Test flight held for small jet modeled after Miyazaki anime

I thought it was going to be named after &quot;Porco Rosso&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.animenewsnetwork.com&#x2F;encyclopedia&#x2F;anime.php?id=855" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.animenewsnetwork.com&#x2F;encyclopedia&#x2F;anime.php?id=85...</a>), to be honest. Talking about &quot;Porco Rosso&quot;, I got to briefly visit Trieste for the first time ever this summer, Miyazaki and his fellow animators really did a very good job of portraying everything about the city, from the beautiful light to the Austro-Hungarian buildings from downtown. I had only seen the movie once, about 10 years ago, but I had a strong deja-vu feeling as I was visiting the Trieste waterfront, from where the first ever commercial Italian airplane took off in the early &#x27;20s.

And it does look like the anime version: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6zhLBe319KE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6zhLBe319KE</a><p>About 35 seconds in.

Looks like this has been an ongoing project for a while.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.rocketnews24.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;06&#x2F;real-life-nausiccas-mowe-glider-makes-first-powered-flight&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.rocketnews24.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;06&#x2F;real-life-nausiccas-mo...</a>

That design, while interesting and reminiscent of all the flying wing experiments and developments over the years, scares the ever loving hell out of me. I say this as a person working on a personal wing device also without a large vertical stabilizer control surface. Brave soul, and I fully applaud giving it a try!

I love when writers, novelists, artists dream up something then a group of crazy engineers come along and build it.

Video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;yHifJXf3oIo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;yHifJXf3oIo</a>

The bike helmet is the icing on the cake for me.

Can I be the first to note that being strapped to a large jet engine like that has got to be terrifying?

Would have liked to see it landing. And the caption said the guy is 50. Wow! He looks like 30.

Should have used a parachute.<p>You can by emergency parachutes intended for paragliding, at 300 USD it is worth it.

Pretty amazing. I&#x27;m worried about the positive feedback in the controls though... shift weight back to pitch up, which is going to cause more weight to shift back. Definitely a stall hazard, and a tough one to get out of.

<i>&quot;if i move up the front, the nose goes down because the weight is on the nose. if i slide down the nose goes up because the weight is on the tail. to make a turn, if i tilt my body this way the force is on the side&quot;</i><p>yaikes, this thing seems to be all manual based on weight disposition! Makes it quite a bit more challenging in my opinion.

Can you stabilize this sort of craft with gyros or something? Or is it pretty much a flying death trap?

Aw. You have to lie down on your stomach to pilot it?

Video link?

Japan gotta be the only place to find somebody crazy enough to pilot that thing.