Comments on: An Old Year Ends and a New Year Dawns http://paulgazis.com/blog/2009/12/15/an-old-year-ends-and-a-new-year-dawns/ News about the Flying Cloud and Interesting Things Sat, 04 Aug 2012 15:41:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: harley graves http://paulgazis.com/blog/2009/12/15/an-old-year-ends-and-a-new-year-dawns/comment-page-1/#comment-82 harley graves Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:59:50 +0000 http://paulgazis.com/blog/?p=249#comment-82 absolutely true island maidens do tend to liven up things a bit.... ill be following and have a great holiday. absolutely true island maidens do tend to liven up things a bit….

ill be following and have a great holiday.

]]> By: Paul http://paulgazis.com/blog/2009/12/15/an-old-year-ends-and-a-new-year-dawns/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Paul Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:25:40 +0000 http://paulgazis.com/blog/?p=249#comment-70 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... 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…

]]> By: harley graves http://paulgazis.com/blog/2009/12/15/an-old-year-ends-and-a-new-year-dawns/comment-page-1/#comment-69 harley graves Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:29:01 +0000 http://paulgazis.com/blog/?p=249#comment-69 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! 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!

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