It was a beautiful scene with the lake and the rolling landscape of the park, with the trees in the foreground framing the towering buildings of the city in the distance. Our ship, the Kubla Khan as she was officially known, or the Golden Goose as she’d been informally christened by the worlds press, was moored with its less damaged side facing the boathouse, and for a moment as I stared out of the large windows upon the ship sitting so placidly above the water in which its reflection shimmered, I was transported back to my first view of her hanging over the waters of Los Angeles bay. Hughes by this point was renowned the world over not only for his delivery of the ‘The First Fifty.’ But also in the ensuing three years for having become one of the most capable and admired airship captains in the world. He’d asked for and expected no quarter or additional privilege because of his position and wealth, and had had to prove himself time and again in order to get away from his former billionaire playboy reputation.
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