An abundant runway of an international airport can be as long as 5 Kms and as wide as 60 meters... If a country road is 6 meters wide then a runway takes away as much land from nature as 10 x 5 = 50 Kms of country roads... A major airport can have 2 - 4 such runways (up to 200 Kms of country roads) plus the immense apron that is also covered by concrete or asphalt... Not that environmentally friendly...
However if you could let trees grow nearly horizontally so that their trunks compose a strong shell structure of a length of 5 Kms then aircraft should be able to take off and to land on them... Meanwhile the runway was a living part of nature and not an artificial desert again...
And how elegant and majestic it was if The Boeing Company didn't only produce aircraft but it also built such green airports and living runways and aprons, respectively...
Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team
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