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  1. 12-10-2012, 08:16 PM #1
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    A most amazing fully functional miniature airport

    watch it long enough to catch actual landings, from jumbos to propeller crafts
    http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v...eature=related
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  2. 12-11-2012, 04:30 AM #2
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    That's insane. So how do they 'fly' the planes. Strings, magnets, ????
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  3. 12-11-2012, 04:51 AM #3
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    CE: Watch the take offs at the end of the video and you can see the wires lifting the planes up as they take off...this is insane !
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    at about 2/3rds of the video you can see closer how take offs and landing soccur. they are on little rods. I think when it parks itself for takeoff the chain drive below the runway slips a carrier
    and picks up the plane for a ride to the clouds, likely goes around a carousel of sorts and does a landing a bit later.
    there is so much going on there that there must be several computers controlling the different aspects of a working airport.
    Really mind blowing accomplishment. Germans?
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  5. 12-11-2012, 07:33 AM #5
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    Be sure to watch in HD Knuffingen Airport is part of a museum, Miniatur Wunderland.

    The planes are actually on rods, see these vids for how it works:

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0pqyoZ_AL5o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Qz4NcTnQedo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    EDIT: Oh yeah, check out the train set!

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HjwRZlkH9uk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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