What was the strange cloud which Porco told Fio about?
It’s a cloud made of dead pilots and their planes making their last flight. The story is taken from Roald Dahl’s “They Shall Not Grow Old” in “Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying”, 1946. Miyazaki says he loves Dahl’s stories about pilots and planes (Dahl was in the Royal Air Force during World War II), though he doesn’t much care for his children’s stories such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”.
