The Incredible Engineering Behind Japan's Floating Airport | Super Structures | Spark

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The Kansai International Airport is just that - and island built to provide the space for an airport - an engineering marvel. Forty-one aircraft can park at the immense terminal - the only man-made structure other than the Great Wall of China visible from space. The only problem is that this amazing airport is slowly sinking!
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  • @olubodunagbalaya8765
    @olubodunagbalaya87652 жыл бұрын

    The fact that it survived such a massive earthquake , Kudos to to the great engineers involved

  • @jennysaranac4454

    @jennysaranac4454

    2 жыл бұрын

    The question is not, HOW to build the terminal on a sinking man-made island, but WHY would you build without FIRST providing a solution to the sinking..

  • @simontay4851

    @simontay4851

    2 жыл бұрын

    Concrete piles.

  • @KingKaejiu

    @KingKaejiu

    Жыл бұрын

    Especially coming on 50 years ago? Look at us now piss arsing about with better cameras on phones.

  • @gbabe20111
    @gbabe20111 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for uploading this video i really enjoy it through and through. Although i had flew out of this airport once in the past, it’s amazing to see this piece of engineering work accomplishment but, it’s a shame, it will not be here for long as nature had a way of reclaiming its space. What a beautiful gem…

  • @robertdevos5478
    @robertdevos54785 ай бұрын

    I have landed 4 times on & started 4 times from Kansai International Airport for visiting beautiful Japan❤

  • @pollygonewrong8895
    @pollygonewrong88952 жыл бұрын

    I’m Canadian but live in Kobe, Japan. I work internationally. I use KIX very frequently and it’s one of the easiest and well organized airports in the world. The fact that it’s sinking is an issue, but the amount of money that flows through it daily ensures that there are always keeping a close watch on it and many engineers are on the case full-time. A few years back, there was a huge typhoon that hit the pacific side of Kansai and a huge ship had lost control and crashed into the bridge that goes to KIX, seriously damaging the bridge. An ENORMOUS crew worked 24 hours a day fixing the bridge. KIX was losing about 100 000 000 ¥ (about 1M US$) every hour due to it’s closure. It took them a little less than 3 days to completely fix the bridge. Funny enough, Kobe airport is also on a man-made island. So many times, I fly out from in a man-made island to land on another man-made island.

  • @Mobleymoon

    @Mobleymoon

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @mogogimokgethi4360

    @mogogimokgethi4360

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ololooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  • @minervamullick2535

    @minervamullick2535

    2 жыл бұрын

    I have flown in and out of KIX, and I find it to be an engineering marvel!

  • @berryandrew159

    @berryandrew159

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@minervamullick2535 Hello

  • @dassy0023

    @dassy0023

    2 жыл бұрын

    00₩)

  • @preciousreading1934
    @preciousreading19343 жыл бұрын

    Without knowing all these factors in 2001, I have once become a consumer of this Japanese ambitious engineering Marvell by landing for a connection flight. The over night delay staying compelled me to take the train rides back and forth in to the city and the airport. Also I relentlessly hung around the lobbies and duty free shops for several hours in the chilling cold and took off from there eventually for ever. I was all alone and this experience was killing me every moment to another moment . After these decades learned something about it only now for the first time watching this material my every second of frustrating stay time at that man made island The Kansai International Airport have become invaluable in my accounting. Well done to the engineers, the Japanese and airport maintenance workers. Keep up the good work always.

  • @jovenaldomingo1123

    @jovenaldomingo1123

    2 жыл бұрын

    I said it years ago I’ll say it again over again humans U don’t touch the oceans man made islands pushing full body water forward backwards around it it’s a bad idea 07 joe

  • @YungSteambuns

    @YungSteambuns

    2 жыл бұрын

    wtf are either one of you two saying, is this the work of google translate?

  • @MotoAtheist

    @MotoAtheist

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jovenaldomingo1123 LOL! The material used to fill the island came from the bottom of the ocean. The water will simply fill that area, the water level doesn't change or get pushed around, that's ridiculous.

  • @jovenaldomingo1123

    @jovenaldomingo1123

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MotoAtheist disagree man made island human took some space soo it does pushes body of water forward and backward it means unnatural to oceans nature’s way 07

  • @MotoAtheist

    @MotoAtheist

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jovenaldomingo1123 Nope, sorry, learn some physics. If you remove 500,000 tons of sand from one area to another area, the water level doesn't change at all, nothing has been added, just moved. Put a brick in your bathtub and fill it with water. Now, move the brick to a different location and nothing changes.

  • @rtjahyadi7868
    @rtjahyadi786814 күн бұрын

    Japan’s 🇯🇵 engineering is impeccable

  • @norcalpinoy9618
    @norcalpinoy96182 жыл бұрын

    I can't imagine myself piling up those large stones in cold water down there I would hurt my back. I would die of hypothermia. This is a marvelous architectural and engineering structure.

