Modelling HO airport - with planes taking off!!

[sswcharlie]

Hi

Anyone done an airport with a small plane taking off ?    Similar to the layout in Hamburg.   Miniature Wunderland.

What ideas are there for having a plane move down the runway and take off in to the wild blue yonder?

Chuck Harris

[peteski]

Unless you want to use a clothes-line-like contraption, the system used by Miniature Wunderland seems pretty clever.

[pnolan48]

I think HO is large enough to have a self powered plane. Now, guiding it is another problem. That take-off run is still pretty long in HO.

[jimmo]

With all the real estate required to model an HO-scale runway--even a small strip--(I think) the concept is nowhere near feasible for most of us.

I'm incorporating a small airport service facility into my present N-scale layout and about all I can fit in is a small corner of it with a runway that's out of view. Maybe one of my scratchbuilt planes sitting there with its props spinning...