Comic artist versus Real Aircraft

Old thread, random question...does anyone know what real-life aircraft inspired this one from the Porco Rosso comics and film?

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Don't know of a particular aircraft like that one, but most of the planes in Porco Rosso are Schneider Cup and WWI waterplanes.
 
cluttonfred said:
Old thread, random question...does anyone know what real-life aircraft inspired this one from the Porco Rosso comics and film?

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It is obviously a single seat, single engine and single hull version of a SIAI S-55 hydroplane:

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It is obviously a single seat, single engine and single hull version of a SIAI S-55 hydroplane:
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In other words a smaller version of the S.63? Perhaps, but I don’t think that’s it. In the watercolor drawings Miyazaki went to considerable effort show the wing folding setup. If it is inspired by a real plane and not completely fictional, I am thinking it might have been some sort of shipboard spotter aircraft.
 
Reminds me quite a bit of the "flying shoe". Obviously not in the particulars or size, but the overall arrangement.
 
Miyazaki's aircraft are original designs with the flavor of real aircraft; They have the right proportions and characteristics that would let them fly in a real sky. Bits and pieces of actual aircraft are brought together with an animator's imagination to create something that hasn't been seen before.

Nausicaä's Möwe has the wing shape of a seagull and is powered by a turbojet. The giant blue Tolmekian Transports also have the seagull wing and its fuselage shows influence of the Messerschmitt Gigant. The airships began with something Zeppelin like and have evolved into a new shape that fits the story being told.

Proof of the pudding is that Nausicaä's Möwe has been built and flown as a flying man carrying aircraft:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17elclJuXxQ
 
A few years ago, a certain US president suggested nuking hurricanes. This is Roger Leloup's version of that from La Fille du Vent (published in 1978). It involved rocket-boosted planes launched from an hovercraft dropping 2 bombs, one of them a nuke..
 

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Richard N said:
He also thought he could change the weather with a Sharpie : )
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And cure COVID with bleach injections... :D
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As Mark Twain put it:
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.
 
Hank Carruso drew a wide variety of caricatures of U.S. Navy airplanes.

During World War 2, "Aeroplane" (?) magazine did similar caricatures - accompanied by limericks - of various war planes.

Most recently, MENG has sold a series of egg-planes and egg-tanks to plastic scale modelers.
 
From the original cartoon series “Jonny Quest”, the Dragonfly. Screencap from opening credits. Second photo from a new cartoon from imbd. One heck of a big tail for a supersonic jet. Yeah, more style than practicality.
 

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In one of the recent episodes of the new Ghost in the Shell on Netflix it features what I presume is meant to be an optically camouflaged B-21, though what little you can see of it looks like a large X-47. It’s also used to paradrop special operations forces into Tokyo, so I think someone in production was getting a bit carried away with what B-21 can and cannot do. At least they’ve made the optical camouflage more imperfect in it now, which it makes it look less ‘magical’ and a bit more ‘realistic’.
 
Pictures if the SAL Colibri are posted on page 1 of this thread and elsewhere but album 17 (Le Matin du Monde, published in 1988) opened with an evolution of the design : 2 seats + winglets. Not sure the rear seat can really accomodate an adult.

In this album, we get:
- the SAL Colibri Two HB-WIP
- a Garuda Airbus Airbus A300
- Monya's time machine (she's the sole survivor of a 39th century apocalypse, first appeared in Album 11 "La Spirale du Temps")
- an ultralight that actually ends up as a Deltaplane hang glider.
- a few Pteranodons (yes, in 1350 AD Bali)
 

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The original Colibri (or Kolibri, in some language versions) was destroyed or damaged when she was shot down in 'Le Canon de Kra'. She fired rearward launched missiles to intercept a missile (Sidewinder?). There was still damage, so she jettisoned the engines, and a big parachute pancaked the rest of Colibri on the ground.

Some albums have these blue skinned aliens with a variety of space going craft.
 

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But the first Colibri wasn't a total loss. They recovered the main part as it's seen, dismantled, inside the Kawasaki C-1 when they leave Sakamoto's island at the end of the story.

There are many planes in this album:
- SAL Colibri, HB-WIN,
- a civilian Kawasaki C-1, JA-9583
- A private Cessna Citation I, ,HB-DEKA
- Sakamoto's personal A6M2-N (KOG-37)
- a Kampong Air Force S-61R/HH-3F Pelican
- an Air Lanka L-1011 Tristar
- a Kampong Air DC-9
- a DC-8
- a few Kampong Air Force F-16A/B block 10
- a dissident Kampong F-5A

I love the Vinean stories. Still have to buy the new one that was published this year.
 

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Wonderful thread. I had no idea Miyazaki had made so many animations with aircraft in. He is surely the king of the cartoon flying machine.

Some of the machines in The Wind Rises were accurate renditions of real aircraft, others drifted from reality in varying degrees. None wholly left it.

Nausicaä's Möwe is closer to historical reality than many realise. Here is the Dunne D.7, which flew in 1911 and became the first monoplane to be certified stable in flight (His D.5 biplane of the previous year was the first). In 1941 he returned to the design, to update it for the high-speed era. But he became too ill and it was left to his old friend Geoffrey de Havilland to bring it to life for the jet age, in the DH 108 "Swallow".

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Not seen Ken Steacy in this thread. Tempus Fugitive was a four-part adventure. Besides this lot there are some world War II type what-ifs, too. Link behaving weirdly, so attached too for luck.

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Didier Capdevilla's Capcomespace is such a treasure trove...

I knew about this (which is hilarious and amazing at the same time). But the attached pictures ? they are new to me.

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My mind is completely blown.

Tintin without Tintin in the real world: the whole thing straight out of a parallel dimension stuck somewhere between fiction and reality.

Apollo 12 has just entered the Tintin dimension.

By the way, Tintin's landing spot - Hipparchus crater - was among the sites considered for the H-class Apollos (12 - 13 - 14 - 15)

 

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Cirque Hipparque — Wikipédia

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C'est au nord du cratère fantôme Hipparchus X, au centre du cirque Hipparque2, que se pose la fusée lunaire de Tintin en juin 1953
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All right then, what has LRO to say about Hipparchus-X ? see attached.

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LROC QuickMap, a powerful map interface to browse Lunar data from NASA/LRO and other missions. Explore the Moon in both 2D and 3D. Developed by Applied Coherent Technology and customized for the LROC team at ASU
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Archibald said:
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Cirque Hipparque — Wikipédia

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C'est au nord du cratère fantôme Hipparchus X, au centre du cirque Hipparque2, que se pose la fusée lunaire de Tintin en juin 1953
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All right then, what has LRO to say about Hipparchus-X ? see attached.

LROC QuickMap

LROC QuickMap, a powerful map interface to browse Lunar data from NASA/LRO and other missions. Explore the Moon in both 2D and 3D. Developed by Applied Coherent Technology and customized for the LROC team at ASU
quickmap.lroc.asu.edu quickmap.lroc.asu.edu
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Hi
 

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