Drake's Drum

[nicksumner]

Oh yes! I back the thing up once a week.

[nicksumner]

The first and third images in this post are Photoshopped

First and second image: The Fiat G.57 was a strike aircraft planned but never flown in our timeline. Based on the Fiat G.55, it was to carry a ‘Silurroto’ lightweight torpedo and be powered by a Fiat A.83 radial engine. The second image is a Fiat factory drawing of the design.

The third and fourth images are of a ‘Caproni Ca. 336.’ This aircraft is a speculative design for an Italian carrier based torpedo bomber. The Ca. 336 designation was (to the best of my knowledge) never issued in our time-line, but this aircraft is based on the second variation of the Caproni Ca. 335 which was to be licence built in Belgium as the SABCA S.47. In our time line this multi role warplane flew in prototype form in 1939 and for its new role I have given it a revised undercarriage, an enlarged wing and an Isotta Fraschini Zeta engine, which was test flown in our time line and was some 25% more powerful than the design’s original Hispano-Suiza 12 Ycrs.

The Squadriglia Forze Navali (The Regia Aeronautica’s shipboard arm) appendix is now up at the Drake’s Drum website. There are other appendices also posted there which feature many never were aircraft and more will be uploaded in the next few weeks. Another new appendix concerns itself with Beardmore and Palmer built warships of the Drake’s Drum timeline. Both these firms went bankrupt in the thirties in our timeline but continue on in Drake’s Drum.

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The paperback edition of the second book in the trilogy, Drake’s Drum: The Reckoning , is due to be released by Sea Lion Press in the next few days.

[lordroel]

Nov 23, 2020 17:48:46 GMT nicksumner said:

The first and third images in this post are Photoshopped

Dam good photoshop they are.

[nicksumner]

THE PAPERBACK EDITION OF THE SECOND BOOK IN THE TRILOGY, DRAKE’S DRUM: THE RECKONING , HAS NOW BEEN RELEASED BY SEA LION PRESS.

This is my interpretation of how the BMW 802 powered fighter designed in August 1941 by Dip Ing Ludwig Mittlehuber of Focke-Wulf might have evolved if it had been developed as a naval fighter. The second picture shows a captured version in US markings under test in the United States.

These images are Photoshopped.

The Seeluftstreitkraft (The Luftwaffe’s shipboard arm) appendix is now up at the Drake’s Drum website, as is the Navy of the Polish Government in Exile appendix. The US Army and Kriegsmarine Appendices have also been updated and amended.

www.drakesdrum.co.uk

[lordroel]

Nov 27, 2020 19:34:43 GMT nicksumner said:

THE PAPERBACK EDITION OF THE SECOND BOOK IN THE TRILOGY, DRAKE’S DRUM: THE RECKONING , HAS NOW BEEN RELEASED BY SEA LION PRESS.

This is my interpretation of how the BMW 802 powered fighter designed in August 1941 by Dip Ing Ludwig Mittlehuber of Focke-Wulf might have evolved if it had been developed as a naval fighter. The second picture shows a captured version in US markings under test in the United States.

These images are Photoshopped.

The Seeluftstreitkraft (The Luftwaffe’s shipboard arm) appendix is now up at the Drake’s Drum website, as is the Navy of the Polish Government in Exile appendix. The US Army and Kriegsmarine Appendices have also been updated and amended.

www.drakesdrum.co.uk

Will have to check it out then.

[nicksumner]

The USN air arm appendix is now up at the Drake's Drum website as well as that for minor Axis Navies and updated versions of the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy appendices.

[lordroel]

Dec 7, 2020 13:13:07 GMT nicksumner said:

The USN air arm appendix is now up at the Drake's Drum website as well as that for minor Axis Navies and updated versions of the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy appendices.

Good works as always nicksumner.

[sandyman]

Just had the pleasure of reading the two Drakes Drums novels again and as before the are great.

[nicksumner]

Dec 8, 2020 14:18:13 GMT sandyman said:

Just had the pleasure of reading the two Drakes Drums novels again and as before the are great.

Thanks Sandyman, I'm very glad you enjoyed them. I'm hoping to have number 3 finished in the spring.

[nicksumner]

These images are photoshopped





These aircraft are both speculative designs from the world of Drake’s Drum. The first is a P58C, a single seat interceptor powered by two Allison V-3420s and a J33 Derwent. In OTL the XP58 was extensively tested but never entered service. In TTL, the need for interceptors to defend the continental United States will be deemed very urgent, propelling the P58 into service. The P58C would dispense with the second crew member and rearward firing armament for the extra speed and climb performance offered by a jet engine.

The second aircraft is a P72D. In OTL the R-4360 powered XP72 never went into production, in part because the engine took so long to mature. In TTL a British X-2470 ‘Grampian’ engine, a more highly supercharged and slightly faster turning version of the Pennine, is used instead. This permits the designers at Republic to dispense with the enormous second supercharger stage that gave the OTL XP72 its distinctive ‘belly.’ The wing developed for the P47N would also be utilised.

The USAAF Appendix is now up at the Drake’s Drum website along with the Appendix on Japan’s oil supply.

Merry Christmas all!

[nicksumner]

I'm very happy to announce that the manuscript of third part of Drake's Drum has been submitted to the publisher for editing and proof reading.


In other news, while I originally planned this project as a trilogy, it turns out that I have just too much material to fit into one final book, so it will be a tetralogy instead.

[lordroel]

Mar 5, 2021 16:16:46 GMT nicksumner said:

I'm very happy to announce that the manuscript of third part of Drake's Drum has been submitted to the publisher for editing and proof reading.


In other news, while I originally planned this project as a trilogy, it turns out that I have just too much material to fit into one final book, so it will be a tetralogy instead.

Nice to hear that, have not yet bought the second novel, waiting until i go on holiday to buy it and others.

[nicksumner]

I am pleased to announce that the third part of my alternative history book series is soon to be published by Sea Lion Press. Drake's Drum: Currents of Fate, will be available as both a paperback book and as a Kindle e-book. The concluding part. Drake’s Drum: The Horizon of Our Hopes will be released next year.

There are updates to the website, including a new short story, The Irascible Engineer and two additional Appendices; Civil Aviation and Helicopter Development 1938-45 and the US Marine Corps 1942-48.

[lordroel]

Sept 23, 2021 17:39:08 GMT nicksumner said:

I am pleased to announce that the third part of my alternative history book series is soon to be published by Sea Lion Press. Drake's Drum: Currents of Fate, will be available as both a paperback book and as a Kindle e-book. The concluding part. Drake’s Drum: The Horizon of Our Hopes will be released next year.

There are updates to the website, including a new short story, The Irascible Engineer and two additional Appendices; Civil Aviation and Helicopter Development 1938-45 and the US Marine Corps 1942-48.

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Nice nicksumner, will check it out, to bad i did not have your third novel when i was on holiday, then i had something to read.

[nicksumner]

I'm very pleased to announce that the third part of Drake's Drum is now available.



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