amazing & architecture & random MAZ on 06 Feb 2008 06:22 am
Airport runway on pillars
This runway is located in Madeira, Portugal. There are 180 pillars, each 70m high, there’s also a parking garage below it.
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on 06 Feb 2008 at 8:59 pm 1.bs said …
isnt that a little much?
FIRST
on 06 Feb 2008 at 10:49 pm 2.Amatoc.com said …
@ bs-
No it isn’t too much. With a weight of 970,000lbs plus the velocity of the motion adding to the kinetic energy on landing. You need to have alot of support. Planes are heavy objects traveling at high speeds. This isn’t overkill by any means.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 3:54 am 3.Doug said …
whats shocking is that the space underneath is so badly used. You could have put the whole airport under there.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 6:06 am 4.Hizzoner said …
FAKE! Obviously a photoshop, and a very bad one at that. I am an expert at both photoshop and airport design, so I know.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 6:42 am 5.not fake said …
how is it fake google madeira airport u dumb cunt
on 07 Feb 2008 at 7:00 am 6.? said …
Im with you no. 5, and how is it a bad photoshop?? you’re a crappy expert
on 07 Feb 2008 at 8:26 am 7.Hizzoner is dumb said …
Lol @Hizzoner being retarded.
I love when cocky people come talking like they know more than they do then they get owned.
Good job not fake.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 11:12 am 8.Bob said …
glad i didn’t see this b4 i went there!
P.S. not fake : language !! - remember as soon as you let it loose you’ve lost it
on 07 Feb 2008 at 11:23 am 9.JulianeHH said …
Went there.. for pilots its one of the most difficult airports in the world. For passengers as well.. wow. there are heavy winds coming down the mountains..
on 07 Feb 2008 at 11:29 am 10.NO-BULL said …
Who just happens to be a expert on photoshop AND airport design anyway? YOU GO HIZZONER! Your an expert know-it-all too right?
on 07 Feb 2008 at 11:30 am 11.Sarcasm said …
Hizzoner, you made my day.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 11:54 am 12.hizzoner = dumbass said …
wow, he, she, whoever, is just stupid. Do some research into things before you think you’re 100% correct…
on 07 Feb 2008 at 12:16 pm 13.Lou said …
http://www.getalookatthis.com/2008/01/10/new-airport-runway-in-portugal-part-2/
on 07 Feb 2008 at 3:02 pm 14.gm said …
all those reply comments are fake….photoshopped for sure…
on 07 Feb 2008 at 3:10 pm 15.Reinier said …
I can definitely confirm it’s real, I grew up in Madeira, and me and my friends went under the runway when they hosted a fair there. They look even bigger when you’re close.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 3:21 pm 16.Jimbob said …
Suuuuurely Hizzoner is trolling with that response. Agree about the wasted space, a missed opportunity.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 4:15 pm 17.Captain D said …
post #4 is funny… what’s even more funny are the people who cannot detect sarcasm. He is just making a funny post to get the retards riled up.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 4:42 pm 18.Tim said …
I went to Madiera, around 1983, before the runway was extended. The winds were strong that day and the pilot had warned us it would be a tricky landing. Nearing the runway the pilot suddenly pulled up and we flew around the island again. On the second attempt, we got over the runway and “thump” the plane was dumped down hard to make full use of the short runway!
I survived.
The return flight took off with the minimum fuel allowed, and refueled in nearby Porto Santo which had a much longer runway.
At the time The plan to extend the runway was in place, but I have never been back, so I never knew until now if they built it.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 6:06 pm 19.lucas said …
4.Hizzoner said …
FAKE! Obviously a photoshop, and a very bad one at that. I am an expert at both photoshop and airport design, so I know.
Obviously, the sense of humor is nearly extinct.
Hey, I thought it was funny.
on 07 Feb 2008 at 11:54 pm 20.SanfranciscoIISacramento said …
I agree with lucas
hizzoner obviously posted to be funny or to get a rise out of you guys,and by seeing how most of you took it id say you all should take a deeeeeeeeep breath and maybe a nice walk OUTSIDE.
on 08 Feb 2008 at 1:27 am 21.will said …
4.Hizzoner said …
FAKE! Obviously a photoshop, and a very bad one at that. I am an expert at both photoshop and airport design, so I know.
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gb2 4chan
on 08 Feb 2008 at 4:25 am 22.bristol dad said …
Regardless of the post, please don’t respond with language like that, Not Fake, it’s childish, offensive and inflammatory. You wouldn’t talk to someone like that face to face…
on 08 Feb 2008 at 4:41 am 23.Ben said …
I’ve been there too, although luckily I didn’t have to park under the runway; would have loved to hear that noise though!
on 08 Feb 2008 at 6:38 am 24.Nice said …
Nice pic!! If it’s real, I’d like to go there.
on 08 Feb 2008 at 7:23 am 25.edje said …
http://www.madeira-club.de/scans/airport1.jpg
on 08 Feb 2008 at 7:46 am 26.Vmmessias said …
this is real, i am from portugal and i know is real, so don’t thing that is photshop…
and you can be a very smart and expert at both photoshop and airport design…but you don’t know!!!
