Miniatur Wunderland Weekly Report
09.09.08 at 11:22 hrs
Weekly Report No 410, CW 36
From Monday, 01.09.08.2008 to Sunday, 07.09.2008
In this report we have a look at the progress of the airport section.
In report no 398 we already introduced a small Mock-up version for the underground airport station. This station is now built full size.
Another, quite important element on airports are freight containers which we already showed you in report no 406. During the last days, the "raw" shapes were stripped off their white paint and manually painted aluminum silver. Since, on an airport our size, you need some hundred containers, a few hours have to be planned for this job.
In report no 407 we showed you a prototype which in the meantime passed all test runs successfully. Now the model builder are about to give these vehicles their final design.
Work on the airport area also continues. Currently, we have a meeting of the giants going on here. Using the largest aircraft available in civilian aviation, we now check the clearances at the terminals and apron. However, not only the aircraft need enough clearances but the rest ov immobile and mobile infra-structure has also to be adjusted accordingly.
More than 6 weeks have elapsed (see WR 404) since we started the track conversion work underneath the Knuffingen section to connect the airport to the rest of the world. This work is now almost finished (at least as far as the hidden trakcs are concerned ) and now, the new throat for Knuffingen station can be tackled.
Another kind of detail work is now waiting for the model builders - more than 1,000 vehicles will have to be parked the large multi-storey car parks of the airport. Before driving up the ramps, however, the cars must be equipped with number plates and lights. More detailled information regarding this task will be in the next report.
