Gockel Metamorphosis IV

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Now he needed to maneuver the airship to the target building, align it just-so with a particular [533] portion of the roof, and hover with as little lateral and stern-to-bow drift as possible.The four fins at the back of the blimp each featured a rudder. equal to a series of perfectly executed ballet steps, with a delicate touch equal to that required to construct a house of cards, Jack Trotter brought the blimp lower and positioned it as required.According to the wristwatch favored by discerning anarchists—a reliable Rolex—transit time had been three minutes, twenty seconds.8:33. Service to all Manheim phones, hard-wired and cellular, had been discontinued three minutes agoThese were operated by electrical switches that were signaled through low-voltage cable, by controls on the yoke.Trotter could lose altitude by bleeding helium from the vessel. If he needed to gain altitude, he would do so by feeding more helium into the gas bag overhead or, more quickly, by dumping water from the ballast tanks along both sides of the gondola.Gracefully, almost majestically, the airship adjusted course for the groundskeeper’s building and arrived there as soundlessly as the stars turn through the sky from dusk to dawn. With a grace