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Ace of Aces: Flying Machines

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1983 · 2-2 players · 20min · weight 1.72 · 311 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
7103
Name
Ace of Aces: Flying Machines
Year
1983
Rank
7121
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
20
Min playtime
20
Max playtime
20
Avg weight
1.7222
Num weights
36
Bayes avg
5.66302
Average
6.98295
Users rated
311
Num owned
588
Wanting
33
Wishing
71
Num comments
112
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
SimulationSimultaneous Action Selection
Categories (3)
Aviation / FlightWargameWorld War I
Description (585 chars)

The Flying Machines book set pits a Fokker EIII Eindecker against an Airco DH2 "pusher" plane (meaning that the propeller was at the back of the aircraft.) Because of the pusher configuration, the DH2 has a flexible forward firing gun - a novel addition to the Ace of Aces system. The game also provides statistics for other early-war German aircraft and Allied pusher aircraft which may be played using this set. Flying Machines includes a different variety of maneuvers than was used in the Powerhouse and Handy Rotary books. This makes for interesting match-ups between the sets.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.