"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"alfred montestruc" wrote in message
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"Charles Talleyrand" wrote in message
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Lets suppose you get to give a single new airplane design and a single
prototype
to a participant of World War One. You can offer the
Austro-Hungarians
the
design for a B-52 if you wish. However, that might prove a
manufacturing
challenge to them (and one can only wonder about their supply of jet
fuel).

Your goal is to change history. You can hope for a German victory or
just that the
Allies win faster. It's up to you.

So, what design do you offer, remembering that this design must be
manufactured, fueled,
and armed by the natives?

Probably a Japanese Zero. The Zero could land and take off on a
relitivly short grass runway as long as the ground is not soft. The
engine should be within their capacity to build, and that is the main
thing, a late 1930's evolved internal combustion aircraft engine with
lots of power.


It wasnt, the engine was at least 2 generations beyond
anything achievable in 1918.

How about a Boeing P-26 Peashooter?