(IIRC military aircraft were designed to maintain
lower cabin pressure than airliners, to limit the damage
amplification following a hit)

I was pondering this possibility also, but then I remembered that the
B-36 was supposed to be *depressurized* when the plane moved into a
combat situation.


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