  • @arthurriaf8052
    @arthurriaf8052 Жыл бұрын

    I had the pleasure of flying into this airport within the first month of opening. I had to stay in the hotel several times overnight to catch connecting flights the next day a few time. The landing and takeoffs were shown on the video screens in the seatbacks so the views were spectacular! The convenance of staying on the airport grounds was fantastic. A great place to enter Japan and a wonderful engineering accomplishment for all involved. Art

  • @JasonB808
    @JasonB8084 жыл бұрын

    this is the airport I used on my previous trip to Japan. very easy to use. Heck I have a harder time finding where to go at local HNL than at KIX. my trip ended and I returned home just weeks before a powerful typhoon's storm surge flooded the original man made island. The storm surge also caused a oil tanker to crash and cause major damage to the auto/train bridge. Kansai is fully functional today. I plan on using it again for my next trip to japan.

  • @allegramisereri9462

    @allegramisereri9462

    Жыл бұрын

    Since when do *islands* float?

  • @saachiOne

    @saachiOne

    11 ай бұрын

    😊ii😊😊

  • @bertmc4442
    @bertmc44423 жыл бұрын

    I've been here in this airport and this is truly a beautiful architectural and Engineering structure.

  • @gilrodil7436

    @gilrodil7436

    3 жыл бұрын

    ⁿ8⁹

  • @mugumesolomon4698

    @mugumesolomon4698

    3 жыл бұрын

    Waw that's nice , am Solomon from Uganda , volunteering at Kiburara community hospital project ( KCH) project we humbly request you to send us volunteers and getting us Donor's thanks

  • @peanutbutterpaul7232

    @peanutbutterpaul7232

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow..you are super cool...can I be your friend⁉️

  • @imnotahippie22

    @imnotahippie22

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mugumesolomon4698 who is Solomon? Never heard of it. Or you. Then again i am a lazy over fed American who hits his head many times each day. This world isn't meant for people who are 6'9" aka 206cm..... It really sucks ☹️

  • @michaelchastain3082

    @michaelchastain3082

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gilrodil7436 Yyy op

  • @anamarievivero7774
    @anamarievivero77744 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for showing my Airport!! 😉 I do use Itami before Kansai Airport built! I am near in Nagoya but I love to travel using Kansai Airport. I love Kansai❣️

  • @pilotgrrl1

    @pilotgrrl1

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you are in Nagoya, wouldn't Chubu Centrair be closer?

  • @tavitamuelu8610
    @tavitamuelu86103 жыл бұрын

    My first time watching this and marveled at its existence. Thanks for sharing and all the credits to everyone concerned

  • @lordsingodwetrusted376

    @lordsingodwetrusted376

    3 жыл бұрын

    *I DOESN'T THINK THIS IS GOOD IDEA SO STUPID WHY DIDN'T BUILD OVER 3 MOUNTAIN THEY TOOK ROCK AND SAND INSTEAD DON'T IT BE BETTER THIS ARE CONSIDERED DESTROYED NATURALLY THAT'S THE REASON WHY SO MUCH STORMS TORNADO TODAY.*

  • @tae6658

    @tae6658

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lordsingodwetrusted376 Hello,I believe that before even the thought of building this amazing masterpiece,.., Japan is as we know it a country of extreme weather.. So, regardless of the demolition of 3 Mountains to fill up an artificial island in the middle of the ocean, did not make the climate less or more generous...!!!!???

  • @BushPilot
    @BushPilot3 жыл бұрын

    It rests upon more than a million support columns, which delve 20 metres into the sea and 20 metres into a muddy layer before being driven an additional 40 metres into the rock below. The fact that the muddy layer continues to settle at an irregular rate also had to be taken into account. A rather complex solution was required in order to address this problem. A series of special sensors are used to detect when the mud has settled to a point that exceeds the foreseen maximum tolerance of 10 mm. Each column is equipped with a calibration system, which employs the use of extremely powerful hydraulic jacks: whenever a column's position is offset, the system adjusts it and locks it in its new position. This phenomenon had a significant effect, in fact, during the initial stage: the island settled by 50 centimetres from 1992 to 1996.

  • @robertmillar2774

    @robertmillar2774

    Жыл бұрын

    Amazing 😮

  • @montwediontlametseemmanuel1664
    @montwediontlametseemmanuel16644 жыл бұрын

    i landed here. it was a lovely experience

  • @leeorr9071
    @leeorr90713 жыл бұрын

    I love Japan 🇯🇵 people very smart and friendly to talk too love them xx

  • @seltaeb3302

    @seltaeb3302

    3 жыл бұрын

    99.99999999999999..% of people in Japan are Japanese. Black, Muslim & White apart from tourists are hovering zero & zero blacks definitely. Japan amongst the big money countries are rare to be this way. Racist, hmmm.. yes but not outwardly so. It's a bit odd definitely since Japanese in most countries. I've never seen Japan take any refugees in.

