runway extension

[bigblackmastiff]

A friend sent me this...thought i'd share...kind of neat.

below is the recently (2003) extended runway at funchal airport in <STRIKE>portugal</STRIKE> madeira. the original 1400m runway was notoriously short and, as a result, sometimes dangerous for landing planes. the runway extension won the outstanding structures award and rightly so: due to an obvious lack of land, engineers have supported the extension on 180 pillars, each 70m high. on the last photo you can see what seems to be a car park that now lives under the end of the runway.

 

[Dave.flying]