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    Matsura Asuka
    Head Designer for Ohara Airworks
    Age 24 (Legally 25)
    Year 12 AF (After Flight)

    Design Stats
    Aerodynamics Engineering - +2
    Structural Engineering - +2
    Chemical Engineering - +1
    Mechanical Engineering - +1
    Ballistics Engineering - +1
    Electrical Engineering - 0

    Personal/Political Stats
    Social Skills - 0
    Politics Skills - 0
    Importance - 2
    Income - 1
    Investments - Ohara

    Resources
    Power - 0
    Wealth - 2

    Designs
    Type 1 Series - Military Variation (Designated T1M1)
    Type 2 Racer (World Speed Record October 1910-April 1911, 180kph)
    Model 2 Scout (Designated T1M2)
    Navy Scout Prototype (Drowned Rat)
    Dive Bomber B1M1 "Duck"
    Machine Gun Carrier R1A "Dragonfly" (World Speed Record May-July 1911, 200kph)
    Naval Rescue Water-Landing Supply Plane NR1M0 "Dolphin" (World speed record 240kph)
    Rhino Demon Train Hunter
    The world's first airliner
    The world's first pulsejet airplane

    Assets
    Slide Rule
    Computator (1 Reroll per Routine)

    Languages
    Albian
    Gallian

    Familiar Vices
    Drinking
    Prostitutes
    Dancing

    Family Life
    - Engaged to Arita Yachi, formerly the leading Ace in the Imperial Army. Designated #1 Cutest Army Boy, he's having some serious problems with PTSD right now.
    - Taking a second try at dating Mikami Kiho, ex-dockerwork from the south.

    Upgrades
    - 3 XP to upgrade a stat.

    Ohara Airworks
    Start Up, Imperial Capital, Akitsukuni

    Owner
    - Mr. Ohara, Rich. Aircraft Enthusiast. Business guy.

    Engineers

    Kibe Koume, 26, Office Manager
    Tiny & angry, Kibe went to school in Albia, picking up the language, the religion, and a fuckload of swear words. Speaks Albian.
    Mechanical +2, Ballistics +1
    Office Manager: If Kibe is not assigned to a team, the Office Stress is reduced by 1.

    Sakane Jun, 26, Second Team Leader
    A soured patriot, Sakane is married and has a young child being raised gender-neutrally. His two brothers who fought in the war.
    Structural +2, Aerodynamics +1
    Team Leader: If there are any additional projects, Sakane will lead them.
    Joinery: Sakane has training in the traditional Akitsukuni carpentry art of joinery, creating complex self-supporting joints with no fasteners or glue. When working with non-monocoque wooden spars or ribs, +1 Structural.

    Tezuka Kenji, ???
    A stoner with occasional flashes of insight. Nobody really knows what he does, but he's probably useful?
    Aerodynamics +2, Chemical +1
    Flashes of Brilliance: Each natural 10 rolled by any team Tezuka is assigned to gives +1 forward to the next research roll.

    Hasegawa Morio, 26
    A hopeless nerd with a photography habit, mostly on account of developing his own film, Hasegawa seems to do nothing but work and stack card houses, but somehow has an incredible attractive boyfriend. Speaks Gallian.
    Chemical +2, Ballistic +1
    Silent Workhorse: Hasegawa can work on two different projects at once for no cost to Office Stress, providing they use different stats.

    Kawamura Yosai, 25.
    Serially successful womanizer and incredibly attractive, Kawamura doesn't seem to have much of a personality outside of seducing women. Well, except for that time he seduced Asuka, which nobody talks about. Speaks Dyske.
    Structural +2, Electrical +1, Social +1
    Easily Distracted: If Kawamura is working on the same team as a female or non-binary employee, the team is at -1d10.

    Koide Hatsu, 24.
    One of the few female graduates of an Akitsukuni engineering school, Koide is brilliant and incredibly driven, but her first job at Akibara was both humiliating and exposed her to an abusive coworker. Her father is a rich businessman with factories in Joseon, and she's engaged to Ken from Castles of Steel. Speaks Joseon.
    Mechanical +2, Structural +1
    No Sleep: If you let her, Koide will work herself to death. She can work a second project for no Office Stress, but all her stats will be reduced to 1 for the routine.

