"Bob Gardner" writes:

The speed of the airplane at altitude has nothing to do with it. The
pressure differential between the cabin and the great outdoors is the only
factor...airspeed does not exert any pressure on the sides of the fuselage.

In the case of a bullet hole, it's probably not significant (although
I'd think the exit hole would would be somewhat ragged, and would
stick out into the airstream, so even that might). In the more
extreme cases, where they used shaped charges to blow out many square
feet of fuselage, I'd have thought the airstream would be a *very*
important factor in what happened next.
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