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...
The British Army effectively invented what has unfortunately been termed Blitzkrieg in the latter stages of WW1. One of the outputs of this was the Mk 1 gun carrier based on a tank chassis it could carry a 6 inch or 60lb howitzer. However the vehicle was largely used as a pack mule. However...
you know Luft '46
http://www.luft46.com/
over proposed aircraft project during WW2
but is there a similar webpage over proposed project during WW1 ?
thanks in advance...
alternate history
austro-hungarian empirebritishempire
central powers
french third republic
imperial german state
kingdom of italy
triple entente
united states
world war i
From ‘Stuck on the Drawing Board’ by Richard Payne
Avro’s original projects against the Type 3 Specifications were the Avro 690 and 692 (or Avro XXII and XXIII), both powered by six Rolls-Royce Merlin 100 engines. These were superseded by the Avro 693 in 1945, which began life powered by four...
Hi,
in ER.110D Spec. for variable wing-sweep research aircraft,the contenders were Armstrong Whitworth AW.59,Blackburn
B-90,Boulton Paul P.121,Bristol-183 and Saunders P.149.
The Balckburn B-90 was single seat VG aircraft project powered by one Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire turbojet and it
had...
air ministry
britishempire
cold war
early 1950s
experimental
great britain
ministry of supply
royal air force
royal aircraft establishment
supersonic
united kingdom
variable geometry
Hi folks,
A little while back I mentioned this set of books - well I have been in contact with the author, Keith Meggs and can now inform you that the first volume of this set should be available in the very near future. Moreover, Keith is recording the details of those who are interested in...
1880s
19th century
aerospace industry
british commonwealth
britishempire
commonwealth of australia
early 1980s
government aircraft factories
late 20th century
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