Some interesting 'maximum' lengths of runway in the UK, how about this one in the Maldives it was three miles long in 1960, unfortunately the island is only 1.25 miles long, the pilot 'landed' his Hastings in the sea as many eye witnesses have recorded that there was a refraction of the runway at sea!
Read about it on
http://splashdown2.tripod.com and for photos:
http://community.webshots.com/user/hastingsgan