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Even just an “early aviation” flight sim would be great. I recently went down a rabbit hole researching how US air mail worked in the 20s and 30s, before cockpit radios were really a thing. They constructed thousands of giant lighted beacon towers and concrete arrows on the ground to help pilots navigate.
something in between Kerbal space program and return to castle Wolfenstein.
a dude pedaling some kind of whirly gig bicycle aircraft chasing proto fascists floating uncontrollably in a balloon of their own design.
There were plans for a whole series of Kerbal games for boats and trains and planes.
All gone, like tears in rain.
This is obviously WW2 but if you want something of similar vintage and fairly realistic there is https://il2sturmovik.com/
Not quite early, but man am I feeling nostalgic now for "Jane's WW2 Fighters" on PC back in the late 90's. That game was awesome.