  In the context of the recent synchronicity problem in $\Lambda$CDM cosmology,
coasting models such as the classic Milne model and the $R_h=ct$ model have
attracted much attention. Also, a very recent analysis of supernovae Ia data is
reported to favour models with constant expansion rates. We point out that the
nonempty $R_h=ct$ model has some known antecedents in the literature. Some of
these are published even before the discovery of the accelerated expansion and
were shown to have none of the cosmological problems and also that $H_0t_0=1$
and $\Omega_m/\Omega_{dark \; energy}$ = some constant of the order of unity.
In this paper, we also derive such a model by a complex extension of scale
factor in the Milne model.
