For the aeroplane loonies

A 747 landing at the old Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong.



(shamelessly nicked from a post on another group)

Fond memories of landing there!

 

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Me too. And of waiting in Kowloon Tong railway station of a morning,
watching them banking for the approach. Eek.

 

Top of the multi story car park had a good view.

Ali

 

Excellent.[/QUOTE]

Was it? Perhaps you'd care to share the reasons, as for the life of me
I can't see anything odd about it. Perfectly normal landing at the
old[1] airport.

[1] ISTR it's been replaced with a new one in the ex[2] 'New
Territories' as of a few years ago now.
[2] Well I presume they don't call it that anymore.
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Yes, but I've never landed there, and while I've heard of the fairly
testing approach to the old runway, I've never seen a film of it.

 

Yes, but I've never landed there, and while I've heard of the fairly
testing approach to the old runway, I've never seen a film of it.[/QUOTE]

OIC. Easily amused sometimes, aren't you?

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I've flown a Nimrod simulater into Kai Tak many years ago. You aimed at a
big red circle on one of the high rise buildings until you started to pick
up the localiser beam and then did about a sixty degree turn onto the
centerline. High ground and the Chinese border made the most "interesting"
approach I can think of.

 

Was it? Perhaps you'd care to share the reasons, as for the life of me
I can't see anything odd about it. Perfectly normal landing at the
old[1] airport.

[1] ISTR it's been replaced with a new one in the ex[2] 'New
Territories' as of a few years ago now.
[2] Well I presume they don't call it that anymore.
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Chep Lak Kok, or summat. On an island, man made.

Ali

 

I remember flying into there on a Dragon Air connection from Taipei at the
arse end of a typhoon.
Two aborted landings, they got it down on the third.
There was the fusealge of another DA (I think) plane that had crashed a
couple of days before on the perimeter of the other runway, which was a
little disconcerting.
It was a superb approach when the weather was nice !

 

AONTL.

My fav, though, was when Concorde landed there in '84, IIRC.

 

You weren't at St Georges where you, by any chance?

 

There are other videos from the same person showing a take off landwards
(!) in the rain as well as two cockpit shots on the last day of service
- one at night which is very interesting. The musical accompaniment is a
little corny but a bit poignant - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye and The
Sweetest Thing by U2. In a way they were losing a bit of Hong Kong life
so I guess they wanted to say goodbye.

 

OIC. Easily amused sometimes, aren't you?[/QUOTE]

Fairly, when it comes to aeroplanes, yes.

 

How on earth did they manage that?

Must have blown the roof off every building under the approach path.

 

The island itself is Lantau island, which is quite natural. Used to be
home to fishing villages and the odd peaceful monastery up in the
hills - in fact, the island is pretty much all hills,, IIRC.

The airport is on reclaimed land that's tacked onto the side.

 

It's Chep Lap Kok and most certainly is on a man made island - near
Lantau. While the airport is much more spacious and well equipped than
Kai Tak could ever be the landing and take off is dull in comparison to
what used to happen.

 

The best view I ever saw was from the top of Lion Rock. Quite a sight
looking *down* on airliners floating gracefully over the city, with
their shadows dancing across the buildings.

 

Not me squire. I lived in Shatin (when it was all fields) and work was
based in Kwai Fong. Did some work on the Tsing Yi bridge.

 

How on earth did they manage that?

Must have blown the roof off every building under the approach path.[/QUOTE]

I recall Concorde doing a flypast in the seventies: we knew it'd be
flying round the harbour on a particular day but it was still a
surprise to hear what at first sounded like military jet engines.

What made it particularly unusual was that we lived on the island side
of the harbour at that time, so aircraft noises were somewhat rare.