Movie Trivia: In the film, they call Porco's plane a Savoia S.21 but the S.21 is a bi-plane. Some sources say Miyazaki modeled Porco's plane after the Macchi M33 which is the closest real-world airplane in design. Others say Miyazaki drew Porco's plane from his imagination using his memory of French racing planes for inspiration. Miyazaki's father was an aeronautical engineer and director of Miyazaki Airplane which made airplane parts.
"The wind rises" is the story of the engineer who built the Zero. Is a very beautiful Anime and i.m.h.o. has absolutely no intention of exalting Japanese imperialism. if you can see the film you will realize that the whole story is centered on the life of the designer and the technique of building that plane. B.T.W. if I remember correctly the era in which the Zeke was drawn, it precedes the tragedy of Pearl Harbor. Take this movie like one other documentary on third reich and nazifascism: horrible but historical. Miyazaki has always been a pacifist, aviation enthusiast and I think he wanted to pay tribute to a great mind of that time, even if unfortunately from the wrong side. If I were the American Miyazaki, with the same logic of thought I could make a film about the designer of P51 or P38, or B29 without talking about war if not in the background, equally on the SM79 if I were Italian Miyazaki, or on the ME109 if I was the German Miyazaki just to give some examples I understand that for the American people betrayed by Pearl Harbor it is difficult to face this film lightly but I'm sure that once you've seen with the right frame of mind you can understand the true intentions of the Japanese director. P.S. I'm Italian and I've had too a few moments of doubt, but after I've seen the film I can say it's very balanced. Hi
BigFatLoserDude can you tell me more about this EPO model? I have see the static polystirene version by a japanese produce but not this EPO fliyng model
Absolutely love it! You can reduce the nose down tendency by adding a few degrees of up thrust at the firewall. A lot of the old seaplanes had setups like this, so it won't look terribly odd. :)
I wish I had Josh's demeanor. I like how he just enjoyed the creation instead of getting angry about the misguided initiative. What a great place FT must be to work. Nice plane guys!
Watching that maiden flight at the end, just the pure joy and excitement between Josh and Jeremy, its super inspiring. Thank you guys so much for sharing this moment!
Hey Flitetest crew! Im a german student and am following your content quite a few years ago... Today i was studying all day long for my theoretic exam into sailplane license... Just nice to get here, watch a video and calm down ... Keep going guys
Loving all the quick build content lately. It’s fun to watch the FT team have fun on builds and help each other out. Great inspiration. Getting the wider team more involved is good too.
I have been praying for this aeroplane to come out for a long, long time - I fell in love with Porco Rosso the instant and I saw it, and it is at the same level at The Wind Rises. It presses all the right buttons - A seaplane,a fighter, Italian inter-war, Japanese Anime = pure heaven. I await the plans with baited breath !
Heck yeah man! Miyazaki films are awesome and he does a great job portraying his love of flight through them; 'The Wind Rises' was a fantastic movie. GREAT BUILD!
Awesome design. As a huge Miyazaki fan this one might actually get me to build a plane. Can’t wait to see how it comes out. FWIW it’d be neat to see a collection of planes from his other movies, like Nausicaa valley of the wind
Brothers it's time to go back to this project and take it more seriously come onnn we need a giant scale. maybe two 30min videos I guarantee many people will appreciate it.
+Josh Bixler absolutely agree, and it does need the tweaks to look closer to the Anime plane, which isn't going to be fun to work out into being a simple build. top front of fuselage rounding down, rolling the foam first, two V notches, then forcing it together, top front of fuselage being half hexagon shape (close enough!). the bottom shallow V pontoon shape is the simpler part. the engine pod really almost begs cutting a toilet paper tube in half, to bridge them with 1" or 1-1/4" flat sides... or 1-1/8" in front and 7/8" at rear for some side profile taper (oh hey). definitely wing higher and shorter engine pod masts but daaangg that rough prototype flew really well!! can't wait to see the final version closer resembling the movie plane.... eww gross? some small paper tampon tubes and small drinking straws (or coffee stir sticks) to mock up the machine guns, after paint who's going to know or care? a prop cone, easy available. know it seems a little weird that I'd see "parts" from junk out of the bathroom, but they're easy available! a paper towel tube could be sliced in half for a round top of a fuselage, just leave enough paper from the foam board to wrap up over it. cut one into quarters and bridge top with a long trapezoid \ / for a round front and a widening top/flat (like from 0 to 1/2" wide and 6-8" length). more strength and not much more weight than poster board could be very handy for the front section of a fuselage to be easy+light+strong. if applied to this plane, leaves just the very tip needing to be a bit of blue foam cut+sanded to shape, or could that be done sawing on a ping-pong ball? 1/4 of a craft store foam ball? I hope this helps open minds to getting more creative, for even better looking designs, that still remain reasonably simple to just do! also hope ya read it all... dang I get long winded, lmao!