  • @gedskitv
    @gedskitv2 жыл бұрын

    There is nothing like Japanese engineering!! Great jobs.

  • @desmondmcknight6796

    @desmondmcknight6796

    2 жыл бұрын

    ㅖㅖㅖ ㅣㅣ

  • @francoissuissae6217

    @francoissuissae6217

    2 жыл бұрын

    Russian & bilateral partnerships betweens the best engineers on either side of Asia, Europe & America. With construction & trades from all over the world.

  • @irfansiddiqui4089

    @irfansiddiqui4089

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@desmondmcknight6796 in

  • @1-2-bap78
    @1-2-bap784 жыл бұрын

    I traveled through Kansai AIrport about 5 times and it is my favorite airport to stop by!!! Beautiful Airport indeed :D

  • @Sabundy

    @Sabundy

    4 жыл бұрын

    I agree 👍🏻

  • @ronaldinan2619
    @ronaldinan26194 жыл бұрын

    Simply a superb architecture, marvelous engineering, ingenuity at its best, genius technology combined together. I'm praying that it will not sink as what they have feared. God bless the Kansai International Airport, the Japanese people and the nation of Japan!

  • @JohnSmith-xz5fb

    @JohnSmith-xz5fb

    4 жыл бұрын

    I agree with you totally, I was totally amazed watching what they have accomplished, hopefully it will just settle and stop sinking. #Pray

  • @futsuu

    @futsuu

    9 ай бұрын

    As a Japanese taxpayer whose primary airport is KIX... the flight from Fukuoka to Osaka Kansai International is shorter than the time it takes to get into the city from KIX. The airport's reputation among locals is that it is expensive, poorly engineered, too far away, has a poorly accessible second terminal and a scrubby mix of fast food offerings. 99% of people are happier to fly out of Itami Airport, the old airport, because it is closer to the city and more comfortable.

  • @cecilleditching9588
    @cecilleditching95883 жыл бұрын

    Great challenge with minds, great engineering and architecture & design comes to reality, a history in d making. Awesome!🙏

  • @jovenaldomingo1123

    @jovenaldomingo1123

    2 жыл бұрын

    I said it years ago I’ll say it again over again humans U don’t touch the oceans man made islands pushing full body water forward backwards around it it’s a bad idea 07 joe

  • @benjohncerezo
    @benjohncerezo3 жыл бұрын

    This is really an incredibly man-made island with an awesome wondrous airport !!! Splendid !!!

  • @robertmillar2774

    @robertmillar2774

    Жыл бұрын

    51:40 Homburg

  • @cobrasvt347
    @cobrasvt3474 жыл бұрын

    34:46. An enthusiastic employee who loves his job. Ya can see it all over his face 🤗

  • @augustinelopez1508
    @augustinelopez15084 жыл бұрын

    It is truly impressive and long to see with my own eyes. 😗😀✌

  • @pbice
    @pbice3 жыл бұрын

    44:58 "Scientists debate how much farther the island will sink, but some believe if it keeps sinking, a typhoon's wave will someday swamp the airport." It did happen in September 2018, Kansai airport has been flooded during Super Typhoon Jebi. Meanwhile, a cargo ship hit the bridge of the connecting road, this made Kansai airport shut down for a few days.

  • @firstordercommandergames2542

    @firstordercommandergames2542

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the update, I'm sure many of us are wondering how the marvel is doing 20 years later.

  • @SI-ln6tc

    @SI-ln6tc

    3 жыл бұрын

    They have to maintain it every few years.

  • @sharoncassell9358

    @sharoncassell9358

    11 ай бұрын

    I hope it continues to exist. Its a marvel.

  • @prevost8686

    @prevost8686

    Ай бұрын

    @@sharoncassell9358I would not call it a marvel. If it wasn’t sinking perhaps…

  • @junglebear7331
    @junglebear73313 жыл бұрын

    Wow, great documentary and engineering story! On the edge of my seat!!!

  • @klevarootstv4441
    @klevarootstv44414 жыл бұрын

    wow tumps up this is very inspiring.much love to the engineers and the hard working team.much love to the japaneses people.great mark in the world!!!!

  • @jomcclellan1847

    @jomcclellan1847

    3 жыл бұрын

    ""

  • @shatner99
    @shatner993 жыл бұрын

    Used to live in Kobe and Osaka. Very interesting airport.

  • @johnjanpopovic4813
    @johnjanpopovic48133 жыл бұрын

    admiration and respect

  • @Softail77us
    @Softail77us4 жыл бұрын

    I just checked my GPS and yep there's another island! I wonder how they built that one.

  • @ZedNinetySix_
    @ZedNinetySix_4 жыл бұрын

    I have been at this airport in-person back in 2008, Japan is always 20-30 years ahead of the world...

  • @dalesaylors9251

    @dalesaylors9251

    4 жыл бұрын

    ZedNinetySix you’re right!! Using reverse engineering from the USA.

