That night, Kate seeks Matt out and shares her grandfather’s notebooks with him. She is on the airship to look for the creatures her grandfather described before his death. Kate is the granddaughter of the balloon pilot and a talented airship engineer. The next day, a wealthy passenger named Kate de Vries boards the ship. The man tells Matt about mysterious ghostly creatures that he saw in the sky, then he passes away. Matt helps to rescue the injured pilot from the balloon. One night while on watch, Matt spots a drifting hot air balloon that does not respond when the captain of the Aurora tries to raise it on the radio. Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the airship Aurora. Printz Award honor, and a Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon award. The book has won several awards, including a Governor General's Award for children's literature, a Michael L. It is set in an alternate universe where airships and hot air balloons have replaced airplanes as the primary mode of travel. During the events of Skybreaker the Aurora is apparently still flying and is on a cruise in the Indian Ocean.Airborn is a 2004 science fiction young adult novel by Kenneth Oppel. Sprizglas then confronts Matt in person on the tail fin of the Aurora but falls off and die.

Bruce dies on the Aurora when he is shot by one of the pirates. Sprizglas then used the main control room to override the steering systems. Matt drugged the pirates but the drug did not work on Sprizglas. They try steer the ship away using the rear control room and lifts the ship into the air before the wrecking crew arrives.

After Matt and Kate goes aboard and meets Bruce. He is seen mentioning to another pirate about stripping the Aurora and looting the parts. After capturing Matt and Kate,Sprizglas found the wrecked Aurora and captured the ship. Matt eventually found some hydrium (a fictional lifting gas) in a cave and supplied the hydrium to the Aurora via rubber hosing.

In the novel Airborn the Aurora is boarded and severely damaged and is forced to land on an unmarked island.

The Aurora is a 900 foot long luxury airship. Matt Cruse served on the Aurora for 2 years until the defeat of Vikram Sprizglas. The Aurora is a fictional aircraft in the novel Airborn.

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