Drake's Drum

[Nick Sumner]

This is a picture of an Me 364 bomber.

This image is Photoshopped

If the moderators will permit me to say, it is from Drake's Drum, a series of alternate history books I am writing. Many aircraft that were designed during WW2 but never built in our time line, take to the skies in the story. Again, with the permission of the moderators, I would like to post some Photoshopped images of those aircraft from time to time.

 

[Nick Sumner]

This is a picture of a Boulton Paul Cormorant naval dive bomber. Although this aircraft never flew in our time line this image is based on the Boulton Paul P.96A, a real design. It is from Drake's Drum, a series of alternate history books I am writing.

This image is Photoshopped

 

[Graeme]

G'day Nick!

I like the Cormarant. I can now see the Defiant gene and possibly the Sea Fury nose - but I'm stumped with the cockpit origins?
When I first saw it my immediate thought was something along the lines of the Vanneau or the Cambridge...

 

[Graeme]

alternate history

"Alternatively" use a grainy photo of an extremely rare aircraft - photoshopping not required - and make up a story.

Stories of Stalin disliking air travel are a myth - he was a qualified pilot. You can see him with his coat at right having just secretly landed at an isolated British aerodrome to discuss the Berlin Crisis. He did not want anyone in the USSR to know he was negotiating with the British.
His bodyguard is looking suspiciously at the cameraman and is seriously considering liquidating him. People in the background are Secret Service.
The aircraft was built for two and on Stalin's request was fitted with long range tanks. He liked long distance flying.

 

[Nick Sumner]

G'day Nick!

I like the Cormarant. I can now see the Defiant gene and possibly the Sea Fury nose - but I'm stumped with the cockpit origins?
When I first saw it my immediate thought was something along the lines of the Vanneau or the Cambridge...

The original pic was of a Defiant target tug. The cockpit is based on the BP P.96A design but is just Photoshop tinkering...

 

[Nick Sumner]

This image is Photoshopped

Another image from the Drake's Drum timeline. This is a Fairey Firefly Mk II. This aircraft originated with a 1939 Royal Navy specification, NAD925/39A, for an interceptor. A parallel project for a two seat fighter with a much thicker wing to specification N.8/39 did not proceed far.

 

[Nick Sumner]

This image is Photoshopped

A Junkers Ju 187. In OTL, the Ju187 was cancelled by the Luftwaffe because it offered too little performance advantage over the Ju 87 it was deigned to replace. In the Drake's Drum timeline it becomes the Kreigsmarine's standard carrier dive bomber..

 

[jetcal1]

These creations are good enough to have posted in the "What is it? Game Thread and enjoyed the ensuing hilarity.

 

[Nick Sumner]

These images are Photoshopped

Two pictures of Mitsubishi A7M 'Reppu' fighters, from the Drake's Drum timeline.