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Oops. :o Well, I guess that'd make more sense, given the original purpose of Canning Dock. Still I just felt that having OTL's short-lived non-metropolitan County of Avon coming into being ITTL as a metropolitan county centred around Bristol instead (or, in the event of Monmouthshire succeeding...

Anywhere further downstream than Sea Mills (where they don't have to pass through the Avon Gorge) should be practical, on both banks of the river. Having docks out in the Bristol Channel itself to serve the larger urban area of Bristol also seems feasible (IOTL, the Bristol & Portishead Pier and...

Well, there was a bit more to it than that IOTL. Even though the Polish Air Force, was outnumbered by the Luftwaffe more than four to one, and its fighters were vastly outmatched by the more advanced German fighters, they remained active into the second week of the campaign, and only suffered 50...

Okay- Guardian and Grendel are very good names indeed. Perhaps I'll save them for the bigger and better aircraft which get developed and produced as successors to it, later on in the war. :cool: And yeah, Bristol did have their own entry IOTL for this specification, and it was by all accounts...

So, any thoughts on the repercussions further afield? Given the desperation of the Polish Air Force's PZL.50 Jastrząb program, which only started in late 1936 and only got their first power-plants (Bristol Mercury engines, identical to those used by the Gloster F5/34 prototype) in June 1939...

Well, the POD I was thinking of using was back in 1934, with Gloster getting bought out by the Bristol Aircraft Company instead of the Hawker Aircraft Company ITTL. Hawker had neither the inclination nor factory space to permit Gloster to produce the F5/34 IOTL- they had their Hurricane entering...

At the moment, IMO, the 'Gallant' and 'Griffin' names for the unnamed fighter sound like the best suggestions thus far ('Gauntlet' would've been better, but Gloster had already used that name for the Gloster Gladiator's predecessor). And given the mention of its short takeoff ability, the...

They're deep enough to have remained in continuous use from their original opening (July 1873 IOTL) up until to the present day, with the expansion of the Avonmouth Docks for the 21st century through the construction of a new deep sea container terminal currently awaiting planning approval.

The flight trials IOTL were conducted with the prototype carrying full armament and ammunition. The performance figures cited take this into account. Armour plate (how important is it to take this into consideration with a fighter aircraft of all-metal cantilever construction?) radio and...