What if the FAA gets the gloster gorshawk single seat Fighter as well as the fairey fulmar?
Not an official name... but something other AH.commer have applied to the Gloster F.5/34 design...I've heard the Gloster Goshawk mentioned before, but my feeble google-fu can only find reference to the aero engine of that name.
You wouldn't know of a link to anything about it, would you?
Thanks in advance, if so.
I've heard the Gloster Goshawk mentioned before, but my feeble google-fu can only find reference to the aero engine of that name.
You wouldn't know of a link to anything about it, would you?
Thanks in advance, if so.
It's a hypothetical FAA fighter somewhat similar (but NOT based on) the F5/34 in my AH The Whale Has Wings.
Ah, right.
Just out of curiosity, who is the manufacturer in your TL?
I've quite often had AH.Com come up near the top of a google search, but this time nothing at all.
Although now I think about it, if you wrote it in a non-public section, it just wouldn't (I think?)
What if the FAA gets the gloster gorshawk single seat Fighter as well as the fairey fulmar?
My go to POD is to get Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory's issues addressed at least 6 months earlier and have Spitfire production (nationally) at 60 plus AC a week by Jan 40.
This pretty much reduces the extra burden on the non-Spitfire and Hurricane producing Aircraft firms such as Gloster, Folland, Westlands etc and allows for the necessary production and assembly of the Gloster Goshawk.
You can build the Goshawk by reducing (or even eliminating) the Gladiator and not building the Roc.
The Fulmar likely wouldnt happen in the OTL form.
You dont need a ASB Britwank to supply the Goshawk, just a bit more rational development.
I actually calculated out the airframe builds in TWHW, and in fact they build LESS than OTL, just didnt build some of the turkeys like the Roc. I did simplify the division between manufacturers, but this is an obstacle that is moveable.
Can you add the Defiant to that list as well?
Ah Yes but how about the other way round, the AM cancel the Defiant and the RN then realise that the Roc is probably a dead dog!
You can, though you dont have to.
My assumption was that the independent FAA could cancel or change naval planes (hence no Roc), but that the AM would still go its own merry way. Since they thought up the Defiant, they aren't going to cancel it just because some jumped-up navy aviators think its a good idea...![]()