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In this https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/u-s-military-isoted-to-1900-united-states.241407/ I had the same problem. My solution was twofold I/twin capitols. 2/ Federate India. 'India' was never a whole and there is no need to treat it as one.....and isn't that how the British ruled...

Ah ha...an expert☺

Hangs head in shame a vows not to rely on memory while on ah. Com and working at the same time. But yes absolutely correct and that only reinforces the point I was clumsily trying to make. Engine reliability is far and away better than it was. So back in the day with Speys or something...

Don't be amazed . A good craftsman can work 'dead on' if he has to. That should bring both shame and pride. Pride that we could produce such men and shame that we relied on them far too long.

Even today with far more efficient and reliable engines ETOPS certified aircraft are limited to One hour on one engine distances. Nimrods exceed that so yes 4 engines. Unless you want to limit the search radius?

Like most British aircraft of the time the most important thing was not the drawings or the build parameters or anything like that.What was important, vital even was 'Institutional knowledge' You knew that part 'A' needed a few thou shaved off in order that it fit part 'B' even though...

I helped build Nimrods and worked on a major rebuild of one. I've even been close up to the AEW version before it was scrapped. Back in the 80's I did maintenance work on the Dan Air Comet 4's. Yes I'm old. But a more labour intensive to build, poorly conceived, maintenance unfriendly aircraft...

I cannot recall where I read it but Edward even in exile had a British security detail who had orders to shoot Edward if any attempt was made to uplift him

From memory various costal sites, I'm at work now and don't have access to my notes but I seem to remember them building a railway spur to haul the guns at one point. There is also a youtube video of them being fired in the 1980's which is most impressive. They are BL15/42's adapted for land IIRC

I did some research for this for my own time line where Gib falls and is then retaken. The fifteen inch guns are from an aborted South American battle ship and were moved around a lot and the Spanish Army became quite good at this. The Rock has a major weakness....water. Effectively it has two...

The mark 9 I helped to rebuild some years back had three positions, up, not quite up and down. can't remember the angles. having said that all the control surfaces were unmatched and had been rebuilt many times so who knows?

And damn! how much steel is in that thing!

Oh I remember that! OK for a mark 9 Spitfire from a full power standing start with full fuel tanks, not armed on a summers day with minimum flap is about 250 metres. That's with very little cross wind and of course on land. There are variables of course

This is something you already know but there is always wind over a carrier. Turning into wind gives a little extra free lift, but gives the pilot help in that there is no cross wind. The last thing you need as a combat pilot is to wonder how much rudder trim to put on and to have to adjust once...

Yep, absolutely 'Knowing' that Russia will join in a war with Germany is hindsight

That certainly, but if the UK chooses it can manipulate the rouble just as it did to Portugal during the pink map affair.

Money. You want a turning point this maybe it. IOTL Japan ran out of money despite military victory just before Russia ran out of money and this helped bring about peace . Not the only factor of course. In 1905 the UK has lots of warships and lots of money and IIRC had already had a disagreement...

I'll tell you this...watch the film and I guarantee you will never look at leg of lamb the same way again:biggrin:

I think we can still feed ourselves but we may be a bit thin after a while

I seem to remember Robert Muldoon saying every New Zealander that moved to Aus raised the average the I.Q of both countries:biggrin: Not at all a nice thing to say