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Originally Posted by IronDuke99
To give an example of what I mean: In a alternate world where Germany is still a very powerful, agressive, nation then projects like the US Sabre F86, Russian Mig 15 and British Hawker Hunter all need to be moved up in time. Germany would never have the field to itself.
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The Ta-183 Huckbein, F-86, MiG-15 and Hunter would all cluster around the same time introduction (late 1940s), even with accelerated wartime development due to the peculiar characteristics of swept wings -- they're less forgiving of wing mismatches than straight winged aircraft -- in other words, the left/right wings have to be much closer to each other dimensionally than with a straight winged aircraft, or else one wing will stall before the other and cause a nasty spin.
Plus you're starting to encounter Mach Tuck in level flight (previously only encountered in high speed piston aircraft in dives), where your controls become steadily heavier and non-responsive as speed increases, and the nose drops and/or your controls reverse. Defeating that needs a lot of research into trans-sonic aerodynamics (and dead test pilots).