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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Once upon a time flying was not the relatively mundane commute that it is today, but an adventure into an unexplored realm, a victory over gravity that was long thought to be impossible. Flying machines were not the shiny, high-technology Cool Planes we regularly see in the sky nowadays, but fabulous contraptions cobbled together by Mad Scientists, sporting lots of spinny bits, belching smoke and fire, risky and magnificent. This trope is for all flying machines that reflect this aesthetic, and this romantic way of looking at human flight. It is most usually found in Steam Punk and Raygun Gothic works, but may also have a place in Fantasy and even Historical Fiction. In more fantasy-oriented works, Sky Pirates may make use of their magnificent flying machines to plough the ocean of air in their search for prey. Floating Continents and a World in the Sky may or may not be involved. Please don't try to take this trope too far into the realm of fantasy, though. Letting flight be entirely explained by magic, for example, would not have the same feel or meaning for the story. A flying ship kept airborne by a wizard's spell would not count as an example of this trope (though a flying ship that uses magic to drive a hundred tiny propellers very well might). Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Generally, a magnificent flying machine will have one or several of the following features: |
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Hark! A Vagrant: The Jules Verne approach vs. the H.G. Wells approach. | |
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On Dinosaur Train, "Dinosaur Train: Zeppelin Adventure" is a two-part special featuring the latest innovation from Dinosaur Train Industries: a zeppelin. It doesn't seem to travel through time, but it can the characters places that the train and the submarine can't. It comes complete with its own catchy theme tune. | |
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Bioshock Infinite, the floating city of Columbia powered by HARD, if somewhat questionable, science, and with a delightful early 1900 style, it is truly a marvelous, magnificent flying city. | |
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And Warhammer: Age of Sigmar goes big with these, adding an entire faction of dwarves riding these and living in giant, flying cities. Even the most basic of armies is mostly composed of heavily-armed airships. | |
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Those Babylon Rouges of Sonic the Hedgehog certainly have a nice airship. | |
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The Simpsons: Parodied in a 1995 episode that featured a fortune-teller predicting Lisa's life in the far-off future year of 2010. We see eight-year-old- er, twenty-three-year-old Lisa travel in a "futuristic" airliner that looks like the illegitimate child of a modern jumbo-jet and the Wright Flyer, with numerous fragile-looking canvas wings attached to a modern-looking fuselage. Also parodied via a short sight-gag in another episode. The Da Vinci Airport note Perhaps meant to be the Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport near Rome. in Italy seems to be host to a lot of flying machines designed by the man it is named after. |
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The original Tom Swift series of books had Tom designing a succession of improbable, and sometimes magnificent, flying machines, starting with his combination dirigible/winged airship, Red Cloud. | |
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The air-ships in The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello appear to stay in the air solely through reaching a critical mass of Steam Punk. | |
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A regular fixture in Wondermark, such as "In Which Salvation is Summoned." | |
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Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons has a scene where the brothers need to ride a hang-glider that can be controlled by moving around and shifting weight to tilt the machine. | |
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Discworld Noir has Leonard of Quirm's Flapping-Wing-Flying-Device (pedal-powered ornithopter). A model briefly appears in Men at Arms, but in the game he's built a full-size version. Which Lewton flies in the final battle with Nylonathotep. | |
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In Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, the cadets at Calloway Military Academy have a pedal-powered helicopter. | |
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The Bat from The Dark Knight Rises deserves special mention - looking for all the world like the hollowed Tumbler body, and still it can fly. | |
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Gregor's steampunk balloon-ship in Waterworld. | |
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The Daughter of Twenty Faces has a double-balloon airship that is definitely strange, Steam Punk, and propeller-laden enough to count. | |
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Final Fantasy XII, in particular, features a world where commercial air travel is commonplace; it's definitely a luxury, but not so much of one that regular tourists and pilgrims can't afford it. Massive military fleets with giant cruisers and one-pilot fighters are also standard. And yet, having your personal airship is still a great symbol of freedom, accomplishment, and adventure, and Sky Pirates are idolized as rogue heroes and even role models for achieving this freedom, rather than regarded as dangerous criminals. | |
