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  1. WI Top Gun Actually Happened

    The original script had the foe as Cuba, but the USN had the location and enemy changed to avoid sensitivities.

  2. Australia and New Zealand join NATO

    The anglophone world would obviously come to the aid of Australia and New Zealand; however, the all-for-one one-for-all nature of NATO would require all European nations to go to war shoulder to shoulder with a couple of Britain's ex-colonies. I can't see that happening, as Britain would be...

  3. WI The Concorde had Combination Engines ?

    Concorde's speed limit was due to kinetic heating, not engine power. The Olympus was still increasing efficiency at Mach 2.2, and interestingly, it operated more efficiently with afterburners (a kind of ramjet anyway) at this speed than without. Building the planes out of steel was the only...

  4. WI The Concorde had Combination Engines ?

    That's only if you can work out a viable way for a Mach 3 plane not to melt:)

  5. WI The Concorde had Combination Engines ?

    Boeing originally created a VG design to the Concorde specification - the 733. The 2707 was the 250 seat design to the NST committee specification which evolved the design to more of a cranked arrow delta.

  6. WI The Concorde had Combination Engines ?

    The Boeing 2707 was possibly the cause of Concorde's failure - every Coke needs a Pepsi to make the market!! The Boeing 2707 was a 250 seater, but had a similar range to Concorde. Its achilles heal was that it was designed to fly at just under Mach 3.0, so had to be built from stainless steel...

  7. How would supersonic success effect the airliner industry?

    My first attempt at starting a thread, so please be nice to me!!! The airliner industry (above 100 seats) has become dominated by Boeing and Airbus...could it all have been different? January 1976. BA001 takes off from London Heathrow on its inaugural flight to New York JFK. Crowds of...

  8. WI the British were the worlds best project managers?

    The F-111 navigation/attack 'systems' were not in the same league as the TSR2. For example, the F-111 had a ground proximity warning indicator to tell the pilot he was flying towards a hill; the TSR2 was designed to have flown around the hill on its autopilot. Despite being an inferior...

  9. WI the British were the worlds best project managers?

    The TSR2 was a great achievement, but the requirement was not possible with the technology available at the time. Flying supersonically and at low level, the plane could only just get to the Russian border, never mind be able to bomb targets. The Nav/Attack computer was revolutionary, but the...

  10. WI the British were the worlds best project managers?

    You can only buy things that somebody else has already made and are for sale! A good example of this however was the British development of the hydrogen bomb. The single reason behind the weapon's development was to demonstrate to the USA that we possessed the scientific capability so we...

  11. WI the British were the worlds best project managers?

    I like the idea, however these could have not been delivered with more effective 'project' management. They were all research and development initiatives, and as such were charting uncharted territory. The problem with these initiatives were that the scope was too ambitions and Britain did not...

  12. What kind of a WW1 outcome butterlies away WW2?

    OK - first response pulled apart, so how about this one...Germany wins WW1...?

  13. What kind of a WW1 outcome butterlies away WW2?

    This is a really difficult one - and apologies for going back a bit further than the 1900 limit for this forum! Many people see the 20th Century and Versaille as a distinct event and do not regard what went earlier. Whilst WW1 was deemed to have been the first industrial war, in reality it was...

  14. What if Adolf Hitler was not an anti-semetic bigot?

    I think you have to go back further on this one. He build his political support on engaging the lower classes with an anti-monority approach. Once in power, he destroyed the middle class intelligencia (mainly Jews) who would influence opinion against him. So would he have even become the...

  15. What if Adolf Hitler was not an anti-semetic bigot?

    I think you have to go back further on this one. He built his political support on engaging the lower classes with an anti-monority approach. Once in power, he destroyed the middle class intelligencia (mainly Jews) who would influence opinion against him. So would he have even become the...

  16. Could one of the V-bombers have become a British B-52?

    The RAF's 1990sstrategy - Future Offensive Combat Aircraft was a research initiative to design the Tornado replacement. When the interdictor strike mission was (at last) seen as futile, the research changes to Future Offensive Air System, essentially the optimum delivery of Storm Shadows...

  17. Different Navy in the 70s

    The aviation industry does go through boom and bust with the cycle of warfare, and it seems to me that it's the government that always gets the blame whilst the aviation industry assume state aid in the lean periods. For any aviation collector, the variety of products made by Avro is staggering...

  18. Different Navy in the 70s

    AST.403 which eventually gave us the Typhoon was initially published in 1979 - 25 years to get a plane!! As aircraft complexity has increased, time to service has also increased, and the complexity model is exponential. At the same time, the R&D costs are increased so the same amount of money...

  19. Different Navy in the 70s

    AST.403 which eventually gave us the Typhoon was initially published in 1979 - 25 years to get a plane!! As aircraft complexity has increased, time to service has also increased, and the complexity model is exponential. At the same time, the R&D costs are increased so the same amount of money...

  20. Could one of the V-bombers have become a British B-52?

    The A330's cruise speed at 541 knots (mach 0.82) is only 19 knots slower than the B-52's maximum speed; the Vulcan's low level operational speed was 375 knots and high level was mach 0.86. Heat signature is a function of podded engines that could easily be improved; The Typhoon achieves a...
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