    Kobayashi Ayao, ???
    Disowned heiress of the Kobayashi family, all Kobayashi wanted was a career and to be a modern woman. For her trouble, a cousin threw acid on her, scarring her face, neck, much of her torso, and her left arm. Despite appearing serene and above it all, she's actually an avowed communist activist and baseball player.
    Aerodynamics +2, Social +2

    Adachi Ren, 24
    Adachi learned chemistry from her father, one of the most famous chemical engineers in the country, rather than through formal schooling. She's married, has a kid, and takes spirituality very seriously. Yes, you did the math right, she had Yuki when she was 17. It's 1912, folks.
    Chemical +2, Electrical +1
    Young Mother: Adachi will cause double Office Stress if she has to work multiple tasks.

    Uyeno Sei, Ballistics Engineer, 31.
    The oldest member of the crew, this is Uyeno's second career. Her first was as an officer in the Imperial Navy with specialized technical training: her very promising career was cut short by her transition. Her work in a naval arsenal on machine-guns landed her the job here. Briefly dated Satomi (the age range is a bit creepy but again, 1912), she's missing a piece of her ear and is deaf on that side, from an exploding cannon. Recently returned from Varnmark from experimental surgery, she's known for her skill navigating gendered bureaucracy.
    Ballistic +3

    Mi Kyung-Jae, 23
    A recent graduate of the Imperial College of Heijo, Mi is from the recently annexed territory of Joseon. For those keeping track at home, that means he's a Korean national living in Imperial Japan in 1912. We haven't seen much of his personality because he's rightfully terrified of everything around him. He has a specialty in endurance engine design and modification. Speaks Joseon.
    Mechanical +1, Chemical +1
    Endurance Engines: Mi has an excellent understanding of metallurgy and tolerances. Any engine he works on gains +1 Reliability if a 16+ is rolled.
    Pulsejet Wizard: Mi is now one of the world's leading experts on the pulsejet engine. He can be given his own project to custom-craft pulsejet engines, and he gives +1 to any pulsejet-related project.
    Joseon National: Mi does not have security clearance to work on any top-secret projects.

    Miyoshi Shigeri, 23.
    A non-binary person and admirer of Asuka's work, they were in an support role in the Army before joining the company.
    Structural +1, Mechanical +1, Aerodynamic +1
    Mechanic: Miyoshi has some experience repairing and refurbishing aircraft. They get +1 if assigned on the clean-up phase.


    Other Employees
    - Ohara Satomi, 22, Mr. Ohara's niece and the company test pilot, Ohara is a general lesbian disaster. She's good at flying planes, driving cars, and kissing girls. She's bad at being patient, being respectable, and sticking to literally anyones conceptions of gender roles. Deeply in lesbians with Coralie D'Amboise.
    - Fujkikawa Sotatsu, old, modelmaker. He's an old man and toymaker and we don't see much of him because he locks himself in his workshop a lot. He's friends with Kawamura?

    Assets
    - Engine Test Rig (Allows engine tweaking and optimization.
    - Wind Tunnel (+1 Aerodynamics)
    - Rapid Prototype Lab (+1 Clean Up)
    Expanded Cast

    Akitsukuni Industry
    - Homura Mohoko: Head Engine Designer for Kobayashi. First female engineer in the country. A lot of sex appeal.
    - Okumura: Head of Akibara aircraft design.
    - Yamanaka Hajime: Kobayashi engineer. Young and eager.
    - Igarashi Masazumi: Kobayashi engineer. Reserved and experienced.
    - Admiral Akibara Toru: Imperial Navy Admiral. Maximum nepotism. Maximum douchebag.
    - Lt.Cmnd Akibara Shinzo: The above's son. A hottie but very forward.



    Character Families
    - Matsura(?) Mizuko: Asuka's sister. Was paralyzed in an accident in Asuka's first flight. Lives Elsewhere and is married now. Can't forgive Asuka, even though she's tried.
    - Adachi Motoki: Adachi's husband, an accountant. Legally blind.
    - Adachi Yuki: Adachi's 7 year old daughter and wannabe pilot. Very adorable.
    - Yachi's Brother: Exists.
    - Sakane's Wife: Exists. Drives him a bit crazy, but he loves her.
    - Yachi's Brother's Wife: Exists. Is statistically likely to be pregnant.
    - Lt. Coralie D'Amboise: Gallian pilot in exile. Satomi's girlfriend. 25. Accomplished bisexual duelist. She flew in the war for a single day, and for her troubles got a hole blown in her cheek and had her left arm paralyzed.

