Mitsubishi A5M

Mitsubishi A5M is a plane designed by Japanese engineers. It is seen in the movie The Wind Rises.

The engineering team is led by Jiro Horikoshi, who also designed. His company Mitsubishi Koukuuki pays his study in German Junkerswerken. For the design he takes inspirations of Hugo Junkers' and Giovanni Battista Caproni's planes. He also take his own ideas into his work. The use of rivet make the plane ligther and it is ahead of one's time.

Mitsubishi A5M