Echoes in the Sky @ exoticaviation.bsky.socialさんのイラストまとめ

"The film then [asks], has humanity's desire to fly..been fulfilled?
No..humanity's longing for the sky will never disappear.
At the end, a boy who who resembles Pazu from Laputa: Castle in the Sky takes off into the sky on the red and white ornithopter called "Alcione""

8/8

"It was animated traditionally & then manipulated with 3D to create realistic and complex movements while preserving the 2D hand-crafted texture. This technology..was epoch-making, & was utilized in the movement of the castle and the war scenes in Howl's Moving Castle (2004)"
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old aeronautical delights from a postcard set from the #StudioGhibli "Imaginary Flying Machines" animated short, 2002 (Kūsō no Sora Tobu Kikaitachi , 空想の空飛ぶ機械達)
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@wolftic @BarnaclePress @AeroDork I’m reminded of this old Perry Bible Fellowship strip
(which was never published due to it being deemed too similar to a Louis CK routine that was popular at the time (which gives you an idea of how old it was..))

a dramatic depiction of a fancy Dornier Do X by Max Gundlach, from the cover of POPULAR MECHANICS, Oct 1929
(https://t.co/MQ2Soor8kB)

the SNCAC NC. 130 high altitude experimental aircraft, 1939 - a pressurised cockpit at the front, and an unpressurized one towards the rear for take-off and landing

(from the cover of @FanaAviationMag #389, April 2002, art by Christophe Gibelin, https://t.co/CXOWAbPPbk)

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"This painting by Barry Walding depicts Avro Anson I L9164, piloted by Sgt Bruce Hancock, ramming Heinkel He 111 [WNr] 1408 over [RAF] Windrush on the night of August 18, 1940"

Hancock was a trainee bomber pilot, possibly on his last solo flight. intentional or not, all perished

@ToughSf the "Gaia Challenger" hydrofoil submarine carrier - with a unified US/Russian/German/French force - to deter future global conflicts
from ROADS INTO THE FUTURE, 1995, Robbert & Rudolf Das
(https://t.co/pgU0X6lg5v)

the "Sea-Bear"
"the greatest wonder of the present age"
"this fish has been seen by the most intelligent and learned men of the day"
BEHOLD!
er...
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"Commandos Spring from the Wings of Jump Jets"
POPULAR MECHANICS, Sept 1994
an article about the McDonnell Douglas Ground Rescue, Infiltrate, Exfiltrate and Re-supply (GRIER) pod
https://t.co/U79Nfj6KoE

(a similar British project was the AVPRO EXINT, https://t.co/sR3cKuCpDL)