#mehve

[bluebirbb]

[sete-estrelo]

New print for Comic-Con Amsterdam

[chasma-abyss]

[iheartvelma]

Kazuhiko Hachiya, a Japanese product designer, interactive artist and software developer (he created PostPet, an early email service that’s also kind of like a Tamagotchi?) spent over $1M of his profits to develop a working version of the Mehve glider from Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. 

Powered by a miniature jet engine, it’s a naturally unstable flying wing that is steered by leaning in the direction you want to go in, basically. Here is a 2017 video of a test flight over a small Japanese airstrip. 

He asked Miyazaki for permission. The response he got: “Please don’t die.”

[bluebirbb]

[nwyfiant]

Mehve and Mushi-Bue, 2017 Papier-mâché

Works in progress.  We were given a bunch of old newspapers as a craft material.  Naturally, I started thinking of fun things to make that were probably too advanced for someone of my skill level.  To start making some interesting mistakes, I chose to try to make Nausicaä’s Mehve/Möwe/gull jet-glider from 風の谷のナウシカ/Kaze no Tani no Naushika/Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind.  Superficially this is a simple shape, but really it’s an example of advanced concept aeronautica.  Part way through, I thought a complimentary side project might be to make her Mushi-Bue/Insect Flute.  It’s swung on the end of a string to make a droning sound.  Miyazaki-sama loves wind.

[prehistoricsilverfish]

fuck yeah

[rainytheoristfox-blog-blog]

How fun would it be to ride that glider? <3

I’ll get around to reading that manga eventually...