The Crane Fly is the largest aircraft belonging to a faction known as Fortia. This faction has built up an empire that covers a sizable amount of the South-Eastern portion of the former USA.
They consist of a highly stratified, authoritarian society that ideologically is strongly infused in social darwinism. Notably they practice slavery, with the enslaved being mostly war captured or snatched in raids into areas without large-scale organization.
These slaves, as this configuration shows, often are used not just in the usual tasks, but even as replacement for higher technology: Here, the Crane Fly acts as a "Beehive" mothership that carries smaller kamikaze airplanes known as "Bees". These are usually flown as substitute to PGMs against tactical and strategic targets alike. To ensure loyalty, the pilots are picked from specific sources:
1: participants from failed rebellions, for whom their reward is that their bloodlines aren't wiped out under the view that rebelliousness is a genetic trait.
2: Very low-tier slaves who are held in very lowly into the strata within this social class, and are provided with improved conditions for their relatives as a reward for loyalty.
3: Disabled slaves who are otherwise incapable of useful work. Similarly to the second case, their relatives are also rewarded for this, similarly being one surefire way to improve their station.

The Crane Fly itself also sees use as a transport aircraft, carrying pods under the fuselage, or bombs. In this last task, it's mostly used to attack large settlements beyond the border to break them up, both to prevent large-scale organization from occurring and to soften them up for ground raids.
While originally, this aircraft entered service after all nearby potential air threats had been defeated, they're now provided with rudimentary defensive guns after reports started coming of bombers that returned with battle damage from rounds inconsistent with anti-aircraft guns.

Controls:
1-5: Detach kamikazes.
6, 7: Activate defensive guns (6 for rear, 7 for front).
8: Toggle gyroscope and engine throttle.