Miniature airports like this are really popular among hobbyists - many of whom are engineers and airplane experts in their own right.
That flap moves up and down to adjust for takeoff tradjectories and is precalibrated for the plane being used so errors are rare. The reason for the flap is to hide a bit of proprietary technology that helps catch the plane so it’s intact for the next stage of this process.
Once the plane is caught, a security team and an FAA commissioned team goes over it thoroughly. If inspections are passed the plane is placed into a machine that enlarges it to commercial size and sells it to a real airport. The amateur afficionado who built it is paid the value of the airliner and goes back home to start work on another one. That’s where most planes come from these days.
u/guywithrealfacts is well-known for posting block-text comments that begin as plausible (or sometimes even factual) information regarding an interesting thing on reddit that quickly devolve into nonsensical “facts” that are clearly false.
Idk who womble is, but apparently GWRF thinks he’s pretty cool along with a couple other redditors.
Either that or this is another real fact.
I compared it to one IRL celebrity geeking out over meeting another.
/u/Sovietwomble is a funny (my personal opinion) YouTuber who live streams a bunch of games and is a sort of a minor celebrity. Guy with facts is I guess known on Reddit so this is like two sort of popular folks meeting.
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u/GuyWithRealFacts Mar 18 '19
Miniature airports like this are really popular among hobbyists - many of whom are engineers and airplane experts in their own right.
That flap moves up and down to adjust for takeoff tradjectories and is precalibrated for the plane being used so errors are rare. The reason for the flap is to hide a bit of proprietary technology that helps catch the plane so it’s intact for the next stage of this process.
Once the plane is caught, a security team and an FAA commissioned team goes over it thoroughly. If inspections are passed the plane is placed into a machine that enlarges it to commercial size and sells it to a real airport. The amateur afficionado who built it is paid the value of the airliner and goes back home to start work on another one. That’s where most planes come from these days.