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Raised Runway
Status: April Fool's Day joke
Technique of Fakery: Composite Images.
Date and Time Period: Undated. Possibly from the 1920s.; (1920-1939)
Themes: Humor, April Fool's Day, Planes
Technique of Fakery: Composite Images.
Date and Time Period: Undated. Possibly from the 1920s.; (1920-1939)
Themes: Humor, April Fool's Day, Planes
A Berlin newspaper ran this image as an April Fool's Day joke, claiming it showed a runway constructed over a "large German city." The paper described how passengers were ferried up and down to the runway in an elevator.
References:
Illustration of Plane Flying Over City, Corbis.com.
Illustration of Plane Flying Over City, Corbis.com.
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