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Airships are a type of aircraft which are lighter-than-air. They are held afloat by gasbags containing hydrogen and helium gases and are usually powered by piston engines (that was, in Ancients' times: the ones also seen in the film are powered by jet engines).
All airships in the series can be found here and here.
Description[]
For much of the Traction Era, airships were the main forms of long-distance transport on Earth with heavier-than-air-flight (such as the long-forgotten aeroplane) only being developed by Traction Cities during the Green Storm War. They were also sacrificed as bombs, in the case of Tumblers.
Most of the airships are similar to zeppelins and blimps. Airships ranged from tiny hot-air balloons and fighter airships to freighters, gunships, and the massive Air Destroyers.
Many airships have unusual names, like the Sword Flourished In Understandable Pique or the Wrestling Cheese.
List of Airships[]
- Green Storm Air Destroyer; carries tumblers.
- Twin-envelope 'sky cat'
- The 13th Floor Elevator
- Spice Freighter from the Thousand Islands
- Murasaki Fox Spirit
- Cruiser of the Anti-Traction League
- The Jenny Haniver
- 'Goddess' class passenger liner
- Serapis Moonshadow
- Spudbury Sunbeam
- Experimental rocket-assisted Zhang Chen Hawkmoth Mk VI, firing its boosters on an attack run.
- Heavier-than-air fighter, as used by the freelance air-forces of the Traction War.
- Zhang-Chen Hawkmoth.
- New London; and several other new airships used in that time.
Trivia[]
- The naming of airships in Mortal Engines was inspired by the naming of ships from the series The Centauri Device.[1]
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