DPP: Historical pilots

[lizziec]

Hello everyone :) So yesterday we looked at the neuroses, psychoses and maladies of Pilots and those around them. Today's DPP is Historical Pilots (hello, still marking history exams!). I'm pretty sure we've had this one recently, but I swear it was in my calendar before the post in question and as I'm rather in love with the idea, it stays ;)

Which historical period would you place our pilots in? How would they get on there? Would they do a similar sort of job to the one they do in the colonial fleet? How would the constraints of the time affect them?

For example, I could kind of see them in World War Two. Lee would, of course, be a fighter pilot and I imagine Kara working for the Air Transport Auxiliary (yay! a flying job for women in World War II), accidentally coming across a dogfight and saving Lee's skin with some awesome manoeuvre. Or Kara coming up with some way to disguise herself to join the air force proper :)

And if Lee existed in the Napoleonic Wars times I could see him being a Hornblower type - duty and loyalty and sometimes doing the right thing even if it's not exactly straight (like pushing the captain down into the hold). Which leads my brain to wonder if Lee was Hornblower, would Archie be friends with him and still die to protect him as he did in Hornblower (Retribution?) first by taking bullet and then by claiming that Hornblower's crime was his own as he was going to die anyway. Oh god my brain...</sidetrackking tangent>

Feel free to drabble or just throw out there/discuss your thoughts on our pilots in Earth's history :D

Comments

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, YES. Prohibition-era booze-running Kara is such a perfect idea..they'd be like Spencer Tracey and Katharine Hepburn with the bantering.

I'd also like to send them to New Orleans in the past, I've never been but it seems like the kind of city that might make a huge impression on Lee if he was an outsider and Kara lived there. I like your Chicago 1920s idea better, though - it seems more plausible for them.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

It sounds awesome right? :) I think Chicago IS the better idea because it was a much more conventional town than New Orleans, I feel like Kara would get more of a kick breaking the rules there, and Lee would fit in a lot better. Also there was a lot more violent crime I think around that time in Chicago than New Orleans, and that could lead to some interesting situations for pilots to be in.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Actually, just chuck the New Orleans thing - Chicago it is!

Besides, bantery pilots in the 1920s feel so like a possibility. And I can totally see pilots getting into some sticky situations and getting out of them together, esp. with Lee possibly being a war vet who might or might not have PTSD.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

NEW ORLEANS BE DAMNED!!

I like the PTSD idea, I was thinking maybe he'd have a secret drinking problem because of his daddy issues (you know he has daddy issues), but the PTSD is good also.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Yeah, New Orleans was a half-assed idea, haha. But I can totally see Lee as a stressed-out war vet (perhaps even an early WWI ace?) with daddy issues - MAJOR daddy issues and lots of repression.

I love AU pilots.