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In real life Congress split the difference... and went with both the F-16 and the YF-17 (F-18).

Would another league have formed in it's place? Would the American League be without a partner for the World Series beginning in 1903? Discuss!

Why do we need an Air Force anyway? The Army has helicopters. The Navy and Marines both have Strikefighter Jets. Surely one of the services could have operated the B-52s, and operated the missile silos. How would America be different if the US Air Force never was?

What if Walt Disney had not been able to secure the amount of land necessary to build Disneyland in Anaheim, but instead bought a big piece of land in Thousand Oaks (NW of Los Angeles). How would real estate and development of the "Southlands" been any different?

What if Martin Van Buren had not opposed the annexation of Texas, and butterflies lead to his re-nomination as President over Polk. What kind of changes would a second Van Buren term (instead of Polk) have made for 1845-1849? -------------------------------------- From Wiki... On the...

Well, if the conservatives won in 1964, President Goldwater would eventually have a Presidential library built near Camelback Mountain.:)

George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush gives birth to a healthy six and half pound baby girl who they named "Dorothy." In OTL, they gave birth to a son, George W. Bush instead. When the OTL Dorothy is born in 1859, she is named "Cynthia." Tell the life of story of alternate...

The Great Northern War in which Russia received Estonia, Livonia, and Ingria and some of Karelia is not turned over to Peter The Great. King Fredrick of Sweden vows to fight on... What happens next?

In 1894, a novelist named Bram Stoker dies in a fire. Three years later, no novel named Dracula is ever publish. What happens next?

In ATL, English forces are not fooled by feint attack followed a swift retreat by Scottish forces in the Battle of Ancrum Moor. They realize this is set up for a massive ambush and instead of charging up Palace Hill, they go around and surprise the Scottish on the other side. The Scottish...

Aug 22nd, 1902... Teddy Roosevelt becames the first American President to ride in automobile in downtown Hartford Connecticut. What if the mighty T.R. dies from a massive heart attack on the ride. Rumors about the safety of the automobile result from the event. Discuss both the butterfly...

The YF-17 is a prequel to the F-18, yes it had two engines, and it was chosen to be the Navy's new fighter.

Yes, ToT helped the Ports secure Brazil. If you think about it, Brazil is far more desirable at the time than say... Cape Cod Mass, (not Spanish, I realize).

In OTL, Congress picked F-16 for the Air Force, and YF-17 (remodeled to F-18) for the Navy, because Navy needed a double engine, folding wing aircraft, whereas the Air Force picked the F-16 for versatility. What if Congress had decided against the Falcon, period. And gave both the Air Force...

I take it from your screenname, ni shi ge aozhou hua chiao. Your thread can actually be a future history thread as well as a past alternate history.

I predict that "Vegas" would have been in Reno instead. But "Vegas" as a concept still comes about for legal bookies > mobsters > corporate super casinos.

They say if the Library of Alexandria hadn't burned down, we would have lunar colonies by the year 1800.

It would be ASB, but no agricultural revolution, because humanity is no omnivorous. We don't eat veggies period, only meat.

We all know the Japanese blundered because the Declaration of War was delivered 50 minutes later than it was intended to be. What if the Dec of War came 50 minutes earlier? What difference would that have made?

Regular Carrier: Instead of the phoney show Supercarrier or the movie Top Gun where u saw the glam, a show where you see sailors scrubing toilets and pilots filling out paperwork.