with what, you couldn't hit that glass bottle with my air rifle, i managed to hit it forst time, and i can hit a table at around 1000yds................
I suppose a Lanc could have dropped the bomb . . . it just would have been destroyed in the resultant explosion. Ever the higher-flying and faster B-29 had to initiate a diving turn to escape the blast radius.
And there was a very high chance that the -29 was going to be destroyed, even with the diving turn, or irradiated to the point of death for all the occupants...
So what chance did the Lanc have? As I've mentioned before, the RAF had serious doubts about trying to use the Lincoln as a nuclear bomber. Certainly the Lancaster would have been even more suspect.