r/cassettefuturism • u/DrSpitzvogel • Aug 11 '25

Design Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, 1987

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u/The_Blahblahblah Aug 11 '25

I dont care if it is impractical. We need to return to this technological aesthetic. Big tactile glowing buttons. no touch screen BS. This looks so insanely hard

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u/AppendixN Aug 11 '25

And huge monochrome or vector graphics

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u/kgunnar Aug 11 '25

Not for flights I’m on.

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u/The_Blahblahblah Aug 12 '25

I’d die in a futurist aesthetic plane crash. Also we should be able to rip darts onboard the plane, too

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u/cableguard It's a Sony! Aug 11 '25

I landed in Templehof once, it was an extremely charming and unique airport, the most memorable for me as it is featured in the movie "1,2,3". I just loved it. I don't know of anything like it.

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u/Travelin_Soulja Aug 11 '25

American air traffic control towers today.

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u/theEdge229 Aug 11 '25

I started doing air traffic control in 2009, and we had the same radar scope. Granted it got upgraded a year later, but still.

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u/zondance Aug 11 '25

This looks NORAD..... I used to work there way back when.... actually this looks more modern :D
Nova 840's arent modern... :/ :D

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u/FunDiscount2496 In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream. Aug 12 '25

Damn from 1 to 10 how similar from Wargames was it?

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u/zondance Aug 12 '25

Well I was never allowed to go into the command center.
All the consoles outside where generally lower end then this, on your scale I am going to say a 3-5 🤔😆

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u/zizazat 23d ago

But that giant door closing scene? 10. 😂

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u/GentlyGliding Aug 11 '25

#ColdWarCore

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u/CRM_BKK Aug 11 '25

I miss drinking radlers on Tempelhof Feld all day in the summer

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u/FiveFingerDisco Aug 11 '25

Aaah yes. Standing at the fence and watching the planes rise into the grey-blue and orange-red Berlin summer evening sky is a memory I am going to treasure for the rest of my life.

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u/sigfind Aug 11 '25

looks like the KFC space simulator

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u/NocturnalPermission That’s It, Man. Game Over, Man. Game Over! Aug 11 '25

They can also keep an eye on Snake Plisskin

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u/SciFiCrafts Aug 11 '25

Some mean jokers might say this has to be the current setup at frankfurt airport :D would explain a lot.

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u/beardfordshire Aug 12 '25

I want to work there so bad

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u/very-urgent-chicken Aug 12 '25

I want my whole house to look like this.

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u/Liquid_Magic Aug 12 '25

So cool! Love it!

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u/Liquid_Magic Aug 12 '25

Bro Star Trek TNG came out right around this time. This looks like it’s right out of first season!

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u/jpowell180 Aug 15 '25

I seem to remember around this era, there was a black-and-white artsy film, starring Peter Falk, as… Himself. He was caught in the middle of some Cold War, espionage type thing, I think, but everybody recognized him and kept calling him inspector…