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The glider used by the title character in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind has become an iconic visual in animation history – and now it exists in the real world. Or to be accurate, a glider modelled after Nausicaa’s does, and has successfully completed a test flight in front of a crowd of onlookers in the skies over Takikawa Sky Park in Hokkaido, Japan. The glider is called the M-02J, and...