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  1. Earliest possible heavier than air powered flight

    I guess you can call me a fanboy of the Wright's, and of Charlie Taylor, because they were bicycle mechanics at a time when aerodynamics wasn't much of an applied science with regards to airplanes.

  2. Earliest possible heavier than air powered flight

    Truth is strange. The Soviets bought British, rather than build based on the drawings of an assassin.

  3. AHC: fighter-bombers for 1939/40

    When the Molins gun became available, unfortunately when RPs had more fans. Some of the drawings seem to be pie-in-the-sky with cannons co-located with u/c, and firing inside the propeller arc, solving the problem of fuel tankage in an unlikely fashion.

  4. AHC: fighter-bombers for 1939/40

    If you're going to redesign the Airacuda completely, you could design a new airplane to fit the requirement completely. The 37 mm Olds cannon is, however, not a great choice of weapon, compared to the 40 mm Vickers S gun, or the later Molins.

  5. Vickers VC-7 in RAF service

    I love it when a plan comes together. I guess the Argosy was an unplanned pregnancy resulting from some unauthorized jiggery-pokey.

  6. WI HUAC had found actual spies?

    They call it a witch hunt for a reason, rules of evidence. There's also hearsay evidence that he was anti-nazi, and used influence and position to obtain passports and assist immigrants. What a corrupt bastard. So what evidence of what he did with his $1250/month exists? Did he declare it on his...

  7. Vickers VC-7 in RAF service

    And without a change of decision makers with diametrically opposed visions every few years. Plans and schemes don't work so well when the planners and schemers are replaced by men with a different agenda.

  8. WI HUAC had found actual spies?

    It requires a temporal anomaly for it to be considered a rumor.

  9. WI HUAC had found actual spies?

    It wasn't possible for Dickstein to be on the KGB payroll. The source of the original claim of Dickstein's complicity is based on one author's seeing documents from a foreign agency, revealed by another foreign agency not necessarily devoted to truth, but certainly dedicated to fucking with the...

  10. Captured equipment

    In Blackburn's " Guns of Normandy", there is related the story of the capture of a German nebelwerfer, which was pointed at the Germans and fired. It was unfortunate that the German artillery had registered the location of the weapon, with disastrous results.

  11. Captured equipment

    They did use one captured Japanese bulldozer which was likely one captured American bulldozer, a Caterpillar R-4. The first Japanese-manufactured dozer, the G-40, wasn't yet made, or ordered.

  12. PTSD & TBI Dealt With Better

    Bullet and shrapnel wounds, burns and missing body parts were easy to diagnose, but cowardice, shell shock and concussion were not. MRIs and CAT scans helped some, but medical science don't have all the answers yet. It used to be courts martial and death squads, but it's better now...

  13. Captured equipment

    The British operated a couple Me-108 aircraft, but they were bought, not captured. The Fieseler Storch, on the other hand, was captured and very popular with RAF and Army bigwigs. Heinkel He-115s were used for clandestine missions, but I can't recall if they were captured ones or not. Smoke 'em...

  14. Air and Space Photos from Alternate Worlds.

    Nice to see your stuff again. The MiG-15 is, of course, a MiG-17.

  15. Could the invention of heavier than flight be delayed?

    He certainly invented the first ultralight.

  16. Vickers VC-7 in RAF service

    British procurement policy wasn't always just right. Transall C.160 might have come with considerable benefits for industry vs Hercules. A slightly biased Belfast specification could very well have turned into a better Hercules, maybe. A tactical Belfast vs a strategic Belfast. Can a strategic...

  17. What did a USN carrier air wing look like in the post-war era?

    Could you elaborate on what a non-insane navy would look like? Which navy was better? Is it better now? In the good old days, you could give advanced technology a shot, like F7U, and if it doesn't work, replace it. If the F-35 doesn't work out well, what then?

  18. AHC: fighter-bombers for 1939/40

    How about making something out of Herbert Smith's a/c, power by Roy Fedden. Beardmore aquires Cosmos Engineering, don't go broke, and the rest is alternate history.

  19. WI: French Zeppelins and German Aeroplanes

    The Zeppelin-Staaken E-4/20 was designed by Rohrbach. He could never create its equal on his own dime. I never learned how to link, and I'm an old dog. The Aero-Club of France was created in 1898, and founded the international federation, FAI or IAF, in 1905.

  20. AHC: fighter-bombers for 1939/40

    Not much chance of a Mossie in '40 but maybe a Hercules Avro Anson, with a Gatling gun, from the psylifile.
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