In an alternate WWII timeline, America is completely focused on fighting Japan as an act of vengeance, Britain and the USSR are focused on Germany, Canada is focused on Italy, and the other allied countries are focused on the other Axis countries, with at most two from either side working together. Britain is losing the war in the skies and they bribe the IAC to work with them. And Irish aircraft designer Ian Wilson took the spotlight with something that the IAC was hiding from the public for a long time... Designed in 1936 when Ian was only a late teen, this attack plane proved flight-worthy and excellent at fighting bombers and ground targets. However, planes like this one do not work very well in a dogfight against fighters like the infamously versatile Messerschmitt Bf 109. To solve this, for every Wilson D-41, there were 2 Hawker Hurricanes for protection. Despite how Ian wanted the name to be the year it was designed, the IAC decided that it would be better to have its year of introduction instead. In this alternate timeline, Britain would not have the lead in 1942, had this plane not been introduced to them. Because of Britain's lead that was most definitely caused by the plane, it was given the nickname "Hope" in 1942.