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Burnside is mostly remembered for his glorious facial hair (i.e.: "sideburns") and losing the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862. Fredericksburg was one of those "this is stupid" battles which was only fought because of idiotic - but legal - orders. A river crossing into a town that's...

The way Rydz is being shown reminds me of a US Civil War General: Ambrose Burnside. Burnside knew he wasn't the right man for overall command of an Army and said so but reluctantly took the job because everyone else under consideration was either incompetent or too inexperienced.

The downtimers will have to get used to names which aren't what they expect or appear to be.

With an aircraft the hard part of reverse-engineering isn't the engine or airframe. It's the controls and everything else. A replica of an Me-262 isn't hard if you can disassemble and replicate an intact airframe. Making one that's actually flyable can be done with a pair of non-afterburning...

I just did some digging to confirm if anyone still made big piston aircraft engines like the ones used during WWII thinking no one did. WSK "PZL Kalisz" was still producing ASh-62IR engines as of 2017. They used to make the Klimov KV-1 jet engine too. If they still have the blueprints for that...

For foreign aircraft to import here's an alternative to the Spitfire which would be good: the Hawker Hurricane - same Merlin engine as the Spit but much easier to build and maintain while also being far more rugged. Hurricane pilots actually shot down more German aircraft during the Battle of...