Air and Space Photos from Alternate Worlds.
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Unlike in the OTL inter-war period, Hungary also has a pretty good domestic aircraft industry, on par with the Czech and Polish one (and some of the more succesful Slovak brands). The planes, while somewhat lagging behind Polish and Czech designs, are still reasonably advanced and up to date with the rest of the European competition (e. g. one of the latest ATL fighter designs is rather similar to the OTL Márton XV-01 prototype, the late 1930s Dutch Fokker D.XXIII and the McDonnell Kestrel or William & Colt Peacemaker of the original CS).
Here's the most succesful monoplane fighter of the state-owned Légihonvéd* company, the LH-84 Turul. I'd describe it as a mashup of the Albatros-Halberstadt 104 (ATL Messerschmitt Bf 109**) and the OTL Hungarian WM-21 Ezüstnyil ("Silver Arrow") prototype. It's also kind of reminescent of the original CS's Marquette Defender.
* Virtually same as the Weiss Manfred plant of OTL, but with greater financial and material backing and a more fancier name.
** The Weimar republic has collapsed, replaced by a renewed Imperial Germany that is actually Kaiser-less, but nearly as revanchist as the non-existant Nazis. It continues producing pretty nice planes.
Here's the most succesful monoplane fighter of the state-owned Légihonvéd* company, the LH-84 Turul. I'd describe it as a mashup of the Albatros-Halberstadt 104 (ATL Messerschmitt Bf 109**) and the OTL Hungarian WM-21 Ezüstnyil ("Silver Arrow") prototype. It's also kind of reminescent of the original CS's Marquette Defender.
* Virtually same as the Weiss Manfred plant of OTL, but with greater financial and material backing and a more fancier name.
** The Weimar republic has collapsed, replaced by a renewed Imperial Germany that is actually Kaiser-less, but nearly as revanchist as the non-existant Nazis. It continues producing pretty nice planes.
And a look at the LH-84 from above.
Small P.S. about the colours : True, they're kind of over-the-top, even for an air-piraty dieselpunk Hortyist Hungary... But blame that on Horthy himself, he personally designed the colour scheme you see on this model (OOC: the model is supposed to represent the first production LH-84, which was given an overly patriotic tricolour paintjob).
Small P.S. about the colours : True, they're kind of over-the-top, even for an air-piraty dieselpunk Hortyist Hungary... But blame that on Horthy himself, he personally designed the colour scheme you see on this model (OOC: the model is supposed to represent the first production LH-84, which was given an overly patriotic tricolour paintjob).
Oh, and here's something from Wings Palette :
Junkers Ju.88 from an ATL where the US joined the Axis or is on good terms with Nazi Germany ?
The above camo isn't purely speculative. US troops managed to capture at least one former Romanian Ju.88 and ship it back home for testing, like many other captured planes of the Axis states.
And here you have a captured American Messerschmitt (incidentally, the photo would fit well in TL 191's Second Great War
) :
Junkers Ju.88 from an ATL where the US joined the Axis or is on good terms with Nazi Germany ?
The above camo isn't purely speculative. US troops managed to capture at least one former Romanian Ju.88 and ship it back home for testing, like many other captured planes of the Axis states.
And here you have a captured American Messerschmitt (incidentally, the photo would fit well in TL 191's Second Great War
) :
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And here you have a captured American Messerschmitt (incidentally, the photo would fit well in TL 191's Second Great War
awsome, thanks for shareing.
(i have been thinking about doing a series of TL-191 aircraft soon. mabe someone want's to start it off?
)
And in the vein of the American Ju.88 and Messerschmitt :
Soviet Ju.88...
...British Ju.88...
Nazi Petliakov Pe-2 "Peshka".
Nazi Polikarpov I-16 !
Nazi Supermarine Spitfire.
Mosley launches a coup in the UK, the country enters WWII on the Axis side and gets some Focke-Wulfs !
American B-17s in the service of the US's greatest ally, the Third Reich. Supplied at the order of president Lindbergh (yeah, if AH clichés could bloom).
Soviet Ju.88...
...British Ju.88...
Nazi Petliakov Pe-2 "Peshka".
Nazi Polikarpov I-16 !
Nazi Supermarine Spitfire.
Mosley launches a coup in the UK, the country enters WWII on the Axis side and gets some Focke-Wulfs !
American B-17s in the service of the US's greatest ally, the Third Reich. Supplied at the order of president Lindbergh (yeah, if AH clichés could bloom
).
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Now a more proper contribution. Something I cooked up recently...
A Robinson R.44 Raven of the Liechtenstein Army Air Corps.
In service since 2001, a total of 3 helis bought. In 2005-2010, one of them served as part of Liechtenstein's logistic/medic/sapper contingent of the international peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.
OOC: A modified profile of an Estonian Air Force R.44.
A Robinson R.44 Raven of the Liechtenstein Army Air Corps.
In service since 2001, a total of 3 helis bought. In 2005-2010, one of them served as part of Liechtenstein's logistic/medic/sapper contingent of the international peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.
OOC: A modified profile of an Estonian Air Force R.44.
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Nah ! S:AAB Earth just stole the blueprints from the glorious LGE during an interdimensional infiltration led from their own TL !
Yeah, that's one of the few full-scale Hammerhead props they made for that old series.
It reminds me of Adolf Galland(?)'s alleged OTL remark about what they really needed to win the Battle of Britain was a squadron of Spitfires...
The pic of the B-17 in German colours also reminds me of something that struck me a while back. I don't know if anybody's seen the season finale episode for Series 5 of (New) Doctor Who ("The Big Bang"), but there's one bit where they're in a museum and there's talk of London being bombed in the Blitz...and the pictures in the neighbouring exhibit quite clearly show Fortresses...
(So basically, WW2 in the Whoniverse was weird...)
The pic of the B-17 in German colours also reminds me of something that struck me a while back. I don't know if anybody's seen the season finale episode for Series 5 of (New) Doctor Who ("The Big Bang"), but there's one bit where they're in a museum and there's talk of London being bombed in the Blitz...and the pictures in the neighbouring exhibit quite clearly show Fortresses...
(So basically, WW2 in the Whoniverse was weird...)