    Akisukuni Army & Ex-Army
    - Lt. Torio Tanaka: Yachi's former observer as an enlisted man. Was jumped up to fly Ducks and lost a leg on his first mission. A trained painter, married to Torio Saya.
    - Captain Amari Shiro: A Dragonfly pilot who ended up flying as Yachi's partner. Kind of delightfully twinky. They sorta slept together at one point, which wasn't great. He lost his previous boyfriend in the April Offensive and turned his plane into a shrine. He was shot in the gut and is still recovering.
    - Major Izuhara: Logistics officer, Imperial Army, this bespectled officer stood up to the Caspian Crown Prince and accidentally kicked off the Akitsikuni-Caspian War. The guilt was so much that, after almost a year of running Army procurement, he shot himself in a phone both.
    - Captain Nakai Sekien: Army scout pilot. First person to drop a bomb from an airplane, later head of the Duck Squadrons.
    - Captain Teshima: A Desk pilot that fought with Yachi. Lost an arm in the process, took over for Major Izuhara after his death. Seems cheery despite it all.
    - Captain Nashio: A real piece of shit dude and probably a rapist, he's also a war hero as the second-highest scoring ace on the Akitsukuni side. He was a young shitty kid in way over his head but it's no excuse.
    - Lt. Kinjo: Kind of a dumb lump and Nashio's friend, one of the desk pilots. Dead at 19.
    - Lt. Okazaki: Yachi's friend from before the war and pilot, he died in a spin in his dragonfly. His death probably hit Yachi the hardest.

    Westerners
    - Rose & Antoinette Sears: Pioneers of flight. Sisters. Black in 1910s not!America. Yikes.
    - Timina Guasti: Famous aircraft designer from Otrusia. Likes big planes and green.
    - Prince Protasov Vasilyevich: Crown Prince of Great Caspia. Real dick. You gotta hand it to him though, a decent flier.
    - Count von Zeppelin: Invented rigid airships. Runs a successful airline business. Damned impressive.
    - Bennhold: Aircraft Engineer. Experimenting with metal aircraft.
    - Aileen Middlemiss: Albian reporter for the Artimis Times. Well meaning and oblivious.
    Available Tech
    • Materials: Wood, Duralumin, Molded Wood, Wood & Silk Composite, etc
    • All engine mounts
    • All wing types
    • Basic reinforcement
    • Wing warping and ailerons
    • Basic water radiators
    • Flying Wings
    • Semi-Monocoque design (requires at least half the slots have frame pieces)
    • Valved pulsejets
    • Basic weapon mounts and turrets
    Tech not Yet Developed
    • Custom engines
    • Monocoque construction
    • Cantilever Wings and associated tech
    • V and T tails
    • Tailless designs
    • Aluminum and titanium
    • Cellulose surfacing
    • Any kind of radar
    • Weapon accessability mods
    • Interruptor gear
    • Geared propellers
    • And Maybe Other Stuff
    Akitsukuni
    Island Nation

    Government
    Constitutional Monarchy
    - The democratic portions of the government are dubiously legitimate.
    - The head of state is the Empress of Akitsukuni. She gives her blessing to newly formed governments.
    - The Navy and a small number of families have undue influence on politics.

    Economy
    Developing Mixed Market
    - Most industry is controlled by a small number of wealthy, family-owned companies.
    - The state provides most contracts to industry. Consumer good market is anemic.
    - Exports are few, mostly cultural.
    - Imports are raw minerals, food, oil, and expertise.
    - Currently suffering an economic crash after the last war.

    Politics
    The Diet is currently ruled by a Constitutional Nationalist government. It has a system of nonlocal proportional representation, with representatives appointed by the party in accordance to their share of the vote.
    - Constitutional Nationalists: 50%
    - Purity Club: 9%
    - New Independents: 26%
    - Fairness Association: 11%
    - United Communist League: 2%
    - Monarchists: 1%
    - Assorted Fringe Parties: 5%

    Demographics
    Akitsukuni is mostly very ethnically homogeneous. Around 5% of the population are various minorities, most from nearby countries. Roughly .1% are westerners here for business or in advisory positions.
    - Population: 55 Million
    - Religion: Mostly Kodo. Roughly 2% of the population follows western religions.
    - Wealth: Most wealth is concentrated in the top 5% of the country. Nearly 20% of the population lives in conditions indistinguishable from peasantry.
    - Urbanization: Heavily urbanized for a small economy: 35% and rapidly growing.

