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25 de nov. de 2019 · Forum: Alternate History Discussion: After 1900 WI: French Zeppelins and German Aeroplanes Historically the French ultimately gained the upper hand over the Germans in aeroplane production in WW1, producing far more aircraft and winning control of the skies.
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I think we can assume that it would be invented by either...
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2 de sept. de 2011 · I've noticed that a popular sentiment in ATLs in the early 1900s is somehow getting Zeppelin and Airships more widely used, as combat aircraft and civilian aircraft. But, let's be realistic here. No matter the timelines (CP victory in WWI, Axis victory in WWII) would zeppelins have ever...
What if Airships/Zeppelins never fell out of use? Following the downing of the Hindenburg in 1937, was a long list of several infamous crash landings and downing of airships. Previously including the R101 for Britain, US Roma, among others. The rise of commercial aircraft following the second World War also contributed to the fall of the airship.
- Inception and World War I
- Interwar Period; Major Advances
- World War II; The Airship Is Re-Proven
The first successful flight of a rigid airship took place in Germany in 1900 with the flight of LZ 1, general and inventor Count von Zeppelin’s design, which became a major influence on all future airship construction (referred to as the zeppelin-type). For the duration of the First World War, Germany (in addition to France and Italy, but to a far ...
The interwar period saw a massive increase in use of zeppelin-type airships, largely as commercial passenger transports for transatlantic and transcontinental flights, but also inaugurated a new era of military airship construction. The US Navy also acquired an interest in rigid airships in the early ‘20s, building its first, the USS Shenandoah (ZR...
Four more ZRCV’s were completed by the fall of 1941, but with the attack on Pearl Harbor, the program almost literally changed overnight. Various projects deemed non-critical to the infant war effort were drastically curtailed or cancelled altogether, including the final two airships of the ZRCV program; they were each about 30% complete when their...
20 de jun. de 2010 · David Daw. Published June 20, 2010. Comments ( 89) If I've learned anything from Alternate History fiction, it's that in 90% of all alternate universes are timelines where A.) Hitler won...
One of the changes in the Alternate History of Baker Street is the presence of zeppelins as a major form of air transport. The Hindenburg never crashing, combined with World War II never occurring, causes zeppelins to become the dominant form of intercontinental travel.
