Improbably Large Aircraft or The Trouble with Cavorite

Cavorite is an amazing mineral, and provides us many freedoms when designing homes and airships. Not only does it allow lighter-then-air flight without the difficulties of attaining Helium, the hazards of Hydrogen, and the weight issues associated with the traditional Steam engine.

However, Cavorite comes with its own design problems.

If you look around our fair land, you will notice two obvious issues:

1 Cavorite is not readily damped. The lifting effect of cavorite is itself a damping effect, as it is "opaque" to gravity.

2 Cavorite purity is variable. Some veins, such as those in Moors and Stormhold have produced specimen so pure as to have rocketed skyward before being assayed, whereas Morgaine's cavorite is mostly in-matrix, and many of the largest boulders from the mountain can be lifted by a grown man.

The most common approach at this point is to build your structure or vehicle, find an appropriate quantity of Cavorite to bring the structure to a neutral or slightly positive bouyancy, and use rotors for maneuvering.

While this approach is the most elegant of current arrangements, it requires a fair amount of guesswork.

However, My thinking is, there must be a way around one or the other of these limitations.

We shall see.