In my mind anyway, the development of winged flyers will be kept more or less parallel to RL developments [i]at this point[/i] due to a balance between “why bother”, and “they don’t need electroid”.

The important questions you need to ask are:
- what can a RL 1910 airplane do to a 10,000 ton electrical flyer?
- What can RL 1910 airplanes usefully do that a 10,000 ton electrical flyer can’t do better?

(Note things like machine guns, aerial bombs, radios even parachutes lay well into the future in 1910)

It would add an interesting tactical tool though and I am sure that the developers would have thought of some of these issues, as well as counters. Perhaps the same technology that provides for torpedoes could be used in smaller craft, thus removing the heavier than air plane entirely.

The wait to see more of the rules for this game is becoming tangible. Do we have a publish date yet? Or even a forum (I know you are skinning it as we speak, just thought I would provide some impetus).

Now planes were made of fabric, wood and piano wire (most of them any way). But keep in mind this is a universe with flying battleships. Writers can easily change history with aircraft.

To limit aircraft to their exact historical counter part as to the imagination of flying battleships is kind of flawed. Aircraft should be introduced in such a way similar to its historical counter part. See Billy Mitchell’s project in 1921.