  • @CBTheMechanic

    @CBTheMechanic

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dalesaylors9251 Japan can advance because they don't have to deal with losses through forced multiculturalism.

  • @derricklanders4479

    @derricklanders4479

    4 жыл бұрын

    @dark zeratul You really believe that?

  • @monzakhan4811

    @monzakhan4811

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's the British engineering

  • @shpresimleci2361

    @shpresimleci2361

    4 жыл бұрын

    Derrick Landers he doesn’t have to believe that , it is a fact that’s it. Japan is the most educated country in the world

  • @agussw8908
    @agussw89084 жыл бұрын

    Awesome Japanese engineering. I was from this airport last year, and still have good condition.

  • @shamarcopes7158

    @shamarcopes7158

    3 жыл бұрын

    You in uiknkkoi i I I no in iiikki my koi in HMO n nun big h

  • @scottgeorge4268

    @scottgeorge4268

    3 жыл бұрын

    Arup engineering? Terminal designed by international architects?

  • @kenoliver8913

    @kenoliver8913

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@scottgeorge4268 These days there is not a massive public project in the world that is not designed by international firms using large and very multinational teams. Including in the US and China by the way.

  • @scottgeorge4268

    @scottgeorge4268

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kenoliver8913 My comments concerned the above ref to 'awesome Japanese engineering'.

  • @blackking7759
    @blackking77594 жыл бұрын

    Great job to everyone who's was involved in that masterpiece of art

  • @jovenaldomingo1123

    @jovenaldomingo1123

    2 жыл бұрын

    I said it years ago I’ll say it again over again humans U don’t touch the oceans man made islands pushing full body water forward backwards around it it’s a bad idea 07 joe

  • @MotoAtheist

    @MotoAtheist

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jovenaldomingo1123 LOL! The material used to fill the island came from the bottom of the ocean. The water will simply fill that area, the water level doesn't change or get pushed around, that's ridiculous.

  • @aandwdabest
    @aandwdabest7 ай бұрын

    A colossal amount of money, manpower, equipment went into this project, creating a blueprint for future attempts (looking at you, Hong Kong Airport 😊). This is beyond amazing and mesmerizing.

  • @user-zu4pe1nn2d
    @user-zu4pe1nn2d2 жыл бұрын

    The only problem is that this amazing airport is slowly sinking!

  • @BroccoliHead7

    @BroccoliHead7

    2 жыл бұрын

    Then put more water under it

  • @user-zu4pe1nn2d

    @user-zu4pe1nn2d

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@BroccoliHead7 you mean more dirt doctor 😎🌊svg

  • @galaxysurfer1122

    @galaxysurfer1122

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@user-zu4pe1nn2d no, it's a floating building apparently, more water is needed... or put more air into the basements lol

  • @claudiozupancich69

    @claudiozupancich69

    2 жыл бұрын

    VT ...

  • @Mobleymoon

    @Mobleymoon

    2 жыл бұрын

    Its working while its here.

  • @callmemaybe3114
    @callmemaybe31144 жыл бұрын

    Amazing! A new subscriber here from 🇵🇭

  • @salaskusina

    @salaskusina

    3 жыл бұрын

    call na ba ako pre? haha

  • @keziahmontefalco836

    @keziahmontefalco836

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@salaskusina gaguee HAHAHAHA

  • @sarahw9775
    @sarahw97753 жыл бұрын

    it's......incredible!!

  • @bulbulahmed9723
    @bulbulahmed97233 жыл бұрын

    It's really a great masterpiece on scientific innovation. I had visited it .

  • @davidcross701

    @davidcross701

    3 жыл бұрын

    Engineering you idiot

  • @vickysingson3802

    @vickysingson3802

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@davidcross701 it takes scientific innovation before engineering it.

  • @jadrianlane

    @jadrianlane

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@davidcross701 jokoouiyuyUi8isrf

  • @xkiyori
    @xkiyori3 жыл бұрын

    45:00 The typhoon that happened in 2018 didn't sink but it did flood the Kansai airport and caused one of the ships to hit and damage the connecting bridge, causing people to get stuck in the airport for 5 days.

  • @jrmyl

    @jrmyl

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was stuck there for 5 days. I was working for ANA at the time and had flown in the day prior. Was scheduled to do a cargo flight out that night. Didn't get off the island until Friday. Had to take the high speed ferry over to Kobe airport. Quite the experience.

  • @ninkinankofangbondi3181
    @ninkinankofangbondi31814 жыл бұрын

    Mankind is indeed gifted. The creator of the human brains 🧠 is indeed worthy of worship.

  • @iwrotethis4712

    @iwrotethis4712

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nah!!

  • @brentlysams3966

    @brentlysams3966

    4 жыл бұрын

    very well said

  • @432buch8

    @432buch8

    2 жыл бұрын

    Worship God who created everything

  • @karlossargeant3872
    @karlossargeant38724 жыл бұрын

    I Love this Video on Kansai International Airport is Awesome!!!!

