Why should you have to test it, the B-29 could do everything the Lancaster could, and do it better. The B-29 was the best bomber of the war, better than the B-17, better than the B-24, better than the Lancaster...the BEST BOMBER!
I really don't see how you can make that statement. The B-24 carried a larger load than the B-17, to a greater range, and at a faster speed. If the B-17 can be argued to have been better than the Lanc (and this site had shown that it can) that clearly it can be argued that the Lib was better than the Lanc.
I believe the B-29 was the best, with B-24 and Lanc drawing in second and the B-17 hanging behind in third. The B-24 was certainly not walked over by anything.
A bomber dogfight, Interestign. Now that CC says the P-38 was better, ans this opening a big can of worms, but put it agains the Mossie
We will need to limit that to the bomber versions of both say the level and Divebombers. I forget the version marks for the P-38 think it is the J that could do it, but the "Snoop Nose" was a clear nose for level bombing. Just a thought to talk about bombing
It was called the Droop Snoot. Several J and L versions were modified by rooming the guns, adding a bombardier/navigator station, bombsight, and considerable armor ballast to maintain the center of gravity. They flew at least a few true strategic bombing missions. Results were promising but the idea of there were simply too many B-17s and B-24s being produced not to use them.
The Mosquito was the superior of the two, it's combat record surely show it. They weren't bombing the target, they were bombing the parts of it.
Amiens Prison: West Wall, canteen, soldiers barracks and gate house....
I would be careful including those missions because (to me) they fall under the catergory of attack missions rather than true bombing missions (weren't they flown by FB marks anyway?). Anyway, the accuracy achieved had more to do with the profile of the missions that any particular attribute of the Mossie.
No, they are bombing missions. They dropped bombs, and didn't strafe or use rockets. The aircraft has to be able to do the mission, and the Mosquito did. And might I add with only one loss which was to a scrambled Fw-190.
If we think about the "best" bomber that should be B29 but unfortunately he appeared kind of too late. So my vote goes to the work horse B 17 followed very closely by the mighty Lancaster.