> > >Yes, but when the colonisation phase comes up, it's a shorter trip across the Atlantic than the Pacific :P
> > 
> > I HAS TEH AIREOPLANES! Though they probably aren't in good condition, having sat there for decades.
> 
> You also need highly specific fuel for them. You can't pump straight gasoline into a plane engine and throw the starter. Plane fuel is made to a very different grade of fuel than automobiles with different additives. And I'd imagine many of these additives are not available to a post-industrial decline country.

I wonder though (and I really don't know), does this rule change when you get to early-model planes? Could they make something like [this](http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/032/0/6/Plane_World_War_1_by_Pervandr.jpg)?