Antarctica
Airman
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- May 20, 2023
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The Soviets requested B-29s under Lend Lease on several occasions during WW2 and were turned down as was Britain IIRC.It took the Soviet Union three years to reverse engineer the B-29 to produce the Tu 4. First flight 1947.
That is fortunate, they would have flown on the wrong side of the sky.Given the British clutch and gearbox systems at the time it is doubtful whether Luftwaffe drivers could have
got Lancs into top gear to get up enough speed to take off anyway.
Plus when the MOT runs out they wouldn't be allowed over England anyway.That is fortunate, they would have flown on the wrong side of the sky.
Lancs dont run without tea, this plan hasnt been thought through.Plus when the MOT runs out they wouldn't be allowed over England anyway.
Germany had several opportunities to repair & fly crashed Lancasters but decided that the technology wasn't as good as their own. The only Lanc they did fly was repaired by the Lufthansa maintenance depot & used to drop collected "window" to test their night-fighter radar.
As they suffered through-out the war from a lack of big 4-engined bombers, what if they had repaired several of the early captured ones & maybe started copying the design as their long-range bomber ?
The US population was about 1/3 German ethnicity. A cabal of Deutsche Amerikanische Bund members in the upper ranks of the military secretly screens the troops for pro-German sympathizers, assigns them to Iceland, and allows the Germans to land their planes there. They hope that a successful bombing of New York will set off a panic which they can exploit to sieze control of the country.Iceland had Allied Naval Bases and Airfields with active air and naval patrols.
Absolutely no chance a Luftwaffe aircraft was going to get near Iceland, let alone land there, unmolested.