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 bysa 2.0 license here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/3181872... license details at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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