Aerolineas
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How does one create a setting for their storytelling here?
My first submissions were rejected. Apparently for identifying specific people and places within the story to provide context, although that was never specifically said ...
Commentators have suggested that the site doesn't wan't to deal with persons who might take offence at being included in an erotic story -- although I have seen tons of stories here that identify real people and things in real life.
The ‘universe’ runs roughly chronologically from 1913 to the present day and is told in multiple stand alone stories that would be published in alphabetical order and reference the earlier stories. But since few today can conceptualize 1973, let alone 1913, I wanted to provide some context.
Realizing that there is but one arbiter I was wondering if something like this example might “fly.” Or if anyone had a better idea or example. (It is a 339 word disclaimer and introduction to the first few stories.)
In 1912, brothers Alan and Malcom built a flying boat of their own design, and taught themselves to fly it. To raise money to start a manufacturing company they flew it to Los Angeles, California where they earned money flying people to Catalina Island out in the bight. They also flew camera men from Hollywood motion picture studios around filming the city and its surroundings for ‘stock footage’ to use in motion pictures.
They hired Jack and set up shop in a rented garage, where they built a bigger twin-engine seaplane for the Catalina Island trade devoting the original to studio use. They built a third aircraft, a land plane, and tried to fly it to Ohio to be evaluated by the Army in 1916. It suffered failures from the heat crossing the Arizona desert. On two separate occasions they were forced to land when an engine quit. After the second time they returned to Los Angeles and built more seaplanes.
They designed a well regarded three-place airplane and successfully demonstrated it right before the war. They also manufactured seaplanes (under a licence agreement) that Glenn had designed for the Navy. After the war they faced a tough business environment. The government was selling brand new crated aircraft as surplus for the 1919 equivalent of $US 3,020 (2020). The brothers' airplane cost six times as much.
In 1920 the three dissolved the company. Jack went to work for Don. Alan went into real estate before returning to building aircraft. Malcom started a company that made hydraulic systems, notably brakes. But this story isn’t about US aviation pioneers Alan and Malcom Loughead and Jack Northrop.
The foregoing is fact, this story is a work of fiction. It’s about some completely different people, all eighteen years of age or older, who were second to start an airline to Santa Catalina. The airplane they built for evaluation in Dayton Ohio was wrecked in the desert. Nobody asked them to build anything. Nobody remembers their names. But then nobody ever remembers who came in second place.
My first submissions were rejected. Apparently for identifying specific people and places within the story to provide context, although that was never specifically said ...
Commentators have suggested that the site doesn't wan't to deal with persons who might take offence at being included in an erotic story -- although I have seen tons of stories here that identify real people and things in real life.
The ‘universe’ runs roughly chronologically from 1913 to the present day and is told in multiple stand alone stories that would be published in alphabetical order and reference the earlier stories. But since few today can conceptualize 1973, let alone 1913, I wanted to provide some context.
Realizing that there is but one arbiter I was wondering if something like this example might “fly.” Or if anyone had a better idea or example. (It is a 339 word disclaimer and introduction to the first few stories.)
In 1912, brothers Alan and Malcom built a flying boat of their own design, and taught themselves to fly it. To raise money to start a manufacturing company they flew it to Los Angeles, California where they earned money flying people to Catalina Island out in the bight. They also flew camera men from Hollywood motion picture studios around filming the city and its surroundings for ‘stock footage’ to use in motion pictures.
They hired Jack and set up shop in a rented garage, where they built a bigger twin-engine seaplane for the Catalina Island trade devoting the original to studio use. They built a third aircraft, a land plane, and tried to fly it to Ohio to be evaluated by the Army in 1916. It suffered failures from the heat crossing the Arizona desert. On two separate occasions they were forced to land when an engine quit. After the second time they returned to Los Angeles and built more seaplanes.
They designed a well regarded three-place airplane and successfully demonstrated it right before the war. They also manufactured seaplanes (under a licence agreement) that Glenn had designed for the Navy. After the war they faced a tough business environment. The government was selling brand new crated aircraft as surplus for the 1919 equivalent of $US 3,020 (2020). The brothers' airplane cost six times as much.
In 1920 the three dissolved the company. Jack went to work for Don. Alan went into real estate before returning to building aircraft. Malcom started a company that made hydraulic systems, notably brakes. But this story isn’t about US aviation pioneers Alan and Malcom Loughead and Jack Northrop.
The foregoing is fact, this story is a work of fiction. It’s about some completely different people, all eighteen years of age or older, who were second to start an airline to Santa Catalina. The airplane they built for evaluation in Dayton Ohio was wrecked in the desert. Nobody asked them to build anything. Nobody remembers their names. But then nobody ever remembers who came in second place.
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