Let's Examine Crusade

[Shroom Man 777]

Amusingly, only Shep was open to this idea.

Maybe Shep was playing Xbox Live at the time he posted.

[Simon_Jester]

Is your attention span measured in hours or something?

This is just brilliant.

The laugh, for me at least, is that you didn't look at the issue

Don't they say the UK loses in 1941? Wouldn't the first jets have flown by then?

The issue I'm referring to is the crisis that German powerplant designers (and aircraft designers) would have faced if the war had gone on longer.

All of the advanced "Luft '46" jets and such boomflash stuff depended on a group of advanced engines, such as the He S 011...

Having the early models, dirty paper for later advanced models and access to the lower ranking engineers of the Whittle turbojet design lineage in hand gives Germany an option to continue the "thrust" race in 1945+

Hmm. Interesting. Of course, Stuart did give the Germans those jet aircraft in working condition in TBO, as I recall, which implies that they had working jet engines in the right thrust range. So I'm not sure this puts them in any better position than Stuart was willing to grant in the Great Lopsided Story.

Nope. No I did not. And of course, my description of the setting make it obvious that I am a rabid Stuart fanboy whose opinions are so hopelessly biased that of course I must be defending him out of some misplaced sense of loyalty.