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In World of Warcraft, engineers can craft a Flying Machine (actually called that) that fits this trope perfectly. It looks like an old plane with tiny wings and a helicopter-like propeller on the top, belches smoke, and seems to barely stay airborne. If you idle in air with it, its engine will occasionally turn off for a second or so, causing it to fall a few feet before it turns back on. Flying Machines originated in Warcraft III, with two distinct variations: one has a fairly typical-looking helicopter rotor with a pair of propellers for forward thrust. The other has a pair of propeller-turbine contraptions that can rotate to point forward or downward, a bit like an Osprey VTOL aircraft. Both are made with the finest steampunk materials, of course. |
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The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. had Professor Wickwire working on an early airship. After surviving a lab explosion, he remarks that Hydrogen is difficult to work with. When he later produces a working airship using Helium, a Hurricane of Puns ensue around using lead in the construction. | |
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The Ornithopters ("Thopters" for short) from Magic: The Gathering. | |
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Lighthouse: The Dark Being features two ornithopters in the parallel world. One of them is shaped like a bat, and it can be remotely summoned when playing an electronic pan pipe at its highest frequency. | |
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The Wild Wild West series. | |
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In Code:Realize, Impey Barbicane successfully builds a steam-powered ornithopter. It looks like a mechanical mosquito with too many wings and, despite the fact that it seems like there should be no possible way it would ever get off the ground, manages to fly fast and high when needed and can also hover in place. | |
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Obsidian has its own moth-like Ornithopter. But don't even question how it flies in this case, 80% of the game is inside dream worlds; It's powered by a Zoetrope! | |
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Flying Machines originated in Warcraft III, with two distinct variations: one has a fairly typical-looking helicopter rotor with a pair of propellers for forward thrust. The other has a pair of propeller-turbine contraptions that can rotate to point forward or downward, a bit like an Osprey VTOL aircraft. Both are made with the finest steampunk materials, of course. | |
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Last Exile and its sequel feature an assortment of Diesel Punk aircraft in both "fighter plane" and "battleship" sizes with the overall technology level of early 20th century. They fly using anti-gravity engines powered by a mysterious ore, which are a surviving relic of a more enlightened age - as in, they can be built and replicated but the exact science behind them is long forgotten. | |
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Project0, because they know that Owen fell from the sky the kids try to build one of these thinking it's the best way to get him home. They have blueprints for a model helicopter, but the machine is a mix between a helicopter and a hovercraft. Considering Owen is a Reality Warper it's probably an easy mistake to make for a group of kids. |
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Robur the Conqueror, by Jules Verne, on which the film Master of the World was largely based (and not so much on the same author's book Master of the World), featuring the "aeronef" Albatross. It was powered by electricity and used lots of airscrews for both lift and propulsion, and was made of highly-compressed paper. | |
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Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, and Spirited Away are exceptions, but tend to feature flying scenes anyway, via high-jumping, running on cliffs, dragon-riding, or treetop cat-bus rides. | |
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The Barnstormer from Total Annihilation: Kingdoms, which resembles a three-way cross between the Wright Flyer, a helicopter, and a bat. | |
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The Prop Cycle is a flying bicycle that the player controls using a real bike in the arcade cabinet. | |
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Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines. | |
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In the 2003 anime version of Fullmetal Alchemist, this is Ed's reaction to seeing the WWI planes of our world. | |
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The film Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (the Trope Namer, as you might guess) opens with a brief "history of flight," featuring plenty of improbable and amusing contraptions. The opening credits feature a flotilla of humorous animated examples. The racing airplanes in the movie itself are also examples, and, notably, are all fairly faithful reproductions of actual early aircraft. The "History of Flight" sequence was apparently a compilation that somebody had put together back in the 1920s, saving the movie's producers the job of making it themselves. |
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In Gigantic each team of heroes arrive on the battlefield aboard a winged airship and re-spawn there if they die in combat. | |
