I like very much the Miyazaki artworks. He is a great comic artist. But his animations are wonderful. In his works the animation of the flight gives us a feeling of realism.
Apart the masterpiece "Porco Rosso" (this story takes place in Italy, but in Italy this film was screened at the cinema only in 2012!), we can see different aircraft or flying machines almost in the majority of his works!
For example: the episode 145 from second Lupin III series and titled "Wings of Death - Albatross" was plenty of airplanes.
I know that during WWII his father was a director in a small factory that produced rudders for the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. And he loves airplanes.
Another interesting cartoonist and animator is Leiji Matsumoto. His film titled "The Cockpit" is composed by 3 different stories, all set in WWII. The first is a fictional story about a Luftwaffe pilot. The second tell the story about some japanese pilots (and kamikaze attack plane Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka) and the latter tell the story about two japanese soldiers that attempt to reach an air base.