  • @matteagles2363
    @matteagles23633 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful Kansai Airport is awesome 👍

  • @StevenCampbell1955
    @StevenCampbell19553 жыл бұрын

    The people who built this marvellous structure should be honoured throughout history.

  • @josesmicheal

    @josesmicheal

    3 жыл бұрын

    Right

  • @camovecmin4968
    @camovecmin49683 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad that I've experienced arriving and departing from this airport back in December 2019 :)

  • @HulkSith89

    @HulkSith89

    3 жыл бұрын

    Have they begun work at all on a 2nd terminal,runway, island. This video and how this airport came to be is very interesting.

  • @dahebert82208

    @dahebert82208

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@HulkSith89 yes. A second island, terminal, and runway were built in 2007.

  • @franciskundukulam821
    @franciskundukulam8214 жыл бұрын

    Great documentary...mankind’s achievement...

  • @rayurbiztondo7151
    @rayurbiztondo71513 жыл бұрын

    Very impressive! Advance technology makes the difference..🇨🇦🇯🇵

  • @pabloznotti3867
    @pabloznotti38674 жыл бұрын

    They flattened three mountains to provide the fill for this project. Surely they could have done that to create enough flat land for an airport on more solid dry land.

  • @00ninja00

    @00ninja00

    4 жыл бұрын

    pablo znotti exactly what I was thinking hahaha

  • @asyd2905

    @asyd2905

    3 жыл бұрын

    The created an island airport because it was the only safe option. The area was very populated, so they couldn’t expand Narita Airport. The video explained there was so much danger with schools and homes so close to the old airport. Also so much noise pollution.

  • @brentlysams3966
    @brentlysams39664 жыл бұрын

    OMG 25yrs before i watched and heard this kansai airport (sept 2019) A true remarkable airport island made on the 21st century! How far and advanced japan can do since world war 2! A true japanase engr that will last the end of time! Bravo Bravo Kansai Airport 25 years of existent 💪😍 🇯🇵

  • @southerncross86
    @southerncross863 жыл бұрын

    Did not knew about this marvel of engineering. AMAZING

  • @tae6658

    @tae6658

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well you did not know about it until when...??? Lol (better isn't it...?)

  • @tracyjohnson2992
    @tracyjohnson299211 ай бұрын

    I have to take my hats off to the designer of the terminal building that was absolute genius a floating airport building and the damage around the city after the earth quake and the zero damage to the terminal building that was nothing short of amazing. the legacy will be for the airport is the superb engineering and designing marvel that this airport is and how successful it is that it needs another runway speaks for itself. May i suggest something if they say it will only sink 19 ft you go to twice that or three times that so as eventually the subsidence will not be as noticeable. the floating terminal was genius for sure and absolutely no damage to the airport i still cannot get my head around that. Great job you should feel proud walking through the building it is a great engineering feet well done to all love the colours by the way very Japanese. I love it.

  • @JericDacara
    @JericDacara3 жыл бұрын

    I've been to the airport several times already and its stunning no words can describe. All credits goes to google earth 3d.

  • @stupetersen1963

    @stupetersen1963

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ya

  • @frankcooke1692
    @frankcooke16924 жыл бұрын

    Anything can be seen from space if you zoom in enough

  • @bartleta11

    @bartleta11

    2 жыл бұрын

    Especially most airports lol

  • @DevonWildZillaTeschJr

    @DevonWildZillaTeschJr

    2 жыл бұрын

    Four-lane highways can be easily seen from space

  • @peaceofmind5515
    @peaceofmind55153 жыл бұрын

    Just amazinggggg....

  • @michaelclennan8425
    @michaelclennan84252 жыл бұрын

    When human beings work together, it is truly amazing. Getting us to work 😇together is rare art and skill. The highest.

  • @andredeketele5399

    @andredeketele5399

    2 жыл бұрын

    weirdo, that airport costs 20B $ and it's friggin sinking!

  • @JDAbelRN

    @JDAbelRN

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@andredeketele5399 they'll solve the problem, Japanese are best engineers and designers in the world.

  • @aligator7181
    @aligator71812 жыл бұрын

    You did a fantastic job chronicling this incredible feat of engineering and construction.

  • @dopeytripod

    @dopeytripod

    2 жыл бұрын

    yea, no recognition for the actual makers of the airport just the broadcaster

  • @simontay4851

    @simontay4851

    2 жыл бұрын

    except that the narrator can't be bothered to pronounce international properly. There is a T. InTernational, not fking inner.

  • @aligator7181

    @aligator7181

    2 жыл бұрын

    Better than silence

  • @eurosensazion
    @eurosensazion4 жыл бұрын

    Saw this doc like in late 90s when a little kid.

  • @johannesmohner8695

    @johannesmohner8695

    3 жыл бұрын

    And now is it reality ??