    Military
    At Peace
    - Imperial Akitsukuni Navy (IAN): The 6th largest in the world, and the most experienced.
    - Imperial Akitsukuni Army (IAA): 150,000 highly experienced soldiers, and a considerable reserve.

    Aspects
    - Poor Resources: Aluminum costs +1.
    - Damn Akitsukuni Engines!: Engines have -1 Reliability.



    The Main Character Of This Quest Is Nonbinary And Uses They/Them Pronouns.

    I Am Putting This Here Because The Next Person To Misgender Them Is Getting Yeeted Into The Trash

    Also here's the Gayaverse TV Tropes page, because why not.​
     
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    • If you wanted to describe Asuka and Yachi's situation poetically, maybe go with seabirds who fly out on their own but always return to the same nest and to each other?
     
    open_sketchbook said:
    You were going to marry this man, and nothing could make you happier.

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    The next update is the vote on the planes so doublecheck your stuff and get me a final list of contenders! Limit one plane per submitter, please, it's getting out of hand around here.​
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    D'awww.

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    Oh geez, we got a lot of ideas to narrow down.


    I think, if we can get it down one-ish each of:
    1. Just the basics.
    2. More capability (passengers/fuel/cargo/amphibious/STOL/whatever), but misses (a) stretch goal(s).
    3. More capability (passengers/fuel/cargo/amphibious/STOL/whatever), but Flight Stress 2.
    4. More capability (passengers/fuel/cargo/amphibious/STOL/whatever), but paper.
    -then we'll have a decent spread of options.

    Current, definite submissions:
    • My Donkey-Lite. Category 1 or 2 (with hybrid floats: +Amphibious, -10kph short of speed stretch goal)
    • @Himmelhand's Dogfish. Category 2 (+Amphibious, -insufficient range for colonies)
    • @someplaneguy's STOL In Paper. Category 4 (+STOL, +like really, seriously STOL, +we're talking land on a postage stamp here, -paper, -60kph short of speed stretch goal at colonial range [can fly home islands routes at goal speed])
    • @samdamandias' JER1-Paper. Category 4 (+STOL, -paper, +/-not as STOL as @someplaneguy's, but full speed at colonial range)
    @brmj has a ton of designs and I have no idea which one he's (she's? they're? going with he until someone mentions otherwise) going to submit, though if he goes with one of the big closed-wing designs that'll cover Category 3.

    I don't know if anyone else is planning to submit a design, or if so what sort?
     
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    If possible I would really like to vote for which type of extra capability (if we want one at all) we'd like first, then vote on the specific plane/plane configuration. Both STOL and amphibious have two very good designs with enough differences to make an interesting vote. If just the basics or extra passenger/cargo wins then there is only one design/designer that fits that category anyways and there is no need for a second vote. Although I won't complain if Sketch would rather move on to the next arc than spend two updates collecting votes, that's a perfectly good option too.
     
    Well, amphibious can be tacked on to pretty much any design trivially enough (at the cost of ~20kph top speed), and we've already been promised a second round after a design is chosen to propose and vote on modifications to it, so I'd be surprised if Sketch went for a third one on top of it.
     
    Unconventional workaround time.

    Does anyone have one or more of my designs that they either would want to vote for, or feel strongly ought to make it to the final vote? I propse that we compile a short list, and if it is more than one but small enough to be semi-reasonable, interested parties with no designs of their own can adopt all but one. If just using my designs unmodifed isn't acceptable, it should be possible to make use of the mass margin a little differently or tweak wing structure or something.

    And for the record, "he" works fine. I'll also accept "they", I guess. I'm very likely something other than 100% cis, but haven't really bothered to completely figure out the details. Whatever else may be going on, I'm close enough to male that I mostly just go with that, and any of the relatively common alternatives would be a less comfortable fit. Agender is probably the second best fit, but it isn't really right either and the answer isn't going to be just picking the right point on sone kind of spectrum from one to the other. All together sort of an awkward spot where there's just enough going on that I notice it and it bothers me just a bit every now and then, but little enough that even acknowledging it publically at all feels like it runs the risk of taking up space that other people need and deserve more, if that makes any sense?

    Pretty sure this is the first time I've put that into writing or shared it with anyone else. So, congratulations to me I guess? This is probably supposed to feel liberating or something, but it doesn't really feel like much of anything at all. Other than that not wanting to take up space or invalidate people thing, the main reasons I haven't are mostly just that it doesn't even matter to me all that much, doesn't really feel like anyone else's business and because of a suspicion that people trying to be supportive in ways I don't actually need or want would grow annoying or awkward quickly.
     
