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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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    • Poking my head in from the nerd thread.
    Trusses add lots of drag. I suggest either Bi-wing, or no wing at all, just body.

    I also suggest canards. They add that extra touch of speed, and they're awesome.
    [X] Build an utterly weird canard flying wing.
     
    It wouldn't really count as a flying wing if it was a biplane, would it?

    Clearly we want the control surfaces forward to keep them free of jet wash. Plus, less in the way for the jets to blow people's minds.

    [X] Build an utterly weird canard flying wing.
    [X] Monowing with trusses.
     
    As an aside: Flying Circus the Roleplaying Game finally comes out in 9 days. Thank you all for your help making it the best it can be.

    Not only will ADCQ continue, but the sparse updates on my quests of late is because I've been in crunch mode for it. When it's done, I'll be able to dedicate some real time to narrative writing again!
     
    [X] Sweep the wings back and use outboard controls. (+1 Stress)
    [X] Biwing with struts

    Swept wing go fast, and steel struts are crazy good.
    open_sketch said:
    You reached the section she was talking about and laughed. Akibara Complex had tried to make a seaplane which could land and fire torpedoes during the war, and it had failed spectacularly. The file mentioned, in several underlined areas, turning to 'other companies', with the heavy implications that said companies were Ohara Airworks.
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    Multiple torpedoes?
    The Fat Bastard only had the bomb capacity for one torpedo, and that had a six-person crew and a half-pounder QF in a turret
     
    I'm going to go ahead and make it a write in plan.
    [X] No Wings, Fuselage Only.

    Seriously though. Trusses are lots of drag, so fuselage only will be faster.
     
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    samdamandias said:
    Multiple torpedoes?
    The Fat Bastard only had the bomb capacity for one torpedo, and that had a six-person crew and a half-pounder QF in a turret
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    It's going to have to be an absolute unit of a plane, yeah. That said, we can probably have a version for use as an even bigger airliner than the one we've already got.
     
    We still have wingspan limitations that will make hefting multiple torpedoes tricky. Unless we build a larger assembly line with the prize money.

    Also, if we're going to sweep the wing we should do so forwards for maximum wtf aesthetic, especially while we're going slow enough that aeroelastic effects won't fold the wings into a pretzel.
     
    Only this quest can put Canards on a Hs-229 with V-1s strapped to the top.

    One of these days I am going to show these to an aerodynamic engineer just to see how applicable these designs are. Hell, if it gets that far I clearly have enough disposable money to making models for a wind tunnel. I've been surprised by how unintentionally viable fictional plane designs are before.
     
    If the navy wants to use a plane to launch torpedoes, they'd probably be better off developing an air dropped torpedo.

    Or if they really really insist, we could probably flog an Ekranoplan to Kobayashi and just get licensing fees. I mean, it's free real estate. And I mean, it would probably suit the navy just fine. It's less a plane and more a torpedo boat that can lift off a little when the weather is nice.

    Hell, if that doesn't work, we could probably build hydrofoils so even if it's not a plane, the navy can still satiate that need for speed.
     
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    Always Late said:
    Only this quest can put Canards on a Hs-229 with V-1s strapped to the top.

    One of these days I am going to show these to an aerodynamic engineer just to see how applicable these designs are. Hell, if it gets that far I clearly have enough disposable money to making models for a wind tunnel. I've been surprised by how unintentionally viable fictional plane designs are before.
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    Some of the planes aren't without historical precedent. The French tried a pusher plane with staggered wings as a fighter in WWI. If you messed around with the wing configurations just a bit you would end up with the Dragonfly. Link
     
    neutronium95 said:
    Some of the planes aren't without historical precedent. The French tried a pusher plane with staggered wings as a fighter in WWI. If you messed around with the wing configurations just a bit you would end up with the Dragonfly. Link
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    Heinrich flies this thing in Whispers from the Deep!
     
    Always Late said:
    One of these days I am going to show these to an aerodynamic engineer just to see how applicable these designs are.
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    Hi! I've got a bit of paper for plane things from a university. Having said that, 300kph Wright Flyer let's fucking go boys.

    [X] Build an utterly weird canard flying wing.
    [X] Biwing with struts

    Flying Circus is actually very good, spookily good, at building real aircraft given their real components. As a result I'm confident that the more normal looking aircraft are all completely technically achievable. However, I will say that I suspect some of the rules for weird aircraft are unrealistically lenient to make the strange configurations more tempting, so quite a lot of the O'Hara aircraft probably aren't quite doable. However, that's the fun of the thing.
     
    [X] Biwing with struts

    Trusting the math folks who've reported trusses as wildly inefficient, since I haven't had a chance to check myself for this design.
     
    A wing truss is like what a Fokker Eindecker has, with a post from the middle and the wing suspended from a series of wires connected to the post like a cable-stayed bridge. Struts are like what a Sopwith Camel has, with posts running between the wings to hold them apart and wires running crossways between the wings to hold them together. Trusses are more efficient for monoplanes and Struts are more efficient for biplanes and up.

    Trusses aren't actually bad in the latest rule set, as far as I can tell, but personally I want a biplane for wing shape reasons. The least draggy wing shape is one that is very long relative to its area, but a long wing creates structural issues. A biplane allows us to spread the area over two wings which means the span only has to be half as great. I expect the structural advantages granted by a biplane layout to allow fewer struts/trusses and provide overall decreased drag. Only an expectation, mind you.
     
    We're putting third engine at the top? So can we use it as our anchor for trusses I guess.

    [X] Monowing with trusses.
    [X] Build an utterly weird canard flying wing.

    I did some image googling, and I'm looking for this wing cofiguration:

    with third engine sticking up like here:
    And trusses going from the top engine to the wings.
     
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    Nice to see that Matsura hasn't lost their penchant for designing planes that only fly because the laws of physics are too scared to look at them closely.

    I don't hold a grudge against the navy, and their money spends as well as anyone's. The torpedo boat could be an interesting challenge.

    I wonder which is more difficult: building a plane that can land to launch torpedo or building torpedoes that you can launch from the air. In the Haruna quest, torpedoes look to be awful fiddly and fragile.
     
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