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Nausicaa Glider Integrated into Flight Simulator
Date: 1/12/2007
Mycom Journal has images from the "Kazuhiko Hachiya - OpenSky 2.0" exhibition at the "NTT intercommunication center (NTT ICC)" in Tokyo which has ran since December 15, 2006. Artist Kazuhiko Hachiya is known for developing the e-mail "Post Pet" software. Now he's developed a 1/1 scale Moewe glider like the one used in Hayayo Miyazaki's Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind. The M-02 personal jet glider is said to be actually able fly, manned tests are expected to occur in the spring and summer. Another scale model is rigged up to the flight simulator "OpenSky2.0". The exhibition runs through March 11th. Here is "M-02". Slashdot reported on the project in 2004.
Source: Anime News Service