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Lighter-than-air transport being more prominent in AH has been a trope for so long, a lot of us do it in a self-ironic way. Personally, i've been handed an opportunity to play around with rotorcraft in WIAF and I intend to use it at some point: two of OTL's main Soviet helicopter designers, Nikolai Kamov and Mikhail Mil, were both from Irkutsk, which means they get to become Yakutian citizens by default.Yet while the presence of airships has become a cliche in alternate history circles, VTOLs have not been. Alternate history is full of Victorian zeppelins, not Vietnamese tilt-wings and jet-copters.
Oh, yeah, that's in WIAF too. @Bruno's The Road to Yakutia and @Talwar's Rock of Ages, both included in Volume 1, feature early types of a Yakutian vehicle developed to deal with the difficult Siberian terrain, which are recognizable as hovercraft, except they are called ground gliders.It's a bit of a depressing thought that I could see hovercraft becoming an allo-transport-punk staple used by younger writers, as they seem to be disappearing from their former status of being THE FUTURE too.