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I think it would be medium sized, similar to the F18. The RAF hasn't had much interest in light fighter concepts unfortunately and large fighter aircraft like the F14 are probably too expensive for 1970's Britain. I also think that it would be a fixed wing, conventional tail design like the...

The Bristol aeroplane company takes an interest in the PZL 11 with Bristol Mercury engine and decides to put it in to licence production. The RAF buys the Bristol version from 1934 on and Bristol and PZL co-operate on modified versions over the next few years such as the PZL24 and ultimately...

I just finished reading Ben Elton's 'Time and Time Again' and really enjoyed it.

As timelines go this one sounds as if it would play out to be a great tragedy and perhaps a humiliation for Sweden. With an earlier PoD could Sweden have prepared better for such an amphibious operation? Maybe from the mid war years procuring better German aircraft, especially fighters. Or...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I think that's a gorgeous photograph of the Sea Vixen. It should have been chosen ahead of the Javelin for the RAF I think. I still think the P1052/1081 was the only possible MiG 15 equivalent for Korean service. Off topic but since I'm already here...

I think if the situation had been treated as an emergency then the P1081 could have been in service in time. Failing that I agree that the Venom would have been an excellent match in many ways for the MiGs. The Vampire was as outdated as the Meteor. Throw in the entirely plausible scenario of...

And the uniforms! The UNIFORMS!! sigh

Indeed. But on the positive side it would probably avoid the 1930s craze for silly moustaches.

Could it be achieved by diplomacy rather than force? Perhaps offering Austria and Germany benefits of a close political union. A Rome-Berlin axis/proto EU with a strong conservative/fascist outlook. It could be hailed as a new HRE maybe?

What about a Soviet dominated Europe in 1946 or whatever type scenario and a British commonwealth friendly to the Soviet Empire on England's doorstep, including defence treaties? No? Not really? Ok.

I had no idea. I just spotted it on a Facebook forum on the Mig 21 earlier, but then I found a link to this; http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/285/The-Breaking-Point--Canadian-MiGs-test-American-friendship--2011-APRIL-FOOLS-HOAX.aspx

The picture says it all really...

Or a different set of alliances with a PoD 20 years earlier perhaps.

I think the Sicily invasion was the right choice given what was available in 1943. I wonder if an invasion of Northern Norway could have been pulled off though. Would have put some political pressure on the Finns and maybe helped the Soviet Union. It would have made the arctic convoys a bit...

short legs I have to thank the first responder for making me laugh at loud when he said that his main concern was the short range of the SHar 1.:D I'm sure I remember at the time that some right wing nutter stood up in the house and said something along the lines of 'we have the nukes why...

Ban the bomb I suppose in this scenario the A-Bomb project was canned early on because the Americans decided to put the money into more immediate things that they knew would work. If there's no A-bomb then there isn't likely to be a B36 either I don't think, but maybe I'm wrong about that. As...

To get that result would require different leadership all round I think. No demand for unconditional surrender obviously and some restraint shown by the axis in their treatment of prisoners and people in conquered territories. The allies would have to suffer a very, very demoralising series of...

Which scenarios do you think are most interesting and/or likely in creating a long term UK fighter presence in the Soviet Union akin to the French Normandie Niemen and having them fly Soviet aircraft? 1. Extending the stay of 151 wing at Murmansk through the rest of the war, re-equipping...

Steam punk coolness indeed, but useless in the real world I think. Short ranged, slow and roadbound. Pity.

Surely to get to Western Europe the Soviets would already have invaded the whole or most of Germany forcing a Nazi surrender. German troops in France, Holland etc aren't going to dally surrendering to the locals when the Dutch resistance etc decide to liberate themselves. The Red Army then has...