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April 29, 2010
Amazing tour of the 1977 Tenerife Airport disaster
Peter Olsen is at it again. We recently showed you the neat 3D Disney Monorail that he created, and now he's built a 3D animated tour of the 1977 Tenerife Airport disaster.
The tour is very impressive, and it covers the tragic events in great detail. He shows flight paths leading up to both planes arriving at Tenerife, and then 3D animations of the mistakes that led to the disaster.
This tour is an excellent example of how Google Earth can be used for educational purposes. You get the geographical reference of the planes arriving at the airport, information windows explaining what is occurring, and 3D models being moved around the airport to demonstrate the sequence of events.
You can download the tour KMZ file
or read more about it in the 3D Warehouse. Nice work Peter!
Posted by mickmel at April 29, 2010 8:33 AM
Comments
Posted by: Marquies at April 29, 2010 11:05 AM
Almost all images in the tour are question marks instead of images... Something looks broken.
Posted by: Joris at April 29, 2010 11:30 AM
This is a great 3D animation of one of the most horrifying aviation disaster.
Accurate and well done. Nice work.
Posted by: Kormyer at April 29, 2010 5:31 PM
amazing example. id love to be able to do that!
Posted by: Alberto at April 30, 2010 3:15 AM
These has been a great labour, you must be awarded
Posted by: alex peñaloza at May 1, 2010 10:33 PM
Thanks for narrating your experience. It could be very helpful for managing & planning of tour in future. Thanks for nice information
Posted by: Hank Freid at May 31, 2010 2:55 AM
Awesome work Peter. The tension was killing me. When the jet started for take off the feeling was terrible. I never expected to experience such feelings while looking at google earth. I would love to see a tutorial on how to achieve the object animations.
Posted by: Job Wallis at May 31, 2010 8:43 PM
The tour is very impressive, and it covers the tragic events in great detail. He shows flight paths leading up to both planes arriving at Tenerife, and then 3D animations of the mistakes that led to the disaster..........
Posted by: Taxi To Heathrow Airport at December 16, 2010 1:26 AM
3D animation is great. It can help in giving us useful information.
Posted by: Airport Lounges at March 24, 2011 1:44 AM
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Great job. Did you know that you can create such tours with the Snoovel Tourdirector? Not easy to use, but much easier than Google Earth.