Previous / Next Gearing Up Written by Sean Massey Happy AcresOctober 1633 “Du dummes, undankbares Stück scheiße!” Jost Neubert screamed. He waved his arms and hit the old John Deere Model B tractor with his hat. The tractor hadn’t seen this much work in decades, and steam now poured out of the radiator. “Warum jetzt??” Jost […]

Previous / Next One Step Toward the Clouds Written by Sean Massey Hans Richter FieldNear GrantvilleDecember 1633 Marie Moritz concentrated hard as she lined her plane up for final approach. The drone of the engines poured from the speakers next to the monitor as she fought a thirty mile-per-hour crosswind within a simulated Cessna. Although she […]

Previous / Next Ultralight by Sean Massey Wismar, GermanyMarch, 1635 Flight had taken hold of Johann Rommel. Since the thirty-something merchant from Wismar first saw the American air force in action last October, he had decided he wanted one of their strange flying beasts, something they called an air craft, for himself. After several months of […]