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While Singapore was very important the admiralty wanted to use it as a forward base for surging into the South Pacific they intended Columbo to be the main command and control hub

Engineers like to go to conferences and go on holiday and it's amazing just how many other engineers they meet when on their travels and they do like to talk about engineering. ,

I have wondered If the Franch had stayed longer would engines like the Hispano-Suiza 12Y have been able to be used maybe they could have gone air-cooled and used a variation of the Gnome Rhone 14 (the 14K looks like a pretty good option France had thousands of them lying around

While they were using the Taurus on the PZL 50b they believed the PZL 53 that was to use the Hercules had greater development potential and thus they paid great attention to it and most of the design alterations where for the Hercules that was to be delivered to their specifications in October...

According to the Poles they did tell Bristol but they were ignored of over a year as for high altitude performance the Poles didn't think they needed it they knew that the Germans didn't really have a strategic bomber force and were gearing up mainly to counter Stukas and German tactical assets...

According to the Poles they did tell Bristol but they were ignored of over a year

They had a very good record of tinkering with engines in the interwar years as well as continuously producing competitive designs in many fields of aeronautics form passanger planes like the PZL 44 WIcher to which was very comparable to the Lockheed Electra the PZL 37 which was a very effective...

But that would be more about protecting DEI not the Philippines the original point I was disputing was the idea of the Americans forcing ABDACOM to sail North to pull Rescue MacArthur in some ABDACOM version of some of the Pre-War US Planning that revolved around the idea of the US holding out...

He would risk ships but not for the Phillipines

The Poles were planning on making the engines themselves they already produced the Mercury under licence and had made successful modifications. As for the Hercules and Taurus the modifications they were planning to make and had been ordered for the test engines that were to be made by Bristol...

Doubtful as UK, Dutch and Australian interests lay in the fight for DEI and maintaining as much of the Malay Barrier as possible especially as the DEI was a major source of oil and their natural resources and the Phillipines were not seen as that important.

Although a brevet promotion and only "Acting" an Acting admiral is treated as if they are a full Admiral and he almost certainly would have been made full Admiral if he was still alive in January/February to act as theatre naval commander. The only difference is the pay although when they do...

not necessarily in July 1939 the Poles ordered the Hercules for the PZL.53 obviously with the war starting only a couple of months afterwards the Plane never went into production but if the order had been made a couple of months earlier in the same order the Poles also planned ordered a...

That's simply not true the Italians certainly used their second rate planes in East Africa mainly using CR-32s. The Germans used theirs in the Dodecanese campaign and the FW-190 was never used outside of mainland Europe, most of the Japanese Naval fighters that went against the UK in 1941-42...

While the Hercules may not have been great at high altitudes a lot of the other theatres like the Eastern Front where fought at significantly lower altitudes than Western Europe, how would a Hercules powered plane have faired as a lend lease plane to the Soviets? and would that have allowed...