Author Topic: Nausicaa glider comes to life (Read 1999 times)

Tuffty · « **on:** December 16, 2006, 04:42:11 PM »

If you’re an anime fan, this is some real interesting piece of news for you! I’m absolutely convinced that most of you have seen the movie Nausicaa. In this movie, the princess Nausicaa uses some sort of flying wing to travel. Once again, our Japanese friends are giving life to what used to be fiction, and created some kind of glider designed exactly like Nausicaa’s flying wing. This is the OpenSky 2.0 project jointly developed with NTT. Cool, eh?

Sounds cool, but I'd like it to undergo severe testing before I ever took it for a spin. It's the whole, jet engine strapped onto wings whilst standing on it part that does it for me.

den4 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 16, 2006, 06:07:29 PM »

Looks cool....I wonder if they'll add an engine to it for power one of these years.....?

john_hung · « **Reply #2 on:** December 16, 2006, 06:10:13 PM »

that's pretty awesome...now we just need real-life gundams

Blebekblebek · « **Reply #3 on:** December 16, 2006, 08:02:49 PM »

what about this? http://bitter.swee.to/gundam.html

LovelyMermaid · « **Reply #4 on:** December 16, 2006, 08:07:33 PM »

Woooaahhh does the gundam fly?!

And that plane thing's really amazing looking!! I've never seen the anime or anything but it looks cool!

Tuffty · « **Reply #5 on:** December 16, 2006, 09:42:30 PM »

Quote from: LovelyMermaid;260452

And that plane thing's really amazing looking!! I've never seen the anime or anything but it looks cool!

Just pray that scientists don't get any further ideas from the anime and try to breed a new species of giant insects

chera · « **Reply #6 on:** December 16, 2006, 10:35:39 PM »

They're a loooong way away from a working Mehve, although I admire the designers for their dedication. For one thing, the Mehve was made of ceramics, where OpenSky is made mostly of high-tech composites. Mehve was capable of V/STOL, while OpenSky is designed to be towed (I think). Several times in the manga and anime, the Mehve was flying upside-down, which I can't imagine happening in real life. I'm interested in whether they'll end up need computers in it to stabilize it during flight. Flying wing designs can be a bit tricky.

raspberrygashes · « **Reply #7 on:** December 16, 2006, 11:47:03 PM »

I wouldn't have the guts to ride on that, though it looks really cool

I wonder who would, though?

hibachifinal · « **Reply #8 on:** December 18, 2006, 04:11:18 AM »

now.
with advances on stemcell/cloning/genetics.

hopefully they can make a real life totoro.

would be hella creepy though