Regia Aeronautica

The Italian Royal Air Force (Regia Aeronautica Italiana) was the name of the air force of the Kingdom of Italy. Its planes are briefly seen in Porco Rosso and The Wind Rises films.

Airplanes

 * The Macchi M.5 was an Italian single-seat fighter flying boat designed and built by Nieuport-Macchi at Varese. It was extremely maneuverable and agile and matched the land-based aircraft it had to fight.

Background
As Porco Rosso soars above the clouds, he sees a vision of pilots from different eras flying up towards the stratosphere. This sequence is said to have been inspired by Road Dahl's short story, They Shall Not Grow Old. The shot of ghost planes flying in the distance was later riffed in The Wind Rises.

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Italienische Luftwaffe