Random note; it's kind of difficult to have internal combustion engines practical enough for a 1930's-style biplane without some form of at least basic radio being developed.
It's possible that, having never seriously explored electricity beforehand, they never developed the telegraph, which would lead to an assumption of limited usefulness on the part of the most basic of spark-gap radios (without morse code or an equivalent, you're not going to get anything out of them but static). However, that leads me to question how they get the airplane's engine to run without some form of electrical ignition system for the combustion chamber. It would be amusing to consider how that might work... some sort of impact-driven piezoelectric effect, maybe, triggered by the motion of the cylinders?--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
It's possible that, having never seriously explored electricity beforehand, they never developed the telegraph, which would lead to an assumption of limited usefulness on the part of the most basic of spark-gap radios (without morse code or an equivalent, you're not going to get anything out of them but static). However, that leads me to question how they get the airplane's engine to run without some form of electrical ignition system for the combustion chamber. It would be amusing to consider how that might work... some sort of impact-driven piezoelectric effect, maybe, triggered by the motion of the cylinders?--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.