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The wingspan was down to the specification which was trying to keep aircraft size...and cost down.....OK for peacetime...not so go for actual war.

IIRC, I recall seeing an article which suggested you could have had three Stirlings for each Sunderland in terms of production time per airframe....seemed a bit to to me.

France Fights on did something with a Stirling MPA Minimum at maximum range 2000lb. This is the Sunderland gross load and that was normally eight-250lb Mk XI DC. This was a modified Mk VIII with a concave nose to reduce ricochet, and this was the standard airdropped DC from 1942. OK, the...

There re a lot of posts on the Battlecruisers board that do that.....

Over on the Battlecruisers page John French brought up a Vickers 'modular' 'skeletal' diesel These diesels are large slow turning direct drive engines designed to turn large diameter propellers of high thrust efficiency. Each 12-cylinder engine can deliver 15,000bhp giving an installed HP in...

The wiki article mentioned the 1940 'auxiliary fighter carrier' - In 1940, Captain M. S. Slattery RN, Director of Air Material at the Admiralty, proposed a scheme for converting merchant ships into aircraft carriers as a follow-up to the CAM ship project.[2][3] Slattery proposed fitting a flight...

The article mentions Incidentally, Supermarine produced a design proposal involving moving the radiators from under the wings to the fuselage underside just aft of the cockpit; clearly the Mustang had been an object lesson. A company report in December 1942 claimed a 30 mph speed increase would...

Dolphin mounted next....

The day of reckoning is put off for several years............saddam was going sometime.

The Royal Navy’s Air Service in the Great War: David Hobbs The proposed 1917 raid would have used eight converted ships carrying 121 aircraft, 120 with torpedoes and 1 brightly coloured aircraft to act as raid commander which would stay in the area to co-ordinate the three waves and the H-12...

IIRC someone here....or possibly the Secret Projects Board.....suggested that this could come out of ways of getting the B.12/36 and P.13/36 aircraft off the ground.

The Churchill Oke was tested at Dieppe, all three quickly lost and abandoned, doesn't say how much use the one still capable of using its flamethrower after launch actually used it. https://www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com/churchill-oke.html

Off topic question, pulverised fuel would seem to give better conditions for the fireman but would it improve on efficiency and general operations for coal fired steam engines?

Interested to see where you go with this but is there any real advantage given oil is still introduced as in the OTL?

Death by Design…Peter Beale During the period when the two-pounder was being developed and mounted in tanks (as well as being used for ground-mounted anti-tank equipment), the thickness of armour on all tanks was rising steadily. There was clearly a case for a heavier gun. Col. Campbell Clarke...