The hat, having fallen to the deck, is tumbling around.
TOJI (p.d. - OFF):“Damn it~~”
UrsusArctos: When I saw that five-pointed-star-shaped-thing on the flight deck, I decided to look up the fire protection system that carriers use. And guess what, that's a very accurately drawn US Navy wash-down nozzle that sits flush with the flight deck. It's exactly the kind of thing that you'd expect to find unobtrusively tucked away in the flight deck of a real aircraft carrier. The attention to detail for a background object seen for a second or two is extraordinary!
Alaska Slim: I don't fully get this love Mr. Anno has for colliding American and Russian tech, but he had been doing it for a while by this point. Royal Space Forcefeatures a rocket that's a clear mishmash of a Soyuz and a Saturn V.
Zusuchan: For those not in the know, Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise is a 1987 anime on which Anno worked as an animator. The film was the debut work of Studio Gainax and you can find echoes of it in Anno's later works.
UrsusArctos: Royal Space Force also lavishes a level of detail around its machines that verges on the jaw-dropping. And Slim - the rocket you refer to is actually a proto-Soyuz Vostok with a Saturn V-style cryogenic (liquid hydrogen and oxygen) upper stage.
