Largest Miniature Airport

Submitted by iorlas on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 01:22

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Did a search, couldn't find it up already, PLANES take off, passengers wander through terminals and workers tend to the jets, but this is no ordinary airport. The world’s largest model airport/railway, the Knuffingen Airport, has gone on display in Germany. The incredible model is based on Hamburg Airport and features 40 planes and 90 vehicles that autonomously move around the airport. It took seven years to build and cost a staggering $4.8 million. The model includes a “carsystem” that manoeuvres the vehicles by computer. Meanwhile tiny wires move the planes, making them appear to fly

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I tried to find out to what scale this whole thing is built and came up with the following: - the entire display takes up 150 sq. meters - all of the trains at the Miniatur Wunderland are HO scale which is 1:87.1, so I'm guessing this is about the same - as of last summer the entire Wunderland included 200,000 H0 scale figures, 300,000 lights, 3500 buildings and bridges, 900 signals - and all run by a system of 40 computers.

Submitted by Phineas on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 05:28.

I must have missed the part where the passengers wandered through the terminals. They really focused on the landings but right as the plane would land. Would have liked to see it come down from higher maybe from a far shot. Still cool though.

Submitted by qvsushi on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 06:18.

but can I land my lawnmower there?

Submitted by Spoondangle on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 07:31.

i saw no miniature TSA forcing a new mother to pass her milk through some scanner as they kept her in some box for hours or any miniature TSA searching a terrorist 5 year old.

Submitted by MexicanOnline on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 08:28.