  • @eurosensazion

    @eurosensazion

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johannesmohner8695 These days who knows whats real or not. Maybe its still a childhood memory still lol

  • @johannesmohner8695

    @johannesmohner8695

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@eurosensazion yes so true

  • @terrylongmore4652

    @terrylongmore4652

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@eurosensazion m?mmjmmmjmmj?

  • @owl1873
    @owl18732 жыл бұрын

    This is good content. Love engineering. 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @lamboman2
    @lamboman23 жыл бұрын

    That’s awesome; I used a Torus to design the greenhouse of the Fisker Karma as it was the only shape that preserved Henrik’s styling while allowing the windows to roll down.

  • @tae6658

    @tae6658

    3 жыл бұрын

    Funny 🤣😁😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣... It is an amazing job only in Japan... This country is always ahead of time and does it with ease and elegance... Bravo to you Japan...!!!

  • @Sabundy
    @Sabundy4 жыл бұрын

    I remember when I first landed at Osaka/Kansai airport..... I didnt know it was built on an island so when we first began the landing it just looked like we were going to land in the sea until suddenly the runway jist appears

  • @davecrupel2817

    @davecrupel2817

    3 жыл бұрын

    THAT must have been an incredible realization! Both terrifying and wonderous!

  • @Sabundy

    @Sabundy

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@davecrupel2817 pretty much lol. It's a unique airport to land at that's for sure.

  • @bannedone3ice138

    @bannedone3ice138

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mali International airport is the same in Maldives. Built on an island separately as well. Right next to Mali city which itself is an island 🏝. So you land at the airport and then take a boat to cross over to the Capital city.

  • @boohickman2470

    @boohickman2470

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @benjaminvictor1443

    @benjaminvictor1443

    2 жыл бұрын

    Scary

  • @TheFreshSpam
    @TheFreshSpam3 жыл бұрын

    Makes me proud to hear that British Steel is the skeleton of the building. Two great engineering nations involved in a truly groundbreaking project of its time

  • @poochogenius
    @poochogenius4 жыл бұрын

    The amazing genius Japanese people. I have so much respect for them, the best end amazing technology comes from Japan.

  • @christosutit6187

    @christosutit6187

    3 жыл бұрын

    What amazing copycats they are!! Without the US they would have nothing to copy from.

  • @dr.woozie7500

    @dr.woozie7500

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@christosutit6187 Ok so Sony, Toshiba, Nintendo, Toyota, Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki are all copycats???

  • @dennis.teevee

    @dennis.teevee

    2 жыл бұрын

    umm it's the chysneeze who are the copy cats 😨

  • @JDAbelRN

    @JDAbelRN

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@christosutit6187 you are thinking of the Chinese that steal our computer and military engineering from USA. Japan learned about the quality control concepts from USA, then engineered and copy our old ideas about inspiration and big ideas we use to have from the 1900s until USA landed on the moon. Remember, the Japanese engineered and invented bullet trains in the early 1960s and built quality efficient automobiles which the whole world tried to copy without success. If Japan didn't start building automobiles plants all over the US, we would still be building Chevy and Fords.

  • @prevost8686

    @prevost8686

    Ай бұрын

    ⁠yeah they are. Not much of anything that they build is original. After WW2 they became excellent at taking designs that the United States gave them and build them efficiently and with high quality. Yamaha outboard company copied (and improved quality control) of Evinrude designs so closely that they were sued for millions over it. Toyota’s first inline six which later became famous in the Landcruiser was a copy of GM’s old six cylinder which the American Allies gave them after WW2. Many of Toyota’s 80s-90s four cylinder engines were designed heavily from what VW was already producing. I’m not taking anything away from the attention to detail and quality that the Japanese are known for but they’ve never been innovators. They take existing designs and technologies and produce it efficiently and with great attention to quality.

  • @danielitek3520
    @danielitek35202 жыл бұрын

    What an engineering masterpiece. Kudos to the engineers and everyone that made this possible 🇳🇬

  • @freetongue7357
    @freetongue73574 жыл бұрын

    Japanese, a nation of accuracy, perseverance and hard work..............

  • @Maupavian

    @Maupavian

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also, home of the Asian Holocaust and millions dead due to war crimes.

  • @addisketema4846
    @addisketema48463 жыл бұрын

    Amazing Airport big Enginering bulding Constraction... sparks thankyou.

  • @Simulation101YT
    @Simulation101YT3 жыл бұрын

    Architecture design trends in Japan In 1980: Cool round modern buildings. Architectur design trend in UK in 1980: *Grey concrete slab buildings*

  • @cristinaalberto7106
    @cristinaalberto71064 жыл бұрын

    A great manifestation of capabilities of the human brains could possibly do...a marvelous job..a wonderful landmark...hope someday ill have a chance to land on it and witness with my very own eyes.tnks sparks.here.fr d pearl of the orient..philippines.

