#biplanes

[sprintingowl]

Flying Circus

Flying Circus is a game that looks extremely normal on the surface.

Okay, sure, there are biplanes and dragons. But the overall cover aesthetic evokes red box D&D, and there's barely a hint of the wild design choices lurking beneath.

Flying Circus is also a pbta game. This means Powered By The Apocalypse---broadly, a group of ttrpgs that are more narrative-y and story-game-y and collaborative in play.

So the last thing you'd expect here would be pages and pages of highly detailed biplane aviation physics and moves that model the affect of G-strain on the pilot and fuel burning at different rates at different altitudes.

Right?

Flying Circus is a game about running a biplane company in a post-WWI Hayao Miyazaki aesthetic german countryside. And like a Miyazaki movie, it's not non-violent. There's conflict and dragons and and ancient technology and horrifying things beyond comprehension---but there's also rolling hills and swaying grain fields and the overbearing beauty of a world un-industrialized.

Every player plays a pilot, builds their own plane (out of a *lot* of different component parts,) manages their stress levels between sorties, and engages in highly technical, heavily researched biplane combat where altitude is a currency and there's a million ways your plane can stall out, crash, and explode.

To say that Flying Circus is audacious is underselling it.

This is a high crunch game wearing the shell of a zero crunch game like an octopus in a coconut.

But it's tightly built, *very* comprehensive in what it lets you do while flying a plane, and tricky to learn but fun to try and master.

I am not smart enough for it, but I think it might be one of my favorite games I've read this year.

#flying circus #biplanes #ttrpg #ttrpgs #ttrpg design #indie ttrpg #pbta

[abtl]

I absolutely fucking love Spore's space stage. You can make your ship literally anything you desire. Anything.

Like imagine you're knee-deep in interstellar space and then a literal biplane from WWI zooms past you on its way to the next system

#beetle posts #beetle rambles #spore #I fucking love making my spaceships as goofy or out of place as I can #sailboats #biplanes #rockets #you name it #the world is your fucking canvas #and your painting will fly across the stars #well it doesn't really matter much when the 3000 Black Ships of the Grox are trying to kill you.

[uwmspeccoll]

Publishers’ Binding Thursday

I found this publishers’ binding while browsing the stacks on the hunt for a good one. My eye was drawn to the bright green bookcloth and then I saw the nice font and sweet little biplane on the cover. Once I looked inside, I noticed the bright, orange-red endpapers and the illustrations that show so much action and movement, one of which has a caption that starts “Listen, big boy...” 

The book is Doomed Demons by Eustace L. Adams (1981-1963), an American author best known for writing aviation adventure stories for boys. Doomed Demons was published in 1935 by Grosset & Dunlap in New York and features a story about WWI fighter pilots. The illustrations were done by J. Clemens Gretter (1904-1988), an artist and illustrator from Indiana who also worked as a cartoonist for comic books and signed much of his work “Clem Gretta” or simply “Gretta.”

View more Publishers’ Binding Thursday posts. 

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

#Publishers' Binding Thursday #publishers' bindings #airplanes #biplanes #war stories #WWI #Eustace L. Adams #Eustace Lane Adams #J. Clemens Gretter #Gretta #Grosset & Dunlap #illustrations #fighter pilots #Alice #big boy #endpapers #endsheets #illustrated endpapers

[aviatrix-ash]

82 year old gal with the mixed matched,faded, fuel stained, scruffy fabric. She's beautiful and perfect, I would absolutely trust her with my life <3

Never any better plane to fly than a clapped out old biplane. <3

#planes #planeposting #aviation #biplanes #boeing #boeing Stearman #avgeek

[1lifeinspired]

(via Pinterest)

#aviation #aircraft #airplanes #biplanes #vapor trail #flight

[stone-cold-groove]

Airplane rides with Al Coy, a well-known pilot.

#vintage illustration #biplanes #vintage aircraft

[geckoodles]

Strafe Run.

Remaster of this piece: [x]

#;alezart #battlefield 1 #biplanes #ww1 art #alex lanford #trollhunters #//obligatory th tag as one of the characters Is alex

[dragonbabezee]

♥️The Ace of Her Heart♥️ - chapter 5 is posted!

Two lovers must part for now, and return to their parts in the war.

Froglady15 and dragonbabezee's entry to the

@vegebulocracy #vbtimeaftertime event!

#Bulma #Vegeta #Vegebul #vegebul fanfiction #fan fic #fan fiction #dbz #dbz fanfiction #WWI #historical #biplanes #espionage #vbtimeaftertime

[saddlebums]

Proper British Bikes at Bikes and Breakfast... ...and Proper British behavior at Van Sant Historic Airfield

It was all unofficial of course, but a plethora of British iron some how (cheeky!) made its way to Bikes & Breakfast in Palisades, New York this past Sunday. After that I rode my imitation Brit bike (Kawasaki W800 Cafe) to the Van Sant Historic Airfield in Erwinna, Pennsylvania. Still on a high from seeing British front drum brakes I channeled the naughty Benny Hill -- and got away with it without being given what for.

Music: God Save the King performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton, conductor, and Mr. Airplane Man by Howlin' Wolf (yes, I combined them indeed)

#Bikes & breakfast #british motorcycles #triumph motorcycles #bsa motorcycles #Kawasaki w800 cafe #Van Sant historic airfield #biplanes #covered bridges #turbosteve #saddle bums #Hudson valley motorcycle touring #Delaware valley motorcycle touring #Vincent motorcycles #benny hill #Youtube

[nocternalrandomness]

Albatros D.II lleading an Albatros DVa-1

#Biplanes #WW1 German aircraft #Vintage planes #Luftstreitkrafte #Fighter planes #Albatros D.II #Albatros DVa-1

[robthepensioner]

A pair of biplanes flying very close to each other at Blackpool Airshow 2022.

#biplanes #blackpool #blackpool airshow #air display #crowd

[oer4]

I just learned a key tactical technique for an aerial battle: If I'm ever in a #dogfight with several enemy #WW1 #biplanes, it's best for me to try to stay in the middle of them, because they can't shoot at each other or risk colliding. So, I've got that going for me. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBgNywsdQ0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#dogfight #ww1 #biplanes

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“An aircraft carrier and its brood. An unusual photograph showing planes aboard the Lexington, warming up for flight. During rough weather, they are billeted below.”

- from the Toronto Star. October 21, 1932. Page 25.

#uss lexington #lexington class #aircraft carrier #flight deck #biplanes #carrier air group #united states navy #the great depression #interwar period

[carlo-varo-artistic-designs]

(via "Airplanes" Poster for Sale by Carlo Varo)

#findyourthing #redbubble #carlo varo #abstract #surreal #biplanes #retro #fine art #popular #cool #trendy #trippy #colorful #nature #elegant #vintage #stylish #gift

[aviatrix-ash]

mods are asleeb again

 post replica ww1 planes i’ve met :)

#look im a simple gal who likes planes but i dont need much but i do need to fly an opencockpit biplane one day #ijust think theyre neat :) #planes #planeposting #homebuilt airplane #kitplanes #ww1 planes #ww1 aircraft #biplanes #experimental aircraft

[o5qih2lhe]

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