Alternative History

A necessary preface. Dear colleagues, this alternative is not mine, but that of our Western colleague Blackhills, so I don’t fully grasp all the ...

Although work on tiltrotors is underway in many places, the Bell V-22 Osprey remains the world’s only production aircraft of its kind. However, at the ...

I've added a few illustrations to this archived post from April 2020. The Me.155 was originally planned as a carrier-based fighter for the aircraft ...

Dear colleagues, as I promised—here’s the first AI-related post of the new year) Contents: The Suez Crisis of 1956 proved to be an extremely unpleasant ...

Other parts of the series It's practically RI all over again. However, there are differences: the timing—in RI, the attack took place in November 1940, while ...

They “figured it out” the Russian way. Among the three of them. So that, as it should be, “330 for each!” Two bottles of vodka, frost-whitened by the cold, ...

Editor’s Foreword: In 1935, this was the largest flying boat in the world. This aircraft, with its remarkable design, could have come straight from the pages ...