Hey fellas, I'm (planning) on making a video game, set in the late 1950s, where Britain, the USSR and the USA each have their own space programmes, the US having Von Brauns ferry rocket and space lift ops, and the Brits having the BIS', now formed as the British Interplanetary Commission...
alternate history
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In July 1940 the hounded British government warns the Australians of an imminent embargo of any aviation materials.
On 10 December 1941 the capital ships of the Royal Navy H.M.S. Prince of Wales and H.M.S. Repulse are sunk by Japanese airplanes. On 21 December of the same month, the firm...
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curtiss-wright corporation
general electric
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pratt & whitney
rolls-royce
royal australian air force
world war ii
wright aeronautical corporation
One of my continuing interests and a strength of this site is information about Royal Navy ships that never left the drawing board.
Recently.not so much has been published about these designs so I thought I would start this thread.
Many projects have there own threads and are well known to...
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vsel
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world war ii
yarrow shipbuilders limited
14th november
1922
20th century
british broadcasting corporation
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wireless
https://www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com/united-kingdom---morris-commercial-roadless-half-track-experimental-tractor.html
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/yafh9h/early_mechanisation_of_the_royal_artillery_an/
According to the Imperial War Museum, via Wikimedia Commons, the image...
From Air Pictorial 1955,
- For this contest,many companies entered in it,and essentially these proposals were involved;
Avro-723,English Electric P.7,Hawker P.1098 and Percival P.87.
- I suggest those projects;
Armstrong AW.170,Blackburn B.105 & B.106,Bristol-187,Handley-Page Reading...
Hello from Russia.
A rare diagram of the space station of the British Interplanetary Society from the book 1959 Project Satellite. Kenneth W. Gatland
This is the first futuristic scheme in Dr. Gatland's books.
All information about this umbrella https://www.bis-space.com/technical-projects/...
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21st century
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great britain
modern elizabethan era
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united kingdom
Hi,
the Brabazon Type-3 or Specification 6/45,the known tenders were;
Airspeed,Armstrong-Whitworth and Avro-692 & Avro-693,but can I ask if those
companies involved or not;
Blackburn,Bristol ,De Havilland,Fairey,Folland,Handley Page,Miles,Percival,Scottish Aviation,
Shorts,Vickers and Westland ?.
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coastal defences
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royal artillery
singapore
south-east asian theatre
straits settlements
united kingdom
world war ii
Re: Australia and the WNT - please see link below;
https://www.navy.gov.au/history/feature-histories/loss-more-symbolic-material
According to the Author, the government of Australia (if it chose) could likely have won excemption and retained HMAS Australia as an “Armoured Cruiser”. As others...
1920s
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interwar period
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These projects date back to the beginning of the 20th century when many warship experiences and design concepts were developed. Neither proved to be viable. There is little information about these projects and in one case it is only possible to speculate on certain specifications.
The first...
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early 1910s
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pre-world war i
regia marina
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vickers ltd
An interesting website regarding the unbuilt British R102 airship:
http://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/R102/Index.html
The R102 would have been history's biggest rigid airship, had it been built, even bigger than the Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin II.
I love very much the delightful novel "The two Georges" in which American revolution (and French revolution) never happened,and in a 1995 in many respects very similiar to 1935, British Empire reigns over great part of the world.
My question is which can be the more plausible alternate timeline...
1950s
1960s
a.v. roe and company / avro
aeronautical research council (australia)
british commonwealth
britishempire
cold war
commonwealth of australia
experimental
great britain
late 1940s
raf flying training command
royal air force
royal aircraft establishment
united kingdom
If I may put in a shameless self plug for a moment:
I have finished a companion volume to 'A Vertical Empire' called 'An Atomic Empire'. This deals with the British atomic programme from Windscale onwards, dealing with not only Windscale but the atomic weapons programme and the nuclear power...
I came across an article in the september 1984 edition
of 'Aeroplane Monthly', about Edgar Percival, who had died
earlier that year. In the article I found this :-
"In 1962 he [Edgar Percival] designed the Percival Gull Jet, a 12-place jet-engined executive aircraft with a cruising speed of...
he classic Steve McQueen movie immortalized three tunnels at Stalag Luft III POW camp. Now, astonished archaeologists have discovered a fourth called George. It has lain hidden for nearly 70 years and looks, to the untrained eye, like a building site. But, this insignificant tunnel opening...
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