Hibernia on the Skids: Steam Powered Flight, myth and reality

Hibernia on the Skids: Steam Powered Flight, myth and reality

"...STEAM POWERED AEROCRAFT: MYTH AND REALITY

One of the guiding principles of steampunk technology is that, quite naturally, STEAM ENGINES will be the prevelant motive power source for most vehicles.

Another genre chestnut is the assumption of aerocraft years, even decades before their historic debut. Airships and blimps as well as fixed wing aeeroplanes do not appear until quite late into the 19th century or early 20th. Now we are venturing into the land of "if it didn't exist, it ought to have"-- a niche steampunk fiction occupies without fear of censure...."

Hibernia on the Skids: Steam Powered Flight, myth and reality