Immediately striking is the all-metal construction, the tandem engines and "twice as thick as you think" wings. Next up is the pirate gang Mamma Aiuto's seaplane, the Dabohaze. I'd like to at least see a higher camber and angle of attack on the wings to generate extra lift, and perhaps a lower centre of gravity.Īlright.
So, I suppose, it's more or less feasible. Ok, so Porco does say it's difficult to take off in the film, and a wonder to handle in the sky. Speed: Very fast, with that angle of incidence and that enormous engine sitting on top Handling: Unbelievably difficult to not stall, take off and land, but would probably handle veyr well in flight because of the instability Perhaps if it had a lower centre of gravity and more powerful engine then it would be a little more feasible, but certainly still an. 21 overweight even at the highest of speeds. Although, it must be said, having all of these characteristics with enough lift would produce an extremely agile aircraft, but I think that the high angle of incidence on the wings would make the S. Whilst having a smaller, lighter engine all that way up would maybe be alright for it's centre of gravity, a big, meaty racing engine would weigh the plane down, pull the nose down when the throttle is touched, and make the centre of gravity somewhere thirty miles above the where it should be. Let's put this together - the wing is supported above the fuselage by several metal rods, and then the engine is mounted on top of the wing using several more. Also not helping the stall characteristics would be that enormous engine sitting on top of the wing. Even in flight, it would stall fairly easily because of the angle of incidence. This generally helps jet aircraft be more aerodynamic in the air and help it to maneuver more easily, but on a 1930s seaplane I think that it might have a detrimental effect on the lift produced and the ability to move about at the comparatively low speeds that the plane would be able to achieve. But of course, we have to include that high angle of incidence on the wings. There are also no flaps on the airplane which would again make it difficult to take off and land.
For a seaplane, this isn't the most fantastic idea, as it requires plenty of lift to get one off of the water. There aren't any surprising deep camber designs in it, so it would produce a middling lift wing middling drag.
You can see in the film the aircraft having a middling wing camber on the aerofoil. A wooden frame with metal covering is a common strategy of aircraft construction, and offers a fairly light construction with quite strong characteristics. However, it is later shown that when rebuilding the aircraft the women are bending metal sheets, presumably to cover the aircraft. The material that it is made out of appears to be wood, as seen in that bit when Curtiss picks up a fragment of it for evidence that he shot down Porco. The most obvious first choice would be the Savoia S.21 that Porco pilots. First, then, it's Porco Rosso and the aircraft in that.
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