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 [ Ссылка ]
Assistant Producer: Elsa Gouveia
Camera: Elton Cantoni
Editor: Dave Stevenson [ Ссылка ]

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: [ Ссылка ] - license details at [ Ссылка ]

🟥 MORE FROM TOM: [ Ссылка ]
(you can find contact details and social links there too)

📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: [ Ссылка ]
❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: [ Ссылка ] [ Ссылка ]
➕ TOM SCOTT PLUS: [ Ссылка ]
👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: [ Ссылка ]

свернуть