Air and Space Photos from Alternate Worlds.

Dh 88 Comet of the Ministry of Infomations air display team the " Union Jacks " 1941

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Pariacaca Mk3 fuerza aérea de la Argentina, 1979

the first foray of Argentina into the maritime recon role, the Pariacaca ( An Inca God of water ) was a pedestrian affair with two piston engines , and a trail dragging undercart. She had a crew of 6 and only in the mk3 version was a radar added to the airframe.

Operated over the South Atlantic in the maritime recce role, search and rescue and transport role for over 20 years until she was taken out of service in 1980 so missing the falklands war and it's chance of glory

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THE SHORTS BLACK EAGLE

During the summer of 1978 Operation Hickman was held in the North Atlantic and Canadian coast, the senario was based around the possibility of The New Commonwealth re-enforcing Canada in times of Trouble.

As usual the U.S. took a great interest in what was said and done in these manouvers and how the New Commonwealth responded to probing from its bombers and elint aircraft.

As usual U.S. aircraft took off from bases in Ireland and delved deep into the Atlantic coming upon the Carrier Groups from the East and South, well away from possible New Commonwealth interceptors..........or so they thought.

The Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth was steaming on a roughly Westerly heading after completing the days traing schedule, she was broadcasting in a clear radio code and was using her search radar to sweep the area, in effect she was lit up like a Christmas tree for the elint aircraft and like moths drawn to a flame they started to cluster around her.

Then the radio intercept ratings upon Queen Elizabeth heard it, the clear cry of a startled pilot, a cry warning of air interception radar locking on. The consternation was infectios and a babble voices was heard warnings of radar and of aircraft closing in, aircraft that drew along side, aircraft where the crew waved and took hand held pictures, aircraft where the crew could be heard to laugh over the radio, but most of all aircraft with the God dammed British roundel.

The British Ambassador reported that the lights in the Pentagon burned long into the night over the sudden apperance of the new long range interceptor. The US Airforce had no answer to this at the moment and their bombers where now vunerable in places they had previously thought safe.

Thus was the world made aware of the exisance of the shorts of belfast Black Eagle, ( named for a soaring eagle which flies 100s of km every day ) the new very long range interceptor and patrol fighter of the RAF and New Commonwealth airforces as well as the Commonwealth allies of Portugal and Poland.

The aircraft is portrayed as one of those on that first day high over the Atlantic, she has the standard mixed armament of 4 Skyflash missiles and 2 Blue Bamboo ii Nuclear tipped missiles. She also carries the two extended range tanks which enabled the plane to complete this mission sucsessfuly.

The Black Eagle was only ever a limited service aircraft and its numbers where always limited and never revealed by any New Commonwealth source, but the did become a familiar sight to US, Soviet and Red Chinease bomber crews far from base

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During the Great Patriotic War the Soviet Union found its self desperatly short of aircraft and decided to copy the Spitfires supplied by the United Kingdom. When the plan was put before Comrade Stalin the poor artist given the job of visulising the plan had never seen a Spitfire. He collected all the information possible for his drawing, But alas his information was faulty and he drew the wings back to front. This mistake would probably have gone un-noticed had not Comrade Stalin commented on the unusual shape of the wings. Rather than admit his mistake before Stalin, Brianovich compounded the error by claiming he had improved the design. Thus was born the Brianovich Br1. A medicore copy of the Spitfire. ................PART1 OF THE BRIANOVICH STORY.

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This is a little series I'm putting up of some very very bad models i got from the £1 shop.

The kit has only 9 parts fits like a pile of 💩 but for all its faults i sort of like it lol.
 

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During the Great Patriotic War the Soviet Union found its self desperatly short of aircraft and decided to copy the Spitfires supplied by the United Kingdom. When the plan was put before Comrade Stalin the poor artist given the job of visulising the plan had never seen a Spitfire. He collected all the information possible for his drawing, But alas his information was faulty and he drew the wings back to front. This mistake would probably have gone un-noticed had not Comrade Stalin commented on the unusual shape of the wings. Rather than admit his mistake before Stalin, Brianovich compounded the error by claiming he had improved the design. Thus was born the Brianovich Br1. A medicore copy of the Spitfire. ................PART1 OF THE BRIANOVICH STORY.

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This is a little series I'm putting up of some very very bad models i got from the £1 shop.

The kit has only 9 parts fits like a pile of 💩 but for all its faults i sort of like it lol.
A Lancaster to come maybe?
 

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Standing tall

Almost fifteen years after the completion of Mobile Launcher 3, the construction of ML-4 and 5 was commissioned by NASA from Ingalls Iron Works. $25mn each and 380 feet tall, the two new mobile launchers and their associated Launch Umbilical Towers were fitted to support crewed and un-crewed launches of Saturn V and Saturn I+ boosters.

