area 60 years ago is anybody’s guess.
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