Wow!!! Please make more of these anime/movie inspired aircrafts. You guys are geniuses and I'm sure can pull of some really ridiculous stuff. This was clean and cool.
YEARS we have waited for a Porco Rosso build. Today is a day of glory. I'm so psyched that this is a project that's going to be released. But Jeremy, I gotta tell ya - if a joke doesn't make Stefan laugh, it's time to retire it. :P
OOOH, I loved this movie as a younger kid, and really any flying movie, but I probably watched this movie at least 10 times back then. If it is released, I would definitely buy one. Would love to paint one up just like in the movie and be able to fly it around.
Nice work Jeremy and Josh! Excellent!!! I love Porco Rosso plane! Could they make the size of the "Simple Storch" or a little more? It´s a nice sice!!!
YES I've been looking for a model of this plane for a while, beautiful aircraft and a beautiful job from you guys. It's amazing what some foam board and hot glue can do!
I’d love to see some of the process of evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the design. I would guess it’s mostly a conversation but to see the process of balancing tweaks to flight characteristics and performance vs build experience would be cool if possible. All that stuff that ends up being the magic of a FT design is really fascinating. Oh and an update oh FTland !
Wow! I would build that! Ha! That's a great looking plane Jeremy should do more videos. That was great! His sound effects really helped make that plane go together better. :)
Challenge for FliteTest!! Make an airplane from foam board that has around a 60 in wingspan and is as light as possible, allowing it to fly in very tight spaces. Possibly make it be able to drop another airplane. Then do a contest for spot landing
Great model! Next, make it a real seaplane. I have always wanted to do Nausicaa's Mehve. Maybe you guys can give it a shot as well, with a foam or lightweight mehve rider.
The plane looks great like really great and have huuuuuge potential, needs a lot of work on the motor mount of course some sort of a wing load mount that grows out of the wing center structure, do you get what i mean josh ? , the rest is standered , very nice to see jeremy do a build keep going my friend 😁
Josh: We gotta find whether we wanna go cartoon or whether we wanna go back to scale Jeremy: Josh, you're going to upset the weebs; don't say "cartoon". As someone who watches anime, that cracked me up. Nice work as usual, FliteTest!
Finish it! I need a single engine sea plane I can scale up and modify for 10-15 foot wingspan, and mostly coroplast construction. An engineer I am not, but most of your plans scale up beautifully and even I can manage the structural modifications to make them airworthy.
I was thinking about Porco Rosso plane for years. Such a charismatic plane. Maybe it should be two versons? Like a simple foamboard thing and a version with double curve nose 3d printed or cut of block of foam? And please, make it floatable.
You guys just blew my otaku mind!! I dreamed of that plane model in rc and you just did it!! Always been big fan of Miyazaki flying pig!! Thanks forever!! Is it in the store yet? Will you make the skin to sell with it or we paintit ourself?
Movie Trivia: In the film, they call Porco's plane a Savoia S.21 but the S.21 is a bi-plane. Some sources say Miyazaki modeled Porco's plane after the Macchi M33 which is the closest real-world airplane in design. Others say Miyazaki drew Porco's plane from his imagination using his memory of French racing planes for inspiration. Miyazaki's father was an aeronautical engineer and director of Miyazaki Airplane which made airplane parts.
Can you all make a video on how to design a plane? it would be great the commmunity will have more and better planes
Explains, "The Wind Rises".
"The wind rises" is the story of the engineer who built the Zero. Is a very beautiful Anime and i.m.h.o. has absolutely no intention of exalting Japanese imperialism.
if you can see the film you will realize that the whole story is centered on the life of the designer and the technique of building that plane.
