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  1. Apple not Windows dominates the 90s

    Rather than Apple, how about another of Job's babies, NeXT, or more specifically OPENSTEP? The idea of write once, run anywhere could be very attractive to business users or governments, and appearing as it does at the dawn of the WWW (with the very first web server being a NeXT Cube under Tim...

  2. Best Date for a 1943 D-Day?

    The available dates are fairly limited, as you need what they needed in 1944 - a spring/summer low tide at/around dawn. That was one of the main reasons they couldn't just put off the invasion in June 1944 for a few days to get a better weather window. It would have been a month or so before the...

  3. WI/PC Expanded British Leyland/Japan Automakers Co-op

    The big question would be, what's in it for the Japanese? Why would they wish to co-operate with a highly inefficient nationalised industry, with terrible employee relations, and old, inefficient factories filled with obsolete technology? In OTL, Nissan decided it was far better to build a new...

  4. Which death of a leader is the worst for the Allies?

    Since in OTL Halifax turned the job down (interestingly because he would have continued the war with Churchill in his war cabinet, and he thought that taking on the job would simply result in him being a figurehead while Churchill took the decisions), would he take the job if Churchill wasn't...

  5. Total amount of Soviet equipment captured by Germans in 1941?

    How many of the T-26 were the version with just machine guns? Quite a few IIRC. Yes the Germans captured a lot of BT-7 and T-26, however the limiting factor in how much of this kit they chose to use was trained men to crew them. As far as I'm aware, most of the captured tanks they chose to use...

  6. Float Planes for COIN?

    If you want something a little larger (albeit slower), how about an Antonov AN-2 or 3 (depending on if you want a radial engine or a turboprop)? Cruises at 100 knots, 4-5 hours endurance, useful load of just over 2 tons, already available in a float plane configuration. Assuming your opponents...

  7. Total amount of Soviet equipment captured by Germans in 1941?

    Of course it also included things like the T-35, at least one of which ended up being used by the germans for a while and was probably worse than useless, particularly if you needed to bail out of it.

  8. Worst Possible WW2 single engine carrier fighter.

    It's ok, if you're British and like tinkering with old mechanical stuff, you can add a set of Whitworth to that.

  9. on the beach Naval aircraft on shore.

    For all those disparaging the defensive capabilities of the Avenger, worth noting that it finished WWII with a positive kills:losses ratio in air combat (a rather unusual statistic for any attack aircraft), and IIRC was used from time to time for CAP duties, in the absence of anything more...

  10. Worst Idea In Military Aviation

    Except that the F82 was actually reasonably successful, used in Korea as a replacement for the P-61 Black Widow in the all-weather interceptor role.

  11. WI: Major Dick Bong Lives!

    Would he have gone the route of Chuck Yeager, Neil Armstrong, et al as a post-war test pilot and then potentially into the space program? It's certainly a possibility, but he may have had different ideas. Perhaps he'd have returned to civilian life and become a commercial pilot? (The MoH would...

  12. Doubled Radials: Easy Solution or More Trouble than They're Worth?

    Fair enough, but while we're having the discussion we might as well consider all related possibilities, just in case anyone in the future is radical enough to actually use the search facility. :)

  13. Doubled Radials: Easy Solution or More Trouble than They're Worth?

    Others have explained the difficulties of turning a single row radial engine into a twin row engine, but there are also issues with taking an aircraft designed for a single row radial engine and replacing it with a twin row design. The mass goes up, but more importantly, that mass is further...

  14. Pink Floyd WI: David Gilmour says no.

    At the time, the go-to session guitarist in/around London was a certain Jimmy Page (and if you needed bass, keyboards, or a whole range of other interesting instruments, then John Paul Jones was the man to go for).

  15. Alternative to Alexander for Auchinleck, in 1942?

    Small point of order, Slim never served in the ranks, although how he managed to join the University of Birmingham OTC in 1912 on the strength of his older brother being at the university (while he was a clerk) is something that isn't immediately obvious from any sources I've read.

  16. WWII: German Air Force doomed from the start?

    Glued wood (specifically plywood) is a perfectly good material for building light, strong, structures like aircraft (or my personal area of special expertise, boats). Weight for weight it's approximately 2.5 times stronger than steel. It was certainly good enough for the De Haviland Mosquito...

  17. Colin Powell as President after 9/11

  18. Colin Powell as President after 9/11

    Just a small point, and any experts on the US constitution should feel free to correct me, but I think that if Colin Powell assumes the presidency in these circumstances then he's entitled to be elected president twice, so in theory he could remain in office until January 2013. I very much...

  19. Earliest Tube Alloys bomb

    Fair enough, I was going by OTL introduction of working technologies, with USS Nautilus in the early 1950s. In that case, if the US goes down the reactor route, would the first nuclear vessels be subs as in OTL, or surface ships? I'd suspect that without the post-war chance to go through battle...

  20. Earliest Tube Alloys bomb

    Of course this also raises ther question: what sort of delays does the Manhattan project face from the loss of the research, personnel, and resources that aren't transferred from this time line's Tube Alloys project? I expect there'll be some, but wouldn't like to say if thats a few months or a...
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