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Tag Archives: Kai Tak Airport
Charts and plans for Kai Tak Airport
Kai Tak Airport was once the international airport for Hong Kong, with the single runway and eight jetbridges somehow handing 30 million passengers and 1.5 million tonnes of freight per year, before it was replaced by the current Hong Kong […]
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Tagged 1990s, aviation, history, Hong Kong International Airport, Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon
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Scale models of Kai Tak Airport
Unfortunately for aviation enthusiasts Kai Tak Airport no longer exists, but it does live on in model form. Photo via ‘The Diecast Flyer’ Donald Gardner from ‘The Diecast Flyer’ has the full story on the model. Hu Chow has created […]
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Tagged hobbies, Hong Kong, Kai Tak Airport, planes, scale models
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Closure of Kai Tak Airport and the transfer to Chek Lap Kok
The closure of Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport in 1998 and the overnight switch to the new airport at Chek Lap Kok always intrigued me – how did they manage such a massive move?
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Tagged 1990s, aviation, Chek Lap Kok, history, Hong Kong, Hong Kong International Airport, Kai Tak Airport
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Kai Tak Airport arrival in 1998
My first visit to Hong Kong was in February 1998 – a few months after the territory had been handed back to Mainland China, but while the world renowned Kai Tai Airport was still open to passengers. Here is a YouTube video showing the hair raising approach to the airport.
Hong Kong transport footage from the 1990s
The other week on YouTube I stumbled upon a great collection of Hong Kong transport footage, recorded back in 1993/94 and uploaded by a user going by the name of ‘kamepo‘. We start by looking out the right hand side […]
Posted in Transport
Tagged buses, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Tramways, Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon, Star Ferry, trams
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