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Funchal Airport, on the island of Madeira, was too short for modern commercial airliners: but there was nowhere to extend to. The solution is one of the greatest civil engineering projects of our time.
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The 1990 photo of the airport is by Peter Forster, "pizzodisevo 1937", and was posted to Flickr under a Creative Commons by-sa 2.0 license here: flickr.com/photos/31818720@N00/111945171 - license details at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Funchal Airport, on the island of Madeira, was too short for modern commercial airliners: but there was nowhere to extend to. The solution is one of the greatest civil engineering projects of our time.
Producer: Aitken Pearson firecrestindependent.com
Assistant Producer: Elsa Gouveia
Camera: Elton Cantoni
Editor: Dave Stevenson http://davestevenson.co.uk
The 1990 photo of the airport is by Peter Forster, "pizzodisevo 1937", and was posted to Flickr under a Creative Commons by-sa 2.0 license here: flickr.com/photos/31818720@N00/111945171 - license details at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
π₯ MORE FROM TOM: tomscott.com
(you can find contact details and social links there too)
π° WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: tomscott.com/newsletter
β LATERAL, free weekly podcast: lateralcast.com youtube.com/lateralcast
β TOM SCOTT PLUS: youtube.com/tomscottplus
π₯ THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: youtube.com/techdif
