Oswin Bernerd McGuinness's Blog – September 2013 Archive (3)

Archimedes Specifications

Size

  • 70ft long, about 30ft wide, and at the Envelope
  • 50ft long, about 17ft wide at the Gondola

 

Power Plant

  • Experiment High pressure Steam/Electric Boiler
  • Prototype Large Scale Aetheric Extraction Reactor

 

Propulsion

  • 4 Independently controllable propulsion pods
  • Primary- rotary steam engines with 4 blade props
    • Speed- at 75%…
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Added by Oswin Bernerd McGuinness on September 27, 2013 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Back in the Habit

***Please read Back to the Drawing Boards first***

 

“Will you just stop already??” Tim yelled, running through the streets of White Chapel as he fired the MK2 about a foot over the man’s head he was chasing.

“Christ!!!” The man said in a thick accent, flailing about as he ran through the streets, “You’re going to kill me with that bloody voodoo rubbish you’re shooting at me, why the hell would I stop, you damn yank”

Peter O’Callahan…

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Added by Oswin Bernerd McGuinness on September 13, 2013 at 11:19pm — 1 Comment

Back to the drawing boards

The sun began to peak its head above the horizon. The light winding its way in to every nook and cranny it could find, including the yet completed roof of the lab just on the outskirts of London. Inside sat a sleeping scientist, leaning back on two legs of a chair that had been waging a constant battle with gravity since just after he’d fallen asleep. With sketches on the table, a tool in his hand, and an access panel open on the propulsion pod of the majestic air ship close behind…

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Added by Oswin Bernerd McGuinness on September 9, 2013 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

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