"Works for me." The prince looked around the table as the Admirals nodded. "That's out of the way. I'll let you and Cal work out the details later. What I want to hear now, is how we're going to build this thing."
"I've been giving it considerable thought." Cal wished she'd known what the meeting was about. Then she could have brought her sketchbook with her drawings and notes. "I have some preliminary drawings, but before we start putting things together I need to learn some important things. First, is what volume we need to displace to float an airship. Second, we need to look at different ways of creating the volume. Hot air will lift a weight from the ground, and hot air balloons have been around for a while. The problem is how we heat the necessary amount of air and keep it hot. Ther
