❖ ''ZF 16 Ariomma to unknown vessel. Please identify yourself. Over.'' ❖
Farah and Kazem are twins working aboard the Ariomma, a trading airship that sails the edges of a flat world. Out here is a frontier far from civilization: a place known as the...
Hello, friends! I'm back with the second and final bonus chapter for this book: a collection of historic photos that I used to figure out just what the inside of the Ariomma looked like in this book. Most of these were taken on the Hindenburg, but there are a smattering that I found in other locations and couldn't confirm the origin of.
This tour was originally posted in my channel of the Literary Lounge, so if these photos look familiar, you might have seen them there. Anyway, enjoy!
First off: living quarters. Crew bunks on a zeppelin look like this. As you can see, lots of metal and not a lot of space!
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The crew's quarters, like most things other than the gondola, are situated inside the belly of the zeppelin. This means clear panels in the airship's skin give them windows. The angle of those tells you where we are in the ship.
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(The gondola is the little bump under the nose of the airship)
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Zeppelins are distinguishable from blimps by their rigid structure. Their outside frame is made of huge rings of girders linked by horizontal ones, forming the shell of the craft. Where's the lifting gas, you ask? Well, the whole ship isn't filled with it, obviously; not if there are people inside. Instead, the inside of the "envelope" (that big balloon that makes up most of the ship) is divided into gas cells, each individually filled. This redundancy means one or two can get ripped open, without sinking the airship.
