Planes

Dusty Crophopper is a young single-prop agriculture plane that lives in the small town of Propwash Junction. Dusty dreams of competing alongside his high-flying heroes in the ‘Wings Around the Globe’ Rally, but suffers from a crippling fear of heights. His mentor Skipper is convinced that Dusty has the engine to compete with the best, and helps encourage him to pursue his lifelong dreams. But if Dusty wants to make his dreams a reality, he’ll need to face his fears and push himself further than he ever imagined.

Planes is a Spin Off film based on the Disney/Pixar franchise Cars, produced by DisneyToon Studios, the studio behind the Tinkerbell film series. The film is directed by Klay Hall and is under the creative leadership of John Lasseter, who also directed both of the Cars films.

Planes will be released Direct to DVD in Spring 2013, the trailer can be viewed here. A sequel is apparently in development as well.

The in-progress character sheet can be found here.

Tropes

 * Acrophobic Plane: Dusty.
 * Adorkable: Dusty. Helps that he's voiced by Jon Cryer.
 * Big Bad: Ripslinger, the defending champion.
 * The Cameo: It's expected that Lightning McQueen and/or Mater will make an appearance at some point in the film.
 * Cool Plane: The trailer features a pair of jet fighters who appear to be major characters, as well as a stealth bomber.
 * Direct to DVD
 * Early Bird Cameo: Skipper, Sparky and all of Propwash Junction appeared in the short Air Mater.
 * Furry Confusion: Some of the airplanes in the film act like birds.
 * Grease Monkey: Skipper's righthand forklift Sparky.
 * The Big Race: The Wings Around the Globe Rally.
 * The Obi Wan: Skipper is this for Dusty.
 * Those Two Guys: The two jet fighters.