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The eight panels each look like a futuristic airplane, and work together, almost like a camera shutte to open or close the roof. [narrator] The eight petals almost the size of a city block, cantilever out 200 feet over an oval opening. Each pedal is attached to the stadium with two sets of tracks in parallel. The outside uplift rails are gripped with wheels, like a rollercoaster. Preventing the 450 ton petals from tipping. The inner track provides the power to move the petals back and forth with eight wheel driven systems called bogeys opening and closing like a giant eye. [Brendan] But it's an optical illusion In reality, the individual
petals move in a straight line
along their own tracks
petals move in a straight line
along their own tracks
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The eight panels
each look like
a futuristic airplane,
00:00:04.032 --> 00:00:09.238
and work together,
almost like a camera shutte
to open or close the roof.
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[narrator] The eight petals
almost the size
of a city block,
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cantilever out 200 feet
over an oval opening.
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Each pedal is attached
to the stadium
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with two sets
of tracks in parallel.
00:00:23.633 --> 00:00:27.598
The outside uplift rails
are gripped with wheels,
like a rollercoaster.
00:00:27.713 --> 00:00:30.958
Preventing the 450 ton
petals from tipping.
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The inner track
provides the power to move
the petals back and forth
00:00:36.873 --> 00:00:40.958
with eight wheel
driven systems called bogeys
00:00:40.096 --> 00:00:44.003
opening and closing
like a giant eye.
00:00:44.113 --> 00:00:46.998
[Brendan]
But it's an optical illusion
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In reality, the individual
petals move in a straight line
along their own tracks.
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Movie Summary
With access to all phases of design and a large cast of experts, some of the great failures of engineering history are uncovered.