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    A US 'Ju-88'

    I have to find my copy of the book again and look for the exact quote, but as far as I remember Ronald Dahl wrote a chapter in 'Going Solo' about him in a Hawker Hurricane hunting Ju.88's in the Greek Campaign. The way he has a fellow pilot explain to him how to hunt Junkers is that the Ju.88...
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    A US 'Ju-88'

    The Ju.88 was a run-of-the-mill twin engined light bomber, but designed around the German air doctrines of the time. Any twin-engined light bomber built in the US for the (then) USAAF would have to be designed around the consideration of USAAF 1940 air doctrines so even if it were designed by...
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    Short Stirling used as Maritime Patrol Aircraft for Battle of Atlantic?

    I would actually argue for the opposite: Coastal Command will take the Stirling as a stopgap measure, but only until enough new Sunderlands are available. The ability to land on water instead of special ultra long runways is too much of a boon for them. I can however see the new model...
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    Differences between surviving Kaiserreich, Weimar, and BRD?

    For me, there are too many variables to make a good prediction. For instance a surviving Kaiserreich: does that mean that Germany is politically still a militaristic authoritarian pseudo-democracy with figurehead-worship a prime virtue and a pervasive system of censorship making sure you do not...
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    What if the Blackburn Roc was designed as a single seat fighter?

    Oops, I didn't get to post the rest of my thoughts. Basically it went: Seeing that Bristol already took the basic design of its Beaufort torpedo bomber and turned it into the Beaufighter, in theory, someone could take the basic design of the Roc and Skua and build a shipborne heavy fighter out...
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    Could fascism survive to the present without WW2?

    Yes, but would autocratic militarism without actual fighting still be fascism or just .... autocratic militarism?
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    Could fascism survive to the present without WW2?

    The question is if a fascism that wouldn't end up in a war sooner or later would still be 'fascism' in the strictest sense of the word. After all, militarism and a perceived sense of the other nations having it in for you was overall almost as much a hallmark of Fascism as the concept of...
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    AHC: Make Escort Carriers Prevalent Among Developing Nations During The Cold War.

    The problem with escort carriers is that after 1950 everything they could be used for was already taken over by helicopters and heli-carrying frigates. The rest was made obsolete by the other development of the WWII island-hopping campaign: the practical knowledge of building airstrips fast and...
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    Which power would colonise/rule a non-Meiji Japan

    If we literally take 'no Meiji modernization' as a starting point, there would still be Matthew Calbraith Perry and his use of gunboat diplomacy to force Japan to open its borders. So the US would be the prime candidate to colonize Japan. However that US at that point had no interest in...
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    Alternate History Combat Aircraft

    Ok, so here's my Easter Egg for you... Spinning forth the tale of the Caudron 714 built by Renault: The Caudron 714 was a Hail-Mary fighter conceived out of desperation... twice. The first time was when in the general fighter panic leading up to WWII, Marcel Rifard proposed a lightweight...
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    Why do you think there is more interest in the Tudors than the Stuarts among the general public?

    And as for the Tudors, I think it's from having two famous players in one lineup: first Henry VII, with all his wives and the break with the Church of Rome. Then Elisabeth, the 'Virgin Queen' with her staring down the Spanish Armada. And of course, her sponsoring William Shakespeare didn't hurt...
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    Why do you think there is more interest in the Tudors than the Stuarts among the general public?

    Still, he was more English than that Norman who replaced him. At least he lived in the country.
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    WWI if the USA never existed?

    It mostly depends on what happens to the region that OTL became the US. If it expanded in size and population like OTL but remained a British colony, 'it' would have immediately joined the war on Britain's side and the first 'Colonial American' troops would arrive at tht front in 1915, at about...
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    Alternate History Combat Aircraft

    Caudron 714? I always thought this plane had a huge potential for what-if projects: Seeing that it was essentially built by cabinet makers around a Renault aircraft engine, pretty much every country that had a Renault factory could start a license-building scheme. Okay... its use as a fighter...
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    The ATL Automobiles & Automakers Thread.

    Hurray, we ain't dead yet!
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    WI: What if Catherine of Hungary was male?

    WI: What if Catherine of Hungary was male? You'd get a very confused young Louis of Orleans. You think that OTL be was a scandalous womaniser? Wait until he starts his career being engaged to what turns out to be another guy
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    What if the Blackburn Roc was designed as a single seat fighter?

    It would be interesting to see Blackburn use the same basic design it already had for the Roc and Skua and make a third design iteration as a shipborne fighter directly taking on the Fairey Fulmar. L
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    Plausibility Check-Llamas introduced to Mesoamerica

    Seeing what we have done with horses, sheep and cows over the last 2000 years, it should easily be possible to breed a race of llamas that could thrive even in Texas. However that would require either some foresight or a master plan, or some reason for llama farmers to move down from the...
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    A Wilder Wildcat

    Oops, I meant to write that the final design of the Super-Wildcat that eventually became the Hellcat didn't look like a Wildcat anymore.
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    A Wilder Wildcat

    OTL, the F6F Hellcat started out as a design study for a next generation Wildcat using the 1600 HP Cyclone. However halfway the design process P&W pulled the plug on the next generation 1600 HP Cyclone the Grumman plane was suppose to use and offered a 2000 HP engine instead. The subsequent...
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