It’s been a long and interesting journey, but Season One of The Flying Cloud has finally drawn to a close. I hope you’ve all enjoyed the story so far, and I’d like to thank you for your comments and support, and even more for your suggestions. In particular, I’d like to thank Kona and Andy for their valiant and continuing efforts of copy-editing, Kirk and Publius for catching any number of technical and historical details I’d missed, and Nick for his valuable suggestions about the graphics!
Next week is… well… surely I am allowed some surprises 
And then we can look forward to… Season Two…
thanks for the great story and i am certainly looking forward to more
i very much appreciate that somebody else has done some proper research on airship handleing of the period.
cheers and keep it up lad!
Hi Harley, I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the story, and I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the bits about ship-handling! This was one of the motivations for the story. After reading too many tales where airships were treated like all-powerful anti-gravity devices, whose crews never had to worry about ballast, hydrogen volume, disposable load, fuel consumption, pressure height, structural limits, and the like, I felt it was time for someone to go through accounts from the Age of the Great Airships and make some attempt to get these things right. The challenge is to make them interesting as well — I doubt even the most ardent enthusiast would be willing to wade through a 10,000 word essay about flight test procedures or the Lavoisier-Meusnier process for hydrogen generation.
This, of course, is where the sultry island maidens come in…
absolutely true island maidens do tend to liven up things a bit….
ill be following and have a great holiday.