  • @cbdoil4082
    @cbdoil40823 жыл бұрын

    At one foot per year. And seventeen feet left. (As of the time this was filmed) then it should have been under water by now? Would love to see the updated documentary. Has there been stop gaps done? Did the rate of compaction slow? If the walls were deep into the sea floor, would an earthquake help with compaction? Also, if compaction is not the issue? Where is the fill going?

  • @kael1205
    @kael12054 жыл бұрын

    Great documentary 💜

  • @ctgdriver

    @ctgdriver

    4 жыл бұрын

    Airplane

  • @c8Lorraine1
    @c8Lorraine13 жыл бұрын

    I lived in the Kansai region during the years they built the island. I returned home before the airport was completed so missed out seeing it. I remember there was a lot of concern about sinking island.

  • @zawzawaung6071
    @zawzawaung60713 жыл бұрын

    So greatest airport. Respect all engineers.

  • @chrissthrlnd
    @chrissthrlnd2 жыл бұрын

    "To save money, they rejected the predictions of deeper sinking"

  • @kaberus7565
    @kaberus75654 жыл бұрын

    I remember watching this as a kid! I was obsessed with Kansai haha

  • @indranimaharaj507
    @indranimaharaj5072 жыл бұрын

    When Kansai was built in 1987, it used to look more like Nagoya's floating airport Chubu Centrair because Kansai had only one runway when it was built and Chubu has one runway. Then Kansai had expanded and now has two runways like we know today of Kansai airport.

  • @aandwdabest

    @aandwdabest

    7 ай бұрын

    Jesus Christ, they built it 36 years ago. That’s insane.

  • @Heavens_Man_Date
    @Heavens_Man_Date11 ай бұрын

    This is one of the best ideas I've seen for future sustainability.

  • @charlestravis9798
    @charlestravis97982 жыл бұрын

    Don’t show this to Rep Hank Johnson, he’ll think it’ll “tip over” like he thought the island of Guam would if it had too many sailors on it!

  • @Dbrockjohnson

    @Dbrockjohnson

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bahahahhahahahhah! I spit out my Pabst blue ribbon!

  • @HappyfoxBiz

    @HappyfoxBiz

    2 жыл бұрын

    don't worry, they accounted for stupid congressmen and invested in a plumbob that detects American congressmen so that it can tilt every time Hank Johnson walks by

  • @donwat91

    @donwat91

    2 жыл бұрын

    Fffffffdddfddfdd

  • @carlojavier6585

    @carlojavier6585

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Dbrockjohnson Bjj8p1p2p00

  • @tixximmi1

    @tixximmi1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Dbrockjohnson I wouldn't need that post to spit out a Pabst.

  • @2von1
    @2von14 жыл бұрын

    How about the Tokoname Airport, it is also in the Middle of the sea in Aichi Prefecture

  • @carloslavado473

    @carloslavado473

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ppp

  • @telloarevalo7341
    @telloarevalo73413 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!!

  • @fa300zxtt
    @fa300zxtt4 жыл бұрын

    My goodness, what a piece of engineering.

  • @nickjohnson811
    @nickjohnson8113 жыл бұрын

    When the Kansai project was first proposed, an actual floating airport was considered, but rejected for this landfill approach. Given the enormous amount of fill and stabilization required, and the greater than expected sinking, I wonder how the economics of a floating airport would have compared to this project.

  • @PeterWTaylor

    @PeterWTaylor

    3 жыл бұрын

    Much better idea. I'm an Architect with a lifetime of experience in major infrastructure projects and I've learned its better to avoid a problem than solve it.

  • @nickjohnson811

    @nickjohnson811

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@PeterWTaylor Interesting that they didn't re-consider that approach for the phase 2 expansion. Apparently they're having the same sinking problem there.

  • @rabidbeaver3250

    @rabidbeaver3250

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Peter Taylor ok, boomer.

  • @garrymeyer7161

    @garrymeyer7161

    Жыл бұрын

    Dollars

  • @UrMomGoes2College
    @UrMomGoes2College3 жыл бұрын

    If any man could build it, it would be the Japanese. Their culture of attention to detail has been what has made them so successful and experts in engineering and architecture.

  • @mwanafalsafa3613

    @mwanafalsafa3613

    3 жыл бұрын

    How about the Germans?

  • @Hispandinavian
    @Hispandinavian3 жыл бұрын

    I'm planning my first ever visit to Japan. Entering via Tokyo is a given but I plan to leave via the Osaka airport. Just seeing this wonder of engineering and construction on the way out would be a treat. Imagine that riding the train off the coast of Japan.

  • @DeepakTiwariKishore

    @DeepakTiwariKishore

    11 ай бұрын

    उ चम 5.

  • @DeepakTiwariKishore

    @DeepakTiwariKishore

    11 ай бұрын

    5.t

  • @DeepakTiwariKishore

    @DeepakTiwariKishore

    11 ай бұрын

    Tc t. T

  • @DeepakTiwariKishore

    @DeepakTiwariKishore

    11 ай бұрын

    Tf. T5t.

