Model to prove the concept

To convince my father (and myself) that what I am suggesting is actually possible. I made a physics model in Flash. This was surprisingly easy. I only used physics for games until now. The physics in games are never the same as in real life, which was the goal now.

You can see my first draft here. If you click on this link:
http://www.snoep.at/buildingdragons/drakenpoot2.swf you can see a moving version.
Sorry, I haven't found an option to embed flash-movies yet, so I'll do it like this.
If you click on the 'no skin' button and press it down you see the physics model.