Built on site, both launchers would play key roles in the Ares Programme, launching test flights of the Caelus Interplanetary Injection Booster and the Mars Exploration Module, as well as KS-IVB Orbitankers.
 
BRIANOVICH PART 3

SOVIET VVS . Soviet Occupation zone of Germany. Baltic shore 1946.

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There are 14 more Brianovich to go in the series......you will be mighty fed up by the end lol
 
What if
The German Empire had Spaceflight program in 1980s ?

Explanation to image
The Rocket in middle was build by Werner Von Braun for German lunar landing program in 1960s,
This "Saturn" use kerosine and hydrogen peroxide in first stage and "CSM" and lunar lander, second and third Hydrolox engines.
The Rocket on right is Saturn big brother with 6 engine in First stage, bigger second stage with high pressure Hydrolox engines.
and first stage has wings for reuse !
top Right you see Lunar program with "CSM" and lunar lander and Germany first space station (yes that there version of Skylab).

The Rocket left and down is Germany Raumfähre called Sänger.
The Payload bay is same size of US Space Shuttle and that has it reason:
Either Eastman Kodak or Carl Zeiss AG can't not bend the laws of optics on reconnaissance satellite and hardware
Here the Germans use the Sänger with there version of KH-10 Dorian in payload bay.

The Launch site is in Mittleafrika east coast, south of Daressalam and is called "Weltraumbahnhof Von Braun" since 1977.


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On August 1, 1944, a formation of Armia Krajowa fighters would assault a German airfield outside of Warsaw, in which they would successfully capture the base and more importantly, 11 Bf-109 G6, eight FW-190 A-8 fighters, and 12 FW-190 F-8 fighter bombers along with the stocks of bombs, spare parts, fuel, and ammunition for the planes. That group of Partisans had a large number of ex Polish Air Force and LOT (the pre-war civilian airline) pilots and ground crew among them. After seizing the planes, Poles would get to work in painting over the German emblems with their own emblems (either Kotwica emblem or red and white colors for easy identification with Allied pilots and ground troops.) In less than a day, the Armia Krajowa's air component called Eskadra Krogulec (Polish for Sparrowhawk Squadron) would go into action, providing air support for Armia Krajowa forces on the ground and engaging the Luftwaffe in the skies above Warsaw. There would be a total of 4 aces from that squadron, most notably Stefan Grzykniewski, a former fighter pilot of the Polish Air Force, who would down a total of 12 German planes in his Bf-109 G6 before himself getting shot down Teresin by a German Me-410 on September 8, 1944. Eskadra Krogulec would operate until September 21, 1944, when their remaining aircraft and equipment were destroyed by the Armia Krajowa to prevent recapture by the Germans as they had approached the airfield. During this time, the Squadron would have a confirmed total of 11 Bf-109s, eight FW-190s, two Ju-88s, five He-111s, six Ju-87 Stukas, four Me-410s, and 10 other aircraft types as well as attacking and destroying several German ground vehicles. In return, eight of their Bf-109s, and 16 Focke Wulfs would be shot down by both the German Luftwaffe and the Soviet Air Force (it has been disputed if these losses to the Soviets were either by accident or on purpose.)

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A Bf-109 G6 as flown by Jan Lublinowski (codenamed Mewa 4), Jan was a LOT airline pilot before 1939, who would go fly with the Armia Krajowa before shot down and captured by the Germans on August 29 in Warsaw and was subsequently executed. He shoot down 4 Luftwaffe planes as well 6 more possibly downed or certainly damaged along with shooting up a motor convoy ferrying elements of the Hermann Goering Division to Warsaw.

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An FW-190 A-8 as flown by Emilia Waczhinowska (codenamed Orzeł 2), another pre-war pilot for LOT, Waczhinowska would serve in the Krogulec Squadron until September 21. During the Warsaw Uprising, she would be credited with the destruction of 7 German planes as well as damaging a further 6 more as well as allegedly shooting down three Soviet Yak-9 fighters near Warsaw.

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An FW-190 F-8 fighter bomber as flown by Adam Berkowicz (codenamed Jastrząb 1), who flew with the Polish Air Force before the war and had subsequently escaped from Auschwitz before joining the Armia Krajowa. During the course of the Uprising, Berkowicz would shoot down a total of 2 Luftwaffe planes, damaging another 3, and destroying 4 Wehrmacht Panzers before ultimately getting shot by a Bf-109 G14 near Wolomin on September 4. He would end up immigrating to Israel after the war and flew with its new Air Force during the 1948 War of Independence, where he would shoot 5 Egyptian fighter planes before dying in a mid-air collision with another Israeli fighter plane in December of 1950.
 
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