SsgtC
Banned
My suggestion to the Board would be to invest in the new Airliners- indeed set up a British Airline which 'flys in style' with as luxerious airliners as possible, and top line 'White Star' service. Like Brunel's old Great Western Lines, Have offers for train, plane, and ship service- 'fly out for your meeting/shopping, travel back in style'.
I would be interested how a surviving shipping industry/late aircraft development has effected the UK and its place in the world. The Jet engine was a British invention, where are the Comets? Who is in charge?
Also what's going on with Helicopter devolpment? Rockets? etc please...
Not sure I'll have White Star itself set up an airline, though some sort of commercial agreement is a definite possibility.
The Comet itself was butterflied away. However, in developing they're new aircraft, Boeing got significant design help from de Havilland. (See the engines buried in the wing root). As for the overall state of the UK's aviation industry, it's stronger than OTL. The US, UK and German Empire cooperate closely in aircraft development. Not to the point where they fly the same aircraft, but to where you can see design influences. Jet technology ITTL was actually one of the technology transfers that the US got for protecting the far East during the war (along with RADAR and early nuclear research).
Helicopters were developed pretty much as OTL. Development is a bit slower. The Bell UH-1 entered production in 1964 verses OTL 1960. Rockets exist, though manned spaceflight is still quite some time away. No Cold War as we know it. Russia is causing some problems where they can (China, French Indochina, Burma, India, etc), but nothing to the scale of OTL. Missile tech has been developed, tactical weapons (AAMs, ASMs, SAMs, SSMs are actually sightly ahead of OTL). Ballistic missile development is behind (not as pressing a need).
Nuclear weapons have been developed, but more as "proof of concept" than as an actual working weapon system (joint US, UK, GE effort). And outside of a few test examples, no nation is known to maintain them in their arsenal.