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The longest video of the biggest HO scale airport in the world
YouTube ^ | JAN 2014 | Bastiaan Blinksma

Posted on 10/18/2015 3:20:20 PM PDT by Swordmaker

For all aviation and model hobbyists on FR, this is fascinating. This is a two hour video of the world's largest HO scale model Airport assembled at Miniature Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany.


Miniatur Wunderland computer control room

It is completely computer controlled where Aircraft of various kinds take off, land, taxi around, park on the tarmac, maneuver into and out of hangers, have emergencies such as engine fires to be met by emergency vehicles, and even have a Space Shuttle landing or a humorously over-sized bumble bee take off (around 18 minutes into the video).

The longest video of the biggest HO scale airport in the world


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: aircraft; aviation; homodels
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1 posted on 10/18/2015 3:20:21 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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The attention to detail is fascinating. . .


2 posted on 10/18/2015 3:24:45 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

And all I ever wanted was a model train set.


3 posted on 10/18/2015 3:31:01 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Awesome! It would be nice to see a little Entebbe sequence in the corner, too, with miniature Jihadis.


4 posted on 10/18/2015 3:41:54 PM PDT by golux
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To: Swordmaker

Geek neurons firing.

Space shuttle sighting at 12 min 20 sec.

The landing/takeoff mechanisms are clever.


5 posted on 10/18/2015 3:45:57 PM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Swordmaker
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6 posted on 10/18/2015 4:05:47 PM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Swordmaker

Biggest? There are others?


7 posted on 10/18/2015 4:29:57 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (Khach san La Vang hanh huong tham vieng Maria)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

ping


8 posted on 10/18/2015 4:39:06 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Swordmaker

I tip my hat to those that were involved in the design, fabrication, layout, interconnections, and all visual displays!

From an electronics standpoint, this might have seemed a nightmare, but it is called perserverance in what you love.

I was a an aircraft modeler (1/72nd scale) in my elementary school years, when all the kits, glue, paints and other brushes (airbrushes were not yet) were right out on the shelf ready to pick out and purchase in the department stores.

I did have an H.O. scale train set, and did get to see some elaborate model train layouts.

Thanks for posting this!!!


9 posted on 10/18/2015 4:50:29 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Swordmaker
Heavy Asperger's Syndrome going on there... hahaha!

My go-to favorite, however, still is and always will be, Roadside America in Shartlesville, PA.

The way they have dawn breaking as Kate Smith sings God Bless America always gets me. Very patriotic.

I encourage all FReepers to stop by if they are in the area (not far from Cabela's) and spend a few dollars there to keep it going for another 80 years.

10 posted on 10/18/2015 5:05:45 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Swordmaker

They’ll soon have to have the plane crashing when the muzzies take over Germany.


11 posted on 10/18/2015 5:12:48 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Swordmaker

As a child this would have been my ultimate dream for Christmas....I remembered how thrilled I was when I got this for Christmas.

Remco Kennedy Airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEfPc9xA2VE


12 posted on 10/18/2015 5:20:07 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Swordmaker
The attention to detail is fascinating. . .

Except...not to pick nits...I didn't notice any thrust reversers on any of the engines on incoming aircraft. I might have missed them but I was looking for them.

13 posted on 10/18/2015 5:55:17 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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Lol! That’s great!


14 posted on 10/18/2015 6:33:38 PM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Swordmaker

They should have had foam shooting out of the fire trucks for the one on fire, should have had baggage trains running around, could also add a flock of geese on the runway or even a stray animal, or a hot air balloon.
On a different part helos taking off, another part to add to the fast clock is fog, lightning or high winds.


15 posted on 10/18/2015 6:39:36 PM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Trump to win! He wins, we win, the nation wins!)
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To: Swordmaker
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16 posted on 10/18/2015 7:31:47 PM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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Photos 8, 9, and 10. . . "The Lufthansa Heist"

ROTFLMAO!

Thanks, I needed that!

17 posted on 10/18/2015 8:11:28 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Rodamala
Heavy Asperger's Syndrome going on there... hahaha!

Ya know, I actually had the exact same thought! LOL!

18 posted on 10/18/2015 8:12:53 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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Thanks, I needed that!

Why, are you a Colts and/or Chicago Cubs fan?

19 posted on 10/18/2015 8:35:20 PM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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Why, are you a Colts and/or Chicago Cubs fan?

Well, I used to collect antique Colt revolvers. . .

20 posted on 10/18/2015 8:52:20 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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