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...Do I get to say "first"?
I see orgies in the future.
Nice chapter, I like where this is going.
Oh God, I see human-on-Luna sexytimes in the future, if not orgies like 6468833 said.
You might want to do a sweep for errors, I saw about 2 or 3 dotted around.
Caught up.
My "Next Chapter" button is missing... I want my button back.
See later.
Woot update... Then the waiting begins again
This is great. The protagonist is unusual and I am really liking the world building you are doing so far, although I am kinda wondering why this isn't in the Xenophilia group because you seem to share quite a bit of world building with them.
This doesn't make sense. According to the page, those kits have aluminum frames fastened together with bolts and rivets like you would expect for a kit aircraft. That means welding is out of the question for the average person because aluminum welding is tricky and requires special equipment. It is possible to acquire the equipment and skills needed to do this yourself, but it will be thousands of dollars to do so and welding will also require a steady supply of shielding gas along with huge amounts of power and a constant risk of serious problems so the kits are designed to avoid the need for welding so he shouldn't have been using a welder to assemble The Baron.
6449429 I have to disagree with you on this, probably because I am a lot like the main character in this area and see exactly what is going on. He is not an overly emotional person and focuses more on problems and solutions than feelings and memories. Thus when he is going over The Baron, he is not diving into memories or being overly emotional about never going home because he is too busy loving the machine and making sure to do right by it. Replacing the skin is an important repair task which he would rather loose himself in than spend time reflecting on which is why he moves on to getting the job done after a quick fond memory. Even as one of his only connection to his old life, the phone is at least as much a useful tool as it is a memento to him, first as a music player while he works and second as a conversation piece with Twilight. This whole scene is a perfect example of show, don't tell applied to a character with relatively muted emotions and a real love of machines. That is why it shows the machine in loving detail while glossing over the memories which are less important to him.
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Thank you!
The kit I linked isn't meant to be exactly what Shane used, just the closest real world analog. Shane is pretty handy with a MIG welder. He snagged one up cheep at an auction five or six years ago. Got his uncle to teach him how to use it. Fixing stuff for some of the other farms became a good second income for him. That's how he saved up enough to buy the parts for Baron.
6492244 Ah, that is more sophisticated than what most people have access to. I figured he was limited to a simple acetylene torch or something as a hobby item because there was no mention of him making money on this kind of stuff in the story, but a MIG welder would do the job. I also have my doubts that he would have the skill to weld aluminum because just about everything on a farm is steel which is much easier to weld, but with the equipment available and an interest in airplanes he could definitely have looked up how to do it and gotten some cheap aluminum to practice on.
That said, no kit is going to be designed on the assumption that the person making it has access to that kind of hardware so this still does no make sense for a stock kit airplane, but it is entirely possible that this was not a stock kit given his abilities and equipment. He could have saved quite a bit of money by getting bulk structural tubes and welding them into a frame himself based on data from historical aircraft (he could probably find most of the critical numbers online along with tons of reference pictures). It is also possible he modified a different kit into his Fokker due to cost and/or availability, although that probably wouldn't have needed very much welding or saved much money so it strikes me as less likely than an original build.
6498370
Hey,
Some of us the room are over thirty, and getting by just fine. A heathy diet and exercise go a long way.
Fuel should not be as big a problem as it seems. Kerosene lanterns are a thing alongside the firefly lanterns in the show, and gasoline & fuel oil/deisel are by-products of making kerosine.
Gasoline was simply thrown away, burned off, or commonly sold as solvent/paint remover.
That would be a fun discovery for him to make after inquiring about petroleum products. A little Ethyline, Ether or other additives to boost the octane and he's up, up and away!
6502000
Equestria is still on whale oil.
Joke aside, it's not that there isn't gasoline to be had, it's just a real pain to get. Easier to fine a work around. Ethanol, coal gas, or something. In Shane's place, wood gasification would be my first thought.
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Good one.
Commence read.
Finally get to read the few chapters I've missed.
Glad to see Luna being relaxed.
Diner. Not dinner.
Woah, woah. Detonation Drive? That is about a thousand times cooler and more 1950s "dreaming of the space-age" sounding than internal combustion engine. I love it.