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The various steampunk-ish aircraft seen in Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra are generally pretty plausible, but Asami's airship is as magnificent as it is impossible. It looks like the offspring of a blimp and a skyscraper, being mostly made of glass and metal and featuring an excessively huge and lavishly-decorated bridge. Eight comparatively small propellers attached to the back half of the ship (via huge and ornate metal frames) supposedly keep the monster airborne. | |
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The Vinci faction from Rise of Legends are all steampunk-ish, and so are their flying machines. Specifically, the flying machines come from the Pirata city-state, and some feature equipment like grappling hooks clearly meant for boarding. |
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In Rocket Age the H'Slit tribes of Venus make sail-ships, gliders and sail-planes out of wood, bone and incredibly carved stone fittings. The largest are capable of up to a dozen Venusians. It is likely these contraptions only fly due to the immense heat rising from Venus's depths. | |
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From Wacky Races, you had the Crimson Haybaler. | |
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Parodied in The Colbert Report with the fictional film The Splendiferous Zeppelin Escapades of Filliam H. Muffman which served as a vehicle to make fun of the union of William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman. | |
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The Flintstone Flyer in the first episode of The Flintstones, a pedal-operated whirlygig invented by Barney (despite the name). Later in the series, planes were just modern airliners with pterodactyls instead of jets, or else one giant pterodactyl with a cabin mounted on top. | |
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The Goodies sometimes made their "trandem" bicycle fly, albeit precariously, by attaching it to a balloon. In their own "great race" episode, Graham manages to save their lives when their car going over a cliff by having it deploy wings. | |
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The steam-powered, wing-flapping aircraft of Howl's Moving Castle are beautiful examples, including both giant warplanes and small commuter craft. Eventually, the castle itself becomes an example. | |
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Castle in the Sky might as well be considered flying machine porn. | |
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The vehicles in the air battle between the Devil Doctor and Professor Moriarty in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. | |
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The flying machine of Alexander LeRoi in the Batman Elseworld comic Master of the Future. | |
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Gil's bat-wing flyer in Girl Genius counts (and provides the page quote, here). Some of the Cool Airships found throughout the work are examples as well. And lifegliders. Can't forget lifegliders. If the survival equipment looks like offspring of a bat and a blimp, this tells something about the world. |
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KK's steam helicopter in FreakAngels. | |
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Beedle's shop in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. A square wooden helicopter in a world that otherwise doesn't have powered flight. It's powered by pedalling and has some sort of primitive computer. | |
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Sherlock Hound has many examples, the biggest of which being Episode Five: 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle' where Moriarty uses a pink, Pterodactyl-shaped biplane as a distraction for a jewel heist and Episode Ten: 'The White Cliffs of Dover' concerning a rash of sabotages with the Royal Mail's air service to Europe and sees the return of the aforementioned Pterodactyl. | |
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Shovel Knight's Propeller Knight commands an airship that is kept aloft by two gigantic propellers and propels itself through the sky by means of giant oars. There's another, smaller airship docked above one of villages which, from the outside, appears to be a blimp, but you can climb up inside what should be the part where the lighter-than-air gas is contained and find a blacksmith's forge in there, calling into question what exactly is keeping the ship in the air, since no mention is made of it being magical. |
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In Once Upon a Forest a trio of young Woodland Creatures take their professor's plans for a flying machine called "The Flapper Wingamathing" with them on a quest to retrieve a plant that will help their comatose friend, and are able to build a scale replica of the contraption using Bamboo Technology to get the plant from a steep cliff face. | |
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In De cape et de crocs, Bombastus builds a pedal-powered flying machine with flapping wings, all thanks to Bamboo Technology. Subverted in that half-way through the flight, he realizes it's not actually working - just slowing their fall. | |
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The film Young Sherlock Holmes featured one of these. | |
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The Wind Rises goes even further and is a honest-to-God (if a bit fictionalized) biography of a real life Japanese aircraft engineer Jiro Horikoshi, a one time chief designer of Mitsubishi Aircraft, of which the Miyazaki brothers' factory was a subcontractor. | |
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An episode of Valérian, "World Without Stars", had pseudo-Renaissance blimps pulled by teams of horse-sized insects. The airships we see at the end could also qualify, since they're basically modified old-school balloons. |
