LaGuardia Airport is the subject of “ Extreme Airport Engineering,” premiering on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 9 p.m. “Extreme Airport Engineering” will debut on NOVA, PBS’s award-winning ...
What “Extreme Airport Engineering” examines is a kind of magic act, a reverse version of the old tablecloth trick—sliding a new airport under the old, without upsetting the wine glasses.
It takes 72,000 tons of steel and almost 600,000 tons of concrete to construct this engineering marvel, and the team has to battle extreme weather, complex geology, and massive machines.
A slow green train from southwest China's Yunnan to Guizhou has not only facilitated travel for residents but also helped farmers and small business people with bulky commodities transport to bazaars ...