    Grek said:
    The whole "everyone can date one man and one woman" thing is really stupidly unfair to poor Matsura. >_>
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    Depends on how they choose to define the absent section, I guess. Everyone can date one man, one woman and as many enbies as they like?

    Chopak said:
    Sorry, but what are the implications of Flight Stress 2?
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    The pilots have to put in more work to control the plane because it's large or difficult to manoeuvre. Per actual Flying Circus rules what this means is that they have to do more drinking, carousing and screwing after every flight to prevent them becoming burned out, in the quest it's more likely to have other narrative effects like more crashes on landing after long flights due to fatigued pilots or worse sortie generation rates (what's the civil term for this again?) to prevent pilot fatigue.

    Or everything is fine apart from the pilots whining that their arms hurt a bit. Depends how the dice land, really. I don't see it as a dealbreaker but then I don't see treated paper as a dealbreaker either so that's just me. (If this thing catches fire over the open sea everyone is going to die. Treated paper construction just means they die quickly.)
     
    Cute (and sad) update. I'm kinda glad Yachi appears to want to date people. It's a sign he wants to keep living. Also, he suggested they leave the house in order to cheer up Matsura, which is another good sign. Yachi might just get through this.

    Did not realize Matsura wears a binder. I kinda assumed their HRT stuff was mostly just antiandrogens. I though a person needed estrogen and/or progesterone to develop breasts.
     
    Chopak said:
    Sorry, but what are the implications of Flight Stress 2?
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    Really it's more the implications of Flight Stress 1: if nothing else goes wrong, you can fly somewhere, fly back the next day, cuddle your sweetheart, and not have to go carousing at all.

    In practice, for this sort of thing, it's either "more tired pilots screw up causing accidents" or "plane is too exhausting to fly daily, airlines have to hire twice as many pilots to run the same routes" or something between the two.

    Or, yeah, could just be "pilots complain their arms are tired", like @FrangibleCover said.

    Anyway, it's not a hard dealbreaker, but it's something to keep in mind.

    brmj said:
    Unconventional workaround time.

    Does anyone have one or more of my designs that they either would want to vote for, or feel strongly ought to make it to the final vote? I propse that we compile a short list, and if it is more than one but small enough to be semi-reasonable, interested parties with no designs of their own can adopt all but one.
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    Not that I'm in a position to adopt one, but in the interests of compiling a list: I would like to see at least your Dugong and Dromedary in the vote. The Dugong is the most broadly capable design we've seen so far (and the one I plan to vote for), and the Dromedary is a safe conventional choice that I feel like ought to be at least available as an option for people to vote for.

    The Dagon and Fast Droop-Wing are both good designs, but they're quite similar in performance to other things we have available, while the Dugong and Dromedary are both meaningfully distinct choices with significant practical performance differences.

    brmj said:
    And for the record, "he" works fine. I'll also accept "they", I guess.
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    Duly noted, thanks.
     
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    ancusohm said:
    Cute (and sad) update. I'm kinda glad Yachi appears to want to date people. It's a sign he wants to keep living. Also, he suggested they leave the house in order to cheer up Matsura, which is another good sign. Yachi might just get through this.

    Did not realize Matsura wears a binder. I kinda assumed their HRT stuff was mostly just antiandrogens. I though a person needed estrogen and/or progesterone to develop breasts.
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    you do need some sex hormone, either one, if you want to keep things like bones in your body. asuka wanted the same thing but their doctor was quite insistent, so asuka takes a (relatively low) dose of estrogen as well. Asuka then proceeded to essentially starve themselves a little instead in a desperate bid to avoid breast and hips.

    honestly there isn't a lot to bind and they could probably get away with it but Asuka is Asuka and won't settle for that.
     
    open_sketchbook said:
    you do need some sex hormone, either one, if you want to keep things like bones in your body. asuka wanted the same thing but their doctor was quite insistent, so asuka takes a (relatively low) dose of estrogen as well.
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    I know absolutely nothing about this, but could one in theory take alternating low doses of oestrogen and testosterone to maintain an overall androgynous hormonal mix?

    thepsyborg said:
    Not that I'm in a position to adopt one, but in the interests of compiling a list: I would like to see at least your Dugong and Dromedary in the vote. The Dugong is the most broadly capable design we've seen so far (and the one I plan to vote for), and the Dromedary is a safe conventional choice that I feel like ought to be at least available as an option for people to vote for.
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    I'll certainly be getting into the aircraft design game so I'd be happy to start myself off with an licensed clone of someone else's design, as all the best aircraft companies do :V. Tell me what you want me to do. I'd prefer to adopt the Dromedary as an option that I personally won't be voting for but one that I can see the attraction of, but if this is a cheaty way of doing things per Sketch then I won't.
     