on 08 Feb 2008 at 9:46 am 27.jared said …
the space below the runway can be used for hotels, shops, concerts, raves, parties, drinking whatever
looks cool below, the plane above, and the sea to your front ^_^
great place to hang out
on 08 Feb 2008 at 5:44 pm 28.Chet said …
About putting stuff below this… I don’t think, personally, I would want to be sitting somewhere in a hotel or airport, or anywhere, and hear the noise and vibrations of a plane landing on top of me. Not to mention the huge potential for disaster if a plane were to crash-land and dammage/destroy this structure. At least right now only some parked cars and some unlucky people going to/from those cars would be effected.
on 09 Feb 2008 at 6:42 am 29.Brendan said …
I’d live underneath a fake/ photshopped runway anyday……I’d enjoy the thrill of the risk, never knowing if the next plane to land will be the one that is going to crash through the fake/photoshopped runway and crush you to death.
on 09 Feb 2008 at 7:53 am 30.Lheckuo said …
Hey!
I am portuguese and it’s true! I have been there!
Before that extension there was an accident because the runway was too short. And because the airport is very near to the sea and the nearest town (Madeira is a small island), this was the only solution!
But maybe I’m just dumb and it’s just photoshop…
on 09 Feb 2008 at 8:07 am 31.silchan said …
Bristol Dad:
I would talk like that to someone’s face if they said something that retarded. Just because you don’t like the words Not Fake uses doesn’t mean you can project your holier than thou B.S. onto him/her. Don’t like “bad” language, don’t use it. Don’t tell me, or Not Fake, or anyone else to not use it.
By the way, I find it offensive, childish, and inflammatory that you can’t capitalize proper nouns like Bristol. I find it offensive, childish, and inflammatory that you attempt to tell others how to speak. I find it offensive, childish, and inflammatory that you can’t properly use punctuation.
I expect that since you have offended me, you will change how you type?
No?
My point is made.
on 11 Feb 2008 at 8:10 am 32.bristol dad said …
No, don’t think so silchan (silchan being your name should presumably need capitalising much as bristol does). Even in a morally relative world, 9 out of 10 people would see this as pretty clear: His language is offensive, he wouldn’t speak like that to someone face to face and if the rest of use don’t speak out, he’s going to keep doing it. Of course he does have the right of free speech, as do I.
on 11 Feb 2008 at 8:38 am 33.catsmiler said …
Silchan said:
” I expect that since you have offended me, you will change how you type?
No?
My point is made “.
Talk about a circular argument. The guy answers his own question, and then confirms it….He needs to return to the shallow end of the gene pool…
on 11 Feb 2008 at 1:33 pm 34.interestingname said …
The end of his argument might have been a little weak but Silchan had a good point.
Bristol Dad:
Stop trying to clean up the world!
Not everyone thinks it should be the way you do!
Kindly halt your lips from moving.
on 11 Feb 2008 at 3:17 pm 35.bristol dad said …
shall we take a vote?
on 11 Feb 2008 at 11:21 pm 36.doug said …
you guys are fags
on 13 Feb 2008 at 5:36 pm 37.craig said …
Hey asshole i built that airport, its not fake…
also, trolled.
on 14 Feb 2008 at 12:05 am 38.EC said …
This is a very ugly structure, and a shameful destruction of a coastline. I can’t believe that the convenience to the local inhabitants of having a BIG facility which allows BIG planes to land actually outweighs the loss.
on 15 Feb 2008 at 12:37 am 39.Rob said …
Hey look I am no expert in…..well anything to be honest.. Great pic.. but I figured the obvious thing to do s just look it up on the net? Yes??? No??? Maybe, perhaps? I mean seriously just Google it. Not that hard hey.. Who needs experts and photo shops…
on 15 Feb 2008 at 2:23 am 40.esperanzito said …
looks like another unnatural thing easily corrected but a rising sea level. enjoy it and say goodbye. apococalypse now please, but only in accordance with our Creator’s will. and pray that smooth sailing(literally) will be the transportation norm when the new earth is born.
on 15 Feb 2008 at 4:45 am 41.Hair Doktor said …
bRISTOL dAD’s indignation with nOT fAKE’s “childish, offensive and inflammatory” language is obviously a FAKE. This indignation was pHOTOsHOPPED into his post after the fact, and not a very good job of it either. I am an expert at pHOTOsHOP, psychology, and iNTERNET grammar, so I know.
on 15 Feb 2008 at 2:13 pm 42.Swacey said …
Hey guys,
I just wanted to say Hizzoner was my brother, and that he killed himself recently over the attacks launched against him on this website. He really was a photoshop and airport design expert, which I know is a strange combination but he marched to the beat of a different drummer. The tragic thing is he went to Portugal to confirm whether you guys were telling the truth, it mattered that much to him, and when he saw the runway, he pulled out a knife and sat down on it. You guys win. R.I.P Hizzoner.
on 08 Apr 2008 at 8:48 am 43.photoshop said …
Moral of the story: Learn Photoshop before you learn to fly
on 06 Sep 2008 at 3:14 am 44.knaschru said …
lol