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I didn't really know where this belongs, but in the map editor I looked through the list of items and saw a small plane.
I didn't see a recipe or it in the entities page, so.

Is it just for the campaign and scenarios?
Is it not yet implemented?
Or did I just miss seeing something?

Because I would really like to fly a plane around.

Yep, my first free play I rushed to the flight tech. And then I looked for the airplane.
Huh, no airplane??

I guess that's for the scenario only, unfortunately

Those pesky Aliens shoot down anything that flies too high. That's why you need rocket defense before the colony ship can land. (or something like that!)

DerivePi wrote:Those pesky Aliens shoot down anything that flies too high. That's why you need rocket defense before the colony ship can land. (or something like that!)

That would also explain why the campaign ends after you make a plane. You take to the skies... and get shot down and die.

I wish I could setup two airports for quick automated travel between bases.

Check out this video, particularly the end of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsngaST ... gViVr_syvA

Arumba didn't complete the entire campaign, but at least there's a hint. With enough luck, we can find someone else who can finish the entire campaign.

I finished the campaign, you don't get to use the plane. Tried creating one in the map editor, it's just a useless placeholder item; it does nothing.

Hopefully it will be added, as building airfields at bases and flying between them certainly beats driving or dodging trains! (though i put my OTTD skills to work and build safe networks, rather annoying you have to build Ro-Ro stations as trains won't reverse out)

In one of my first playthroughs I ended up on a small island. While the resources were abundant - it was clear that I`ll need to get off of it at some point in order to win the game.

I noticed a tech called 'flying' with a nice plane icon on it. So I focused all my research to get it as fast as I can. By the time I started that research I`ve already ran out of coal and had to manually cut down forest to fuel my smelters...

Imagine my frustration when I got the tech only to discover that there are no planes in the game... This at least taught me a lesson to carefully read what I`m researching and to restart the game if I`m on island.