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The Castle of Cagliostro adds a classic autogyro as a Chekhov's Gun. | |
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Lawrence III's 'hovercraft' in Pokémon 2000, which despite being composed of massive structural girders and massive expensively decorated rooms, is held aloft by slowly rotating propellers above and below the tips of the structural girders. Contrast this with its aversion in the helicopter Dr.Oak and co. arrive in, which would be pretty bog standard for Real Life. | |
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Futurama, despite being set in the 31st century, occasionally shows flying machines that fit this trope right alongside Flying Cars and Shiny-Looking Spaceships. Bender once referred to the protagonists' Cool Starship as "the Flying Machine", evoking this trope (though their ship is not itself an example). Leonardo's spaceship in "The Duh-Vinci Code" is probably an example, though, and there are more on the planet Vinci. |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was an old-time race car fitted with little wings and propellers. Though its flying power was All Just a Dream... or was it? | |
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The airplane (later converted into a helicopter) in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. | |
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Several Final Fantasy games (most notably VI and IX) take place in worlds where the local civilization is just beginning to conquer skies. So the local Global Airship is usually built in this aesthetic. Final Fantasy XII, in particular, features a world where commercial air travel is commonplace; it's definitely a luxury, but not so much of one that regular tourists and pilgrims can't afford it. Massive military fleets with giant cruisers and one-pilot fighters are also standard. And yet, having your personal airship is still a great symbol of freedom, accomplishment, and adventure, and Sky Pirates are idolized as rogue heroes and even role models for achieving this freedom, rather than regarded as dangerous criminals. |
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The flyers in Jade Empire. Rocket-propelled Magitek-powered cloth-winged constructions designed and built by a mad god named Kang. They really ought to shred themselves rather than actually flying. | |
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The chicken coop-turned airplane at the end of Chicken Run. | |
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Lady Mechanika has the Lewis Flyer, which appears to be a steam-powered vintage car with ornithopter wings and a helicopter rotor that somehow still manages to fly. | |
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The 1972 Scooby-Doo episode "The Ghost Of The Red Baron" (crossover with The Three Stooges) had bi-planes all over the place, one of which, airborne, had Velma in the cockpit—and she doesn't know how to operate it. | |
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Master of the World featured the propeller-studded Albatross. | |
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In The Familiar of Zero, there are ships with wings. How they fly? Wizards did it. Literally. | |
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The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne had a few. 'Aurora' certainly qualifies. "Master of Air and Darkness"/"Southern Comfort" also introduce a flying battleship. | |
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The metallic Deffkopta model in Warhammer 40,000. Plastic models however are more subdued, just looking like a bike modded into a helicopter. This works because it is made by Orks; they're idiots with telekinetic powers, so if they believe something will work, it does. In Warhammer Fantasy, the Dwarfs have steam-powered "Gyrocopters", while the Dogs of War have the Birdmen of Catrazza, canvas-winged humans using da Vinci-esque pedal-powered flight suits. And Warhammer: Age of Sigmar goes big with these, adding an entire faction of dwarves riding these and living in giant, flying cities. Even the most basic of armies is mostly composed of heavily-armed airships. |
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In The Great Race — a Dueling Film with the above — the evil Professor Fate uses a small pedal-powered airship to try and drop a bomb onto the hero, with predictable results. | |
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Seen in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "Griffon the Brush-Off", where Pinkie Pie tries at one point to keep up with Rainbow Dash and Gilda in a pedal-powered helicopter decorated with candy-cane stripes which Dash accurately describes as a "crazy contraption". Tank the tortoise gets outfitted with propellers in "May The Best Pet Win!". In "Sweet and Elite", Rarity christens an airship, which is made up of a conventional-looking boat suspended from a fish-shaped balloon. In "Testing Testing 1, 2, 3", Twilight narrowly avoids hitting a panicked Cherry Berry flying a hoof-powered helicopter. |
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Albert the Fifth Musketeer sometimes made use of a human-powered ornithopter. In the contraption's debut episode, it doesn't allow a Crew of One (or at least, not when the pilot is too short to reach the pedals), so he has to ask the Queen to help him pilot it to rescue the rest of his team. | |
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Wendy Darling's uncle in Peter and the Starcatchers Peter and the Sword of Mercy has built an ornithopter that's in its early testing stages. By the second time we see it being tested, it's fully functional, even before Wendy dumps her supply of starstuff into the fuel tank to extend its range. | |