B.T.W. if I remember correctly the era in which the Zeke was drawn, it precedes the tragedy of Pearl Harbor.
Take this movie like one other documentary on third reich and nazifascism: horrible but historical.
Miyazaki has always been a pacifist, aviation enthusiast and I think he wanted to pay tribute to a great mind of that time, even if unfortunately from the wrong side.
If I were the American Miyazaki, with the same logic of thought I could make a film about the designer of P51 or P38, or B29 without talking about war if not in the background, equally on the SM79 if I were Italian Miyazaki, or on the ME109 if I was the German Miyazaki just to give some examples
I understand that for the American people betrayed by Pearl Harbor it is difficult to face this film lightly but I'm sure that once you've seen with the right frame of mind you can understand the true intentions of the Japanese director.
P.S. I'm Italian and I've had too a few moments of doubt, but after I've seen the film I can say it's very balanced.
Hi
BigFatLoserDude can you tell me more about this EPO model? I have see the static polystirene version by a japanese produce but not this EPO fliyng model
BigFatLoserDude thank for the answer
ANIME? FLITETEST? *clicks instantly*
FINALLY THIS TOOK SO LONG I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF FLITE TEST. PORCO ROSSO IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALM TIME
Absolutely love it! You can reduce the nose down tendency by adding a few degrees of up thrust at the firewall. A lot of the old seaplanes had setups like this, so it won't look terribly odd. :)
I wish I had Josh's demeanor. I like how he just enjoyed the creation instead of getting angry about the misguided initiative. What a great place FT must be to work. Nice plane guys!
You go, JEREMY!!! Great to see you at the build bench.
JGplanes
He has a nice presentation style eh?!
Thanks guys! That means a lot. Always nice to get up from the editing workstation and have some fun at the foamboard workstation! - Jeremy
@Jeremy - I owe you some Chick-fil-A! See you at FFO’18. 😉
Watching that maiden flight at the end, just the pure joy and excitement between Josh and Jeremy, its super inspiring. Thank you guys so much for sharing this moment!
This is surreal. I had just finished rewatching the movie and was wondering if there are rc models of porco's plane. Neat!
Absolutely love Josh's laugh, too many people grow up and forget what its like to be a kid... he hasn't and bless this dude
Hey Flitetest crew!
Im a german student and am following your content quite a few years ago... Today i was studying all day long for my theoretic exam into sailplane license... Just nice to get here, watch a video and calm down
... Keep going guys
Nice work Jeremy!!! So this is what the crew was up to while Josh, Alex, and Austin were at Horizon RC Fest!😂
Loving all the quick build content lately. It’s fun to watch the FT team have fun on builds and help each other out. Great inspiration. Getting the wider team more involved is good too.
Yes Jeremy! Nicely done
I have been praying for this aeroplane to come out for a long, long time - I fell in love with Porco Rosso the instant and I saw it, and it is at the same level at The Wind Rises. It presses all the right buttons - A seaplane,a fighter, Italian inter-war, Japanese Anime = pure heaven. I await the plans with baited breath !
Heck yeah man! Miyazaki films are awesome and he does a great job portraying his love of flight through them; 'The Wind Rises' was a fantastic movie. GREAT BUILD!
Nice work Jeremy .I would definitely like to see you building and flying in more vids.
Jeremy, fantastic job hosting the video. That plane looks awesome, cant wait for the plans to come out. Also looks like a great craft for FPV.
Also, please do put ailerons on it.
Loved this video. Jeremy is so genuine and his commentary regarding the film was excellent!
Awesome design. As a huge Miyazaki fan this one might actually get me to build a plane. Can’t wait to see how it comes out. FWIW it’d be neat to see a collection of planes from his other movies, like Nausicaa valley of the wind
Nice Vid Jeremy! More stuff licke that. I like your way of "storry telling". Thanks
I'll build this just because I enjoyed the Anime. Kudos Jeremy!
I KNEW THIS WAS COMING! I COULDVE SWORN I SAW THUS IN THE WORKS IN OTHER VIDEOS!
I never would of thought I’d see anime and Flite Test in the same sentence. Only now is anime NOT a mistake. Also Studio Ghibli is the best for ever.
Jermey should be in more videos ( great video keep up the good work)
Brothers it's time to go back to this project and take it more seriously come onnn we need a giant scale. maybe two 30min videos I guarantee many people will appreciate it.
