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Discuss this interview with @Simon Brading here
Women pilots in the Royal Aviator Corps is actually explained in the books... you just have to read them all to piece together how!I like Misfit Squadron using steam-AH as its way to get intergender WW2 pilots - "well the history's different so women having certain jobs is more normalised in this 1940s"
Hey! Don't count out the airships!As I said last time this came up, the idea of spring-powered aircraft is very original and fascinating to me, a way to get a version of steampunk without it being all airships and balloons. Feels worthy of something Tony Jones would come up with.
But it's something that happens so much in real life, both ways - Van Damme and Jackie Chan to name a couple of not so well known examples... But yes, the dancer (usually female) who can kick their way through the highly-trained bad guys is a bit overused, especially in bad 80's movies."martial arts is how I got into dance" is the sort of phrase that you would not get away with in fiction.
But it's something that happens so much in real life, both ways - Van Damme and Jackie Chan to name a couple of not so well known examples... But yes, the dancer (usually female) who can kick their way through the highly-trained bad guys is a bit overused, especially in bad 80's movies.