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Used at least once (probably more, due to the Steampunk setting) in The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. | |
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A Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch has an inventor wearing a flying machine that consisted of two small wings on his back, powered by a hand crank on his chest. It turns out (in a brilliant visual gag) not to work particularly well. Some of these also showed up in Terry Gillam's animated linking sequences. | |
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Because the game doesn't limit on what shape you can make your airships in Airships: Conquer the Skies, it usually results in this trope. Usually the basic design of airship with bare bone essentials are big wooden boxes, lifted to the sky only by the power of suspendium. | |
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Around the World in 80 Days (2004): Fogg and co. build one of these out of pieces of their ship in order to finish their journey on time. | |
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In Updraft, use of hang-glider-esque wings to fly around and between the towers of the city is routine, and Kirit is very keen to pass her tests and become an airborne trader like her mother. These wings are also used for combat, both against monsters and in duels (including Trial by Combat). There do not seem to be any larger air vehicles, however; or powered ones. | |
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Deadlands, set in the 19th century with mad science, naturally uses this aesthetic for all of its aircraft. | |
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Spore allows you to build your own not only as airships, but also as spaceships! That's right, you can really let your Steampunk ideas go loose in this. | |
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Corki, the Daring Bombadier from League of Legends flies around the battlefield in a heavily-armed Magitek gyrocopter. | |
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The St. George from Dragon Hunters. | |
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Porco Rosso is a love letter to early aviation, using some of the most fanciful designs from real aviation to ever actually work. | |
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Guns of Icarus and its MMO sequel, Guns of Icarus Online, has you participating in combat between different kinds of fanciful airships in a Steampunk setting. | |
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Most of the flying machines seen in the first episode of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. | |
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Kiki's Delivery Service has a pedal powered experimental plane and extensive broomstick flight scenes. There's also the H. P. 42 biplane airliner in the opening credits. | |
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Whenever the generic GURPS line tackles more or less Steampunk themes, it naturally tends to involve the odd eccentric flying contraption. For example: In the steampunk Roman Empire that dominates the Roma Aeterna timeline in GURPS Alternate Earths, the only native heavier-than-air flyer is the jactavolans, an incredibly dangerous melding of Roman glider and Chinese rocket technology used for scouting and courier purposes. In game terms, you have to roll Piloting checks on takeoff (to see if the rockets explode) and landing (to see if you crash). All jactavolans pilots are state-owned slaves who receive both their freedom and Roman citizenship if they survive a five-year term of service. The original GURPS Steampunk supplement featured a few instances, statted out for the Third Edition of the game. They were re-statted for the Fourth Edition in GURPS Vehicles: Steampunk Conveyances. |
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Hudson Hawk. A Leonardo da Vinci glider comes in handy for the title character and Anna Baragli. | |
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By Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, it has been fitted with a warp drive... but still powered by monkeys. | |
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The Mortal Engines series features lots of airships of all imaginable shapes and sizes (from couch-sized airships perfect for indoor flight to massive Air Dreadnoughts, and lots of assorted tramp traders in-between), perfect for adventuring in a vast Steampunk and Dieselpunk world. In the early books, the secrets of heavier-than-air flight have been lost, but later in the series we see all sorts of armed ornithopters, autogyros, and rickety biplanes competing with zeppelins in the sky. Air travel is heavily romanticized in the setting — air traders ply the "Bird Roads," seeing the world and having lots of glamorous and dangerous adventures. | |
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Space 1889 averted and played straight. Liftwood ships do not have wings, balloons or more than one propeller. They look and to a large extent function like ships. (Though the novel “A Prince of Mars” by Frank Chadwick describes the liftwood ships as less similar to regular ships than the role-playing game.) Even the early attempts at flight that historically looked like this are unlikely to occur in Space 1889 since liftwood has allowed practical flying ships. In the core book, however, there is a list of inventions that the player characters can make including flying machines. Many of them have illustrations that looks a lot like this. | |
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind has fanciful gliders and balloons. | |
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