B-29s over Germany

[FLYBOYJ]

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.

WOULD HAVE COULD HAVE SHOULD HAVE - PLEASE STAY ON SUBJECT.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

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 737 that lost its roof had a major structural failure due to corrosion within the pressure vessel. Because of the operating environment and age of the aircraft, corrosion was settling in areas not subjected to routine inspections. As a result all commercial airliners were required to comply with a "Corrosion Preventative Control Program" or CPCP that implemented a whole bunch of NDI (mainly ultrasonic) inspection requirements in bulkheads and skin lap joints where this corrosion was being found.

 

[MikeGazdik]

Plus, the life of the 737 is in decades, whereas the life of a wartime B-29 is months.

 

[syscom3]

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[Readie]

Interesting points.
The B29 was without doubt the 'next generation' bomber and its higher faster capacity would hopefully have reduced the appalling allied aircrew loss rate in the traditional heavies that slogged it out till cessation of hostilities.
The extra bomb load would be a bonus of course.
Cheers
John