  • @DeepakTiwariKishore

    @DeepakTiwariKishore

    11 ай бұрын

    T tt c 5c t. T c

  • @albertplumer
    @albertplumer3 жыл бұрын

    Immense barge like float structure or positive floating anchored with a wave reducing perimeter might be a thought.

  • @jovenaldomingo1123

    @jovenaldomingo1123

    2 жыл бұрын

    I said it years ago I’ll say it again over again humans U don’t touch the oceans man made islands pushing full body water forward backwards around it it’s a bad idea 07 joe

  • @JesusTorres-qr1gz
    @JesusTorres-qr1gz3 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding and impressive work of art and engineering, congratulations to each and everyone that one way or another made it possible to get the job done and share it with us, Most kind of you guys, from Puerto Rico Jesús Torres.

  • @C00LX100

    @C00LX100

    2 жыл бұрын

    how it is literally sinking into the sea???

  • @alexandercle
    @alexandercle3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you to all the people who had builded the airport, continue to maintain it, and provide this video. It is beyond word that could express to fully appreciate and respect the incredible will and determination of all these people. altc

  • @valhalla-tupiniquim
    @valhalla-tupiniquim4 жыл бұрын

    Very good lessons about engineering.

  • @godisgood789
    @godisgood7892 жыл бұрын

    Amazing Engineering! Very impressed by the problem solving solutions

  • @shawndouglass2939
    @shawndouglass29393 жыл бұрын

    This is incredible😀

  • @davidarundel6187
    @davidarundel61872 жыл бұрын

    I can remember seeing the construction of this Airport - starting with the piles that were placed, in an effort to avert its apparent willingness to subside beneath the waves. The challenge now, will be to stop it from sinking & to raise it, to cope with rising sea levels.

  • @gusgone4527

    @gusgone4527

    2 жыл бұрын

    Or falling sea levels. Depending on the tectonic plate shift.

  • @bertiecampbell1498

    @bertiecampbell1498

    2 жыл бұрын

    Dee

  • @nononsense5182
    @nononsense5182 Жыл бұрын

    The engineering is top tier...

  • @drstevemarson
    @drstevemarson3 жыл бұрын

    WOW! What a great video.

  • @raymondj8768

    @raymondj8768

    3 жыл бұрын

    look at the 3 gorges dam thats a mind blower also .

  • @nageyebelieday7158
    @nageyebelieday71583 жыл бұрын

    Marvelous indeed.

  • @emmanuelangeles4948
    @emmanuelangeles49483 жыл бұрын

    saw this vid when i was a kid. when my father playing bon jovi on our aiwa made in japan..

  • @truthunfolded1300

    @truthunfolded1300

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂😂

  • @hamidbenabbou6886
    @hamidbenabbou68863 жыл бұрын

    So great people who make so great job !

  • @kelwong4802
    @kelwong48022 жыл бұрын

    I'll repeat watching it once again and again. Because it is a very beautiful stoey.

  • @vanlifecreations5729
    @vanlifecreations57293 жыл бұрын

    And that enemy is GODZILLA!!

  • @NikanDragosysSerpenDra

    @NikanDragosysSerpenDra

    2 жыл бұрын

    NO.... MANTA, or MetalSeaDu'ramon

  • @ussr865

    @ussr865

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hell yeah 😂

  • @asyd2905
    @asyd29053 жыл бұрын

    Mid-2019, I was at Kansai International Airport with my sister waiting for our flight. An earthquake hit and we barely felt it. No one panicked.

  • @wesleyatkinson236

    @wesleyatkinson236

    3 жыл бұрын

    Inp9

  • @adolfoeguilos2854

    @adolfoeguilos2854

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow brilliant idea.

  • @airportoffers3070
    @airportoffers30704 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Spark, another great video!

  • @derekaduncan
    @derekaduncan3 жыл бұрын

    Wow, totaling amazing...man can do whatever humans imagine.

  • @timothygeiger437

    @timothygeiger437

    3 жыл бұрын

    To an extent, & need I say alot of money!! There are limits as to what man can do, & some day it will become very apparent!! I think it was a great feat to build the airport, & other things that are built around the world. What I'm saying is man does have limits, & some day God will make that very clear!

  • @verlonbowden911
    @verlonbowden9114 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your video I really enjoyed watching it. That was a awesome job the Japanese people did on that Airport they are very good construction builders. God Bless

  • @tylerkinley268
    @tylerkinley2683 жыл бұрын

    I remember seeing this on tv when I was younger and even then I thought 'this is hardly a long term solution'.

  • @sabrinakegley3468
    @sabrinakegley346810 ай бұрын

    Amazing craftsmanship I hope it works out.

  • @davy1458
    @davy14582 жыл бұрын

    Good job japan!!! This is very impressive!!

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