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Originally Posted by N. Eberhard
and also divide the width of the real runway by 1/400.
A funny mathematical reality about scale models. In the case of our beloved 1/400 models, they are not 1/400th the size of the real thing. They are actually 1/64,000,000 the total size. They are 1/400 the length TIMES 1/400 the width TIMES 1/400 the depth.
In other words, imagine a box that a real 747 would fit in. It would take roughly 64,000,000 Gemini 747s to fill that box up.
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Oh yes, the width, too, I know...
That's amazing about the scale issue...my God, 64 MILLION??!!
