“One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and '30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them.”

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Sunwing

1999

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Silverwing

1997

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Airborn

2004

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Starclimber

2009

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The Nest

2015

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