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[Nirur Torir]

On the other hand, 2 dice should get us at least a prototype, and it probably wouldn't be as useful on mountains anyway.

[NUKE9.13]

Actually, yeah, that's a fair point, deploying a prototype unit would still earn us some brownie points from the army. And having our planes be more agile than our enemy's would bolster our precious, precious prestige.

JARC: (3) NUKE9.13, Nirur, Kashyyk
Feather Control Revision: (2) Nirur, NUKE9.13

E: Incidentally, a thing for the event:

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Not a winning entry, I feel, but hopefully good enough that we don't lose prestige for painting it on our planes. If anyone else can create/suggest something better, that'd be grand.

[Rockeater]

The question is how simple it needs to be

[Kashyyk]

I'd lose the K, and have the winged shield front and center. Otherwise, I like it!

JARC: (3) NUKE9.13, Nirur, Kashyyk
Feather Control Revision: (2) Nirur, NUKE9.13

Hold a die: (1) Kashyyk

[Rockeater]

JARC: (4) NUKE9.13, Nirur, Kashyyk, Rockeater
Feather Control Revision: (3) Nirur, NUKE9.13, Rockeater

Hold a die: (1) Kashyyk

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[NUKE9.13]

I'd lose the K, and have the winged shield front and center. Otherwise, I like it!

Like this?

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[10ebbor10]

Uhm.

-Feather-1914 Scout Plane: A unarmed, single seater biplane. High stability makes it easy to fly, but also woefully inadequate for anything other than scouting. Lightweight wooden fuselage combined with a five-cylinder rotary engine gives it good speed in the air. Cost 3/1

I don't see any stability issues that we would need to fix.

Also, the revision could use more fluff.

[Kashyyk]

If there's any way you can sharpen the edges of the icon that'd be good. I think we've got a solid logo here though.

[Nirur Torir]

As you watch, a scout plane circles around to an unsteady landing, yawing left and right until the plane veers into the thick hedge bordering the airfield. The driver snorts as the bruised pilot climbs out of his seat and struggles to disentangle his red cape from the brambles.

It might just be a very green pilot, but adding that with what we know of our counter-parts' plane makes me think that the Feathers don't have enough control.

[10ebbor10]

Basic control surfaces: wing warping, elevator and rudder

I believe the problem is that we're using wing warping. Since biplanes tend to have inflexible wings, such an approach cripples our roll response.

Rather than try to bend the entire wing, our new aileron system allows the pilot control over a hinged control surface at the trailing edge of the plane. This provides a tremendously improved roll control. As the system is very similar to existing rudder and elevator control, we expect no great trouble.

[Nirur Torir]

JARC: (4) NUKE9.13, Nirur, Kashyyk, Rockeater
Feather Control Revision: (2) NUKE9.13, Rockeater
Ailerons: (1) Nirur

Hold a die: (1) Kashyyk

[Rockeater]

JARC: (4) NUKE9.13, Nirur, Kashyyk, Rockeater
Feather Control Revision: (2) NUKE9.13
Ailerons: (2) Nirur, Rockeater

Hold a die: (1) Kashyyk

[Jilladilla]

JARC: (5) NUKE9.13, Nirur, Kashyyk, Rockeater, Jilladilla
Feather Control Revision: (1) NUKE9.13
Ailerons: (3) Nirur, Rockeater, Jilladilla

Hold a die: (1) Kashyyk

[Chiefwaffles]

hi yes I am here

JARC: (6) NUKE9.13, Nirur, Kashyyk, Rockeater, Jilladilla, Chiefwaffles
Feather Control Revision: (1) NUKE9.13
Ailerons: (4) Nirur, Rockeater, Jilladilla, Chiefwaffles

Hold a die: (1) Kashyyk

Two questions to the GM:
1.) Can we change the pilot training academy place-thing, or is that just set in stone like the dice infrastructure?
2.) How limited to the time period will we be with designs? I of course expect reasonable difficulty for improving our aircraft, but how "soft-capped" are we by the historical technological development of aircraft at the current moment in history?


EDIT:

Thoughts on this for the event?


I feel like it could use a little more pizazz and something showing it as more of an aerial logo, but I like what I have so far. Any feedback?
(I mostly tried to work this off of the "people's cross" mentioned in the OP)

[Kashyyk]

Again, I don't think we need a K in there. Maybe stick Nuke's winged shield in the center instead?