mike siggins
Airman
yes every body has a diferent opinion but what happens when u lose cabin pressure
Ad: This forum contains affiliate links to products on Amazon and eBay. More information in Terms and rules
You put on an oxygen mask and keep flying, just like you would in any other type of pressurized aircraft that looses cabin pressure. A pressurized aircraft will only maintain cabin pressue to a 10 - 12,000 foot environment anyway.yes every body has a diferent opinion but what happens when u lose cabin pressure
Did they lower the cabin pressure when they got near the combat area.
The B-29 was quiet fast. I think the Antons would sweat to catch it. Bombing from 30,000 was not much of a problem in the ETO, isn't?
In terms of aircraft with high altitude capabilities the Luftwaffe was in a better position than the Japanese services.
Especially from early 1944 onwards the DB605AS with an oversized supercharger was available for the Me 109G5AS whie cryogenic nitrous oxide (GM1) was available around 2 years earlier and usable on both FW190 and Me 109. These were field retrofits in most instances.
Some of the more advanced two stage supercharger types were retarded from production to allow greater overall production of simpler types with improved supercharger hydrodynamics but one can immagine these types being advanced if the need to deal with the B-29 arose. No doubt the B29 is a harder aircraft to deal with but also twice as expensive as the B17.
For the record a Me 109G5ASM with 3 x 20mm guns and 2 x 13.2mm guns could do 390 mph at 9000m/30,000ft at which point the MW50 has switched of. The Me 109G5AS is available from about March 1944. The B29 is capable of 350mph at this altitude. Top speed of the Me 109G5ASM was about 405mph at a slightly lower altitude. The MW50 tank was meant to also function as a armoured cryogenic GM1 tank and it is likely this would be carried instead to offer a significantly higher speed. The Me 109K4 was capable of speeds of 444mph from about October 1944.
http://kurfurst.org/Performance_tests/109G14_PBLeistungen/files/PBG14_LS_SNplusMW50.jpg
So the Luftwaffe would be getting intercepts though it would be tougher and at altitudes favourable to allied types.
I can also see the Wasserfall SAM receiving priority over the V2/A4. It was test launching at the end of the war but might have seen service if it rather than the V2 received resources. It was designed to engage a 2g target at over 15000m/50,000ft.
yes every body has a diferent opinion but what happens when u lose cabin pressure
I do not have further information at the moment making this just a claim, but I remember reading that the decision to deploy the B-29 to India and China was at least partly politically motivated as President Roosevelt wanted to involve china more actively in the Allied effort to defeat Imperial Japan.
Anyone feel free to confirm or refute my claim.
yes every body has a diferent opinion but what happens when u lose cabin pressure
There was the case of the 737 which lost part of its roof structure and a flight attendant was blown out but the aircraft survived to land safely.
On mythbusters they pressured an aircraft and shot bullet holes in it and even small explosive charges and the explosive decompression didn't happen.
Explosive decompression probably only occurs with catastrophic failure of the aircraft which meant the aircraft was probably in such a bad way that it was going down anyways.
The B29's were based in China simply because the Mariana's werent even taken yet. After operations started from the Mariana's, the superior logistical situation meant the China Based bomb groups became less and less relevant.
All good provided the LW "would have" been able to produce the number of aircraft and more importantly the fuel to deal with B-29.
There are number of circumstances in which the Luftwaffe is well suplied with fuel:
1 Field Marshall Halder gets his way and Army group North take Moscow leading to total collapse of the Soviet Union
2 Operation case blue is effective and the Germans take the strategic Oil fields of the Caucuses and Baku.
3 Erwin Rommel smashes his way through the middle East Up through Iraq and takes the Caucasian oil fields.
(Just having secure enigma codes might have done that)
4 Albert Speer authorises greater precautions to be taken in hardening and dispersing synthetic oil refineries.
All of these nearly succeeded, having oil fields of such a scale would have revolutionised German supply logistics and tank warfare.