OMG!! Nice work! You guys need to release this!!! Like NOW!!!!
It’s coming Friend. :)
Josh Bixler i want you to make a plane that can move backward without turning the wing
+Josh Bixler absolutely agree, and it does need the tweaks to look closer to the Anime plane, which isn't going to be fun to work out into being a simple build. top front of fuselage rounding down, rolling the foam first, two V notches, then forcing it together, top front of fuselage being half hexagon shape (close enough!). the bottom shallow V pontoon shape is the simpler part. the engine pod really almost begs cutting a toilet paper tube in half, to bridge them with 1" or 1-1/4" flat sides... or 1-1/8" in front and 7/8" at rear for some side profile taper (oh hey). definitely wing higher and shorter engine pod masts but daaangg that rough prototype flew really well!! can't wait to see the final version closer resembling the movie plane.... eww gross? some small paper tampon tubes and small drinking straws (or coffee stir sticks) to mock up the machine guns, after paint who's going to know or care? a prop cone, easy available.
know it seems a little weird that I'd see "parts" from junk out of the bathroom, but they're easy available! a paper towel tube could be sliced in half for a round top of a fuselage, just leave enough paper from the foam board to wrap up over it. cut one into quarters and bridge top with a long trapezoid \ / for a round front and a widening top/flat (like from 0 to 1/2" wide and 6-8" length). more strength and not much more weight than poster board could be very handy for the front section of a fuselage to be easy+light+strong. if applied to this plane, leaves just the very tip needing to be a bit of blue foam cut+sanded to shape, or could that be done sawing on a ping-pong ball? 1/4 of a craft store foam ball?
I hope this helps open minds to getting more creative, for even better looking designs, that still remain reasonably simple to just do!
also hope ya read it all... dang I get long winded, lmao!
It was refreshing watching your build style. This is true to life building and I love it!
I love this movie! i keep coming back to it! Sames as for The Wind Rises!!! Thank you for sharing!
Love the attitude and spirit of this, very inspirational! Sweet looking plane too
Loving Jeremy's energy and creativity.
Love this movie and this plane so much. Fantastic to see it come to life!
I cannot wait for plans on this! I'm fan boying so much right now
Wow that flew awesomely well. I always have issues with taking off when i use that high mounted engine design.
I wish you were in more build videos, you're hilarious! Good work dude.
WE NEED A MOCK DOGFIGHT as soon as the Curtiss is finished! Also, put Marco Pig in the cockpit!
Nice!! Jeremy really gives some fresh breeze to the channel!
Wow!!! Please make more of these anime/movie inspired aircrafts. You guys are geniuses and I'm sure can pull of some really ridiculous stuff. This was clean and cool.
YEARS we have waited for a Porco Rosso build. Today is a day of glory. I'm so psyched that this is a project that's going to be released.
But Jeremy, I gotta tell ya - if a joke doesn't make Stefan laugh, it's time to retire it. :P
Way to go Jeremy! Loved the plane, but I liked the style of the video too... nice work!
Yet another awesome video from the flite test family well done lads, as always! 👏👏
Great video Jeremy☺ this is a superb prototype
More Jeremy videos please!!!! This one is really good 👌🏼🎉
"All it sometimes need is a little push!" Friends do that, to point you in the right direction. Awesome job! :-)
This is what Flite Test is all about right here. 👍🏼😃👍🏼
OOOH, I loved this movie as a younger kid, and really any flying movie, but I probably watched this movie at least 10 times back then. If it is released, I would definitely buy one. Would love to paint one up just like in the movie and be able to fly it around.
More of Jeremy please. Loved your on screen presence.
its about time! ive been waiting on this for years XD
Nice work Jeremy and Josh! Excellent!!! I love Porco Rosso plane! Could they make the size of the "Simple Storch" or a little more? It´s a nice sice!!!
*fangirling* oh my gosh!!! HM's movies are the best
YES! I finally got my hands on some genuine FiliteTest foam board in Sweden! This is the build! :-)
Sweet plane! Can't wait for the kit!
I like the look of this plane! Keen to make this one 🙌🏼
You guys should make the Spruce Goose if you haven't yet. Love the content!
