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[[Truth in Television|Actual]] aircraft in the early days of aviation, as well as many early unsuccessful attempts to build flying machines, may well fit here. [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] deserves special mention for dreaming up many fanciful aircraft in the early 16th century (several examples below were inspired by his work). The trope likely stopped applying to [[Real Life]] sometime after [[World War I]] as airplanes gradually became more streamlined, less improbable-looking, and more mundane.
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* Those Babylon Rouges of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' certainly have a nice airship.
* ''[[Spore]]'' allows you to build your own not only as airships, but also as spaceships! That's right, you can really let your [[Steampunk]] ideas go loose in this.
* Beedle's shop in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]''. A square wooden helicopter in a world that otherwise doesn't have powered flight. It's powered by pedalling and has some sort of [[Schizo Tech|primitive computer]].
* Several [[Final Fantasy]] games (most notably VI and IX) take place in worlds where the local civilization is just beginning to conquer skies. So the local [[Global Airship]] is usually built in this aesthetic.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Futurama]]'', despite being set in the 31st century, occasionally shows flying machines that fit this trope right alongside [[Flying Car|Flying Cars]] and [[Shiny
** Leonardo's spaceship in "The Duh-Vinci Code" is probably an example, though, and there are more on the planet Vinci.
* Parodied in a 1995 episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' that featured a fortune-teller predicting Lisa's life in the far-off future year of [[The New Tens|2010]]. We see [[Not Allowed to Grow Up|eight-year-old]]- er, ''twenty-three-year-old'' Lisa travel in a "futuristic" airliner that looks like the [[Hot Skitty On Wailord Action|illegitimate child of a modern jumbo-jet and the Wright Flyer]], with numerous fragile-looking canvas wings attached to a modern-looking fuselage.
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* The Flintstone Flyer in the first episode of ''[[The Flintstones]]'', a pedal-operated whirlygig invented by Barney (despite the name). Later in the series, planes were just modern airliners with pterodactyls instead of jets, or else [[Giant Flyer|one giant pterodactyl]] with a cabin mounted on top.
* Used at least once (probably more, due to the Steampunk setting) in ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]''.
* Seen in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', "Griffon the Brush-Off", where Pinkie Pie tries at one point to keep up with Rainbow Dash and Gilda in a pedal-powered helicopter decorated with candy-cane stripes which Dash accurately describes as a "crazy contraption".
** {{spoiler|Tank the tortoise}} gets outfitted with propellers in "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E7 May the Best Pet Win|May The Best Pet Win!]]".
* The ''St. George'' from ''[[Dragon Hunters]]''.
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