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By Andy Cooke January 27th, 1967: the first deaths of NASA astronauts on live operations. A day burned indelibly into the heart of NASA....

By Andy Cooke Aleksandr Vishnevsky was the best surgeon on the staff of Dr Boris Petrovsy, the Minister of Health for the Soviet Union -...

By Andy Cooke Eisenhower's Priorities After the furore over the Soviet Union "winning" the race to launch the first satellite, President...

By Andy Cooke With politics and the effects of disagreements on EU membership and even debates taking centre stage in the UK right now,...

By Andy Cooke This series will look at potential Points of Divergence (PoDs) of the Space Age. From the first launches to the present...

By Andy Cooke To get a world where airships remain as a viable form of transport, the earlier the PoD, the better. We've looked at early...

By Andy Cooke The R101 had failed disastrously, pushing the British Empire out of airship development. Hindenburg ended the chances...

By Andy Cooke The one airship disaster that everyone knows: "Oh, the humanity!" In OTL, this was the final straw that broke the...

By Andy Cooke In the last article, I covered the Imperial Airship Scheme, the requirements for the R100 and R101, the division of teams...

By Andy Cooke When looking at disasters in history that pushed OTL away from airships, the most common one to come to mind is the...

By Andy Cooke In the last article, I looked at how airships could gain traction by earlier development, making them harder to dislodge...

By Andy Cooke Having covered the military and civilian roles of airships, air operations, navigation and weather aspects of airship...

By Andy Cooke The airship's natural home is in the sky. Free to follow the currents of the wind and air, roaming across the infinite...

By Andy Cooke Where am I? How fast am I going? How high am I? All questions that you really want to be on top of at all times,...

By Andy Cooke Airships are great for adding colour to your alternate history, and for showcasing that it is different from OTL. But...

By Andy Cooke After my introduction to airships in alternate history and my article on the roles of military airships if history had...

By Andy Cooke How can you use airships for military purposes - in a world where heavier-than-air aircraft already exist? Anyone trying...

by Andy Cooke When it comes to signalling that the reader is in an alternate history, airships are superb for the purpose. Whether Harry...

By Andy Cooke As this series comes to an end, I'm going to wrap up by doing something a little different: looking at a wider set of...

By Andy Cooke It is two minutes to midnight, at the time I'm writing this article. It is also eight in the evening, British Summer Time....