She is quite glad to have something specific to focus on, actually. Sitting back, and relaxing her iron grip on the chair's arms, Helena listens to him, chiming in every so often with a quite intelligent question or three. Many of the mechanics behind the plane are things that she understands, and while the theories behind flight were around in her original time, her contemporaries were rather stuck on airships and dirigibles.

By the time Howard is only halfway done explaining things, she has calmed herself down and is almost bouncing in her seat with excitement.