| rdfs:comment | - Gil's flyer, or alternatively, [ falling machine] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]] as Agatha calls it, is that rarity in the Girl Genius world, a means of aerial transportation that's heavier than air and therefore not an airship. It makes its appearance [ here] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]], as a means for Gil to take his lady friend out for a spin and impress her with his Sparkiness. It is unfortunate for his ego (but essential for plot development) that it goes into a spin of the aerodynamic kind, and looks like it's going to punch a hole in the ground below, with messy effects on Gil, Agatha and Zoing. This, however, is just what Agatha needs to convince Gil that she too is a Spark to be taken note of, if he had any doubts in the matter. The flyer recovers at treetop level and climbs bac
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| abstract | - Gil's flyer, or alternatively, [ falling machine] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]] as Agatha calls it, is that rarity in the Girl Genius world, a means of aerial transportation that's heavier than air and therefore not an airship. It makes its appearance [ here] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]], as a means for Gil to take his lady friend out for a spin and impress her with his Sparkiness. It is unfortunate for his ego (but essential for plot development) that it goes into a spin of the aerodynamic kind, and looks like it's going to punch a hole in the ground below, with messy effects on Gil, Agatha and Zoing. This, however, is just what Agatha needs to convince Gil that she too is a Spark to be taken note of, if he had any doubts in the matter. The flyer recovers at treetop level and climbs back up to Castle Wulfenbach, giving Agatha her first real glimpse of exactly what kind of mess she's gotten herself into. It's somewhat banged up on re-entry to the Castle, but apparently not too badly, because indications are that Ardsley Wooster takes it (or at least what was not used to build the Rescue Machine) when Gil sends him out looking for Agatha while she's captive in Sturmhalten. At least the Geisterdamen sentries [ describe] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]] the airship that Wooster is piloting (although they don't know who's in it) as "small and very fast, like a giant bird." Agatha concludes from this description that Gil himself has come looking for her. She's wrong, but close enough. We don't know whether this is the start of a heavier-than-air trend or just idle experimentation by a talented, but possibly bored, Spark. (Though a fixed-wing flyer that looks similar to Gil's is seen early on in [ Agatha's room] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]], that craft lacks a propeller and appears to be a lighter-than-air design.) Certainly airships continue to fill the skies over Europa for a long time after this episode. Stay tuned.
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