    So hot take on a alternative revenue stream:

    Investing in a car company. Think that'd work? I mean, I can think of at least one company that did planes and cars.....
     
    Night_stalker said:
    So hot take on a alternative revenue stream:

    Investing in a car company. Think that'd work? I mean, I can think of at least one company that did planes and cars.....
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    I mean, as something for Mr. Ohara to be doing in his spare time/with his spare funds, possibly. (I don't think he has a lot of either of those [he's wealthy, but most of it is tied up in existing companies, and it's come up in story that Ohara Airworks is being far more successful and taking up far more of his time than he expected], though if our airliner is a success he might in a few years.) As something for Matsura to get involved in in-story...not really? It's outside their interest, their expertise, and the intended scope of the quest.

    Oh, and since I forgot to respond to this earlier:
    FrangibleCover said:
    but then I don't see treated paper as a dealbreaker either so that's just me. (If this thing catches fire over the open sea everyone is going to die. Treated paper construction just means they die quickly.)
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    I don't object to treated paper on safety grounds- totally agree, the difference is entirely irrelevant. My problem is on marketing and public perception grounds- we're going to have imitators fairly quickly if this is profitable, and "would you trust your self or your loved ones to a paper plane?" is a really, really easy way for competitors to attack us- even if their planes aren't actually any safer.
     
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    FrangibleCover said:
    I'm pretty sure Akibara are gay!Mitsubishi. We're more like Nakajima, so we should be going engines because that worked out so well in real life.
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    Not quite the company I was thinking of.

    thepsyborg said:
    I mean, as something for Mr. Ohara to be doing in his spare time/with his spare funds, possibly. (I don't think he has a lot of either of those [he's wealthy, but most of it is tied up in existing companies, and it's come up in story that Ohara Airworks is being far more successful and taking up far more of his time than he expected], though if our airliner is a success he might in a few years.) As something for Matsura to get involved in in-story...not really? It's outside their interest, their expertise, and the intended scope of the quest.
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    Eh, just me musing.
     
    thepsyborg said:
    I don't object to treated paper on safety grounds- totally agree, the difference is entirely irrelevant. My problem is on marketing and public perception grounds- we're going to have imitators fairly quickly if this is profitable, and "would you trust your self or your loved ones to a paper plane?" is a really, really easy way for competitors to attack us- even if their planes aren't actually any safer.
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    I also agree. I prefer flight stress 1 and no paper very strongly. Remember, most pioneering ideas fail, and it's often due to marketing rather than actual product quality. The donkey-lite, with or without amphibious additions, is currently my favorite. We need a workhorse and one that is perceived as reliable and safe above all else.

    We need to sell this idea enough that it takes off in a society that for all its forward leaps is still very traditional, with money concentrated mostly in a fairly conservative class, and initially the only people who will be able to afford plane tickets will be the wealthy, large companies, and the government. All of the designs are strong in what they can accomplish, so it comes down to avoiding exploitable weaknesses that might drive ticket sales down below sustainable levels.
     
    Night_stalker said:
    Not quite the company I was thinking of.
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    Surely you meant to link this ad, which is the original and good one.

    Diomedon said:
    I also agree. I prefer flight stress 1 and no paper very strongly. Remember, most pioneering ideas fail, and it's often due to marketing rather than actual product quality. The donkey-lite, with or without amphibious additions, is currently my favorite. We need a workhorse and one that is perceived as reliable and safe above all else.

    We need to sell this idea enough that it takes off in a society that for all its forward leaps is still very traditional, with money concentrated mostly in a fairly conservative class, and initially the only people who will be able to afford plane tickets will be the wealthy, large companies, and the government. All of the designs are strong in what they can accomplish, so it comes down to avoiding exploitable weaknesses that might drive ticket sales down below sustainable levels.
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    This is an excellent point, and it's further reinforced by the fact that this will be the only airliner on the market for a few years. We don't need to have special extra useful features because there's nothing for them to be special against. Whatever special features we do include will become standard features of airliners and then we'll be forced to either include/better them in the follow-up or set trends again by not including them.
     
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