YES I've been looking for a model of this plane for a while, beautiful aircraft and a beautiful job from you guys. It's amazing what some foam board and hot glue can do!
Great job guys! Idea for more of the same, last exile van ship?
oh man, that was AWESOME!!!
I’d love to see some of the process of evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the design. I would guess it’s mostly a conversation but to see the process of balancing tweaks to flight characteristics and performance vs build experience would be cool if possible. All that stuff that ends up being the magic of a FT design is really fascinating. Oh and an update oh FTland !
Great little video. More of these please. At 3:27 i was totally expecting something dramatic to happen. Just the way the edit was.
Jeremy has a really interesting way of telling build stories. He should do a build video.
“I needa finish that” sounded just like Josh 😂
Wow! I would build that! Ha! That's a great looking plane
Jeremy should do more videos. That was great! His sound effects really helped make that plane go together better. :)
That was awesome. I love float planes. PBY catalina is my favorite float plane. Great job guys.
1:11 Spot on impersonation, sir! 😆
Challenge for FliteTest!! Make an airplane from foam board that has around a 60 in wingspan and is as light as possible, allowing it to fly in very tight spaces. Possibly make it be able to drop another airplane. Then do a contest for spot landing
Great model! Next, make it a real seaplane. I have always wanted to do Nausicaa's Mehve. Maybe you guys can give it a shot as well, with a foam or lightweight mehve rider.
I bet a smaller diameter maybe 4 blade prop will help scale it better. Good luck! i look forward to the progress.
Awesome work, guys.
The plane looks great like really great and have huuuuuge potential, needs a lot of work on the motor mount of course some sort of a wing load mount that grows out of the wing center structure, do you get what i mean josh ? , the rest is standered , very nice to see jeremy do a build keep going my friend 😁
Josh: We gotta find whether we wanna go cartoon or whether we wanna go back to scale
Jeremy: Josh, you're going to upset the weebs; don't say "cartoon".
As someone who watches anime, that cracked me up. Nice work as usual, FliteTest!
Love seeing a movie plane. Here is a challenge since you want to do move planes. FT and Drive-on need to do a flying Delorean. A flying time machine.
such a fun, hearty video:) i love all the different crew members being introduced:) like!
Been seeing the teases in all the episodes and my dream has finally come true.
Finish it! I need a single engine sea plane I can scale up and modify for 10-15 foot wingspan, and mostly coroplast construction. An engineer I am not, but most of your plans scale up beautifully and even I can manage the structural modifications to make them airworthy.
Looks like a great plane to build!
J & J nice going smooth, Jeff
That is the Flite Test I love.
Now you GOT to make the pusher plane from The Wings of Honnêamise. Or better the Glider from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
Nice rounded fuselage!
It flies great!
Flite test should try building the canard fighter from "Allison & Lillia", that is a good anime for finding cool planes :)
Nice bird, good work.
nice work Jeremy
Next up in "mystery back ground planes not finished until fans figure it out": Jet powered mehve.
I was thinking about Porco Rosso plane for years. Such a charismatic plane.
Maybe it should be two versons? Like a simple foamboard thing and a version with double curve nose 3d printed or cut of block of foam?
And please, make it floatable.
Awesome Plane :D
EXCELLENT work!!
I love these new projects ❤️
Porco Rosso is a pretty good movie. I liked The Wind Rises a lot more.
Brilliant! Were there any issues with the thrust line being so high? Did you have to dial in a lot of up trim, or shim the motor at an angle?
*Top 10 Anime Crossovers*
You guys just blew my otaku mind!!
I dreamed of that plane model in rc and you just did it!!
Always been big fan of Miyazaki flying pig!!
Thanks forever!!
Is it in the store yet?
Will you make the skin to sell with it or we paintit ourself?
I SO thought this was a Tiger Moth! LOL (Very Cool!) Love the idea of building from movies/Shows (aks Sea Duck)
Yes! Do it! And great video. Wish we could get more than 7 minute videos tho...
Yes! Please do more!!
Love the precision measurements, try 3-d printing a clip for back of razor blade ,just a idea
You guys need to come to Indy!
just fell in love with that thing
Awesome! Can you build some of the planes from The sky crawlers
Bamboo skewers work awesome.
Awesome, guys! 😀
Was that motor a SunnySky 2212? 😮
big emax
mike j Oh... 😔