Old VC10 Kai Tak newspaper cutting

speedbird591 · Post by **speedbird591** » 07 Jul 2006, 20:41

I just found this while looking for something else and thought it might be of interest. Sorry the pic is longer than the allowed size, but it's not the right shape

Post by **DaveB** » 07 Jul 2006, 21:00

Nice one Ian

ATB

DaveB :tab:

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 07 Jul 2006, 21:00

:shock: Now thats a photo!

I can almost hear how loud that must have been!

Post by **Garry Russell** » 07 Jul 2006, 21:02

:shock: That's something else

Garry

blanston12 · Post by **blanston12** » 07 Jul 2006, 21:13

I liked that they included the film type and exposure information with the story, I though only camera magazines did that.

AlexP · Post by **AlexP** » 10 Jul 2006, 15:41

That's a very impressive photo. I would have loved to have been able to fly into Kai Tak but as thats simple not possible photos such as this are great for giving a small insight as to what it must have been like.

Has anyone here flow into Hong Kong in the days when Kai Tak was open? What was that approch like from the inside?

airboatr · Post by **airboatr** » 10 Jul 2006, 16:31

hell I'd be ducking
the Tail is very well shown in this photo
it's Masive
thanks for that

speedbird591 · Post by **speedbird591** » 10 Jul 2006, 21:36

AlexP wrote:Has anyone here flow into Hong Kong in the days when Kai Tak was open? What was that approch like from the inside?

Hi, Alex. A few of us on here flew regularly into Kai Tak. It was in full use until Chek Lap Kok opened in 1997 and then closed overnight - literally! I flew in there regularly as cabin crew with BOAC/BA on VC10s and 747s and was lucky enough to sit on the flight deck several times. I can't do the experience justice in words. The ILS approach over the heavily built-up area of Kowloon was offset from the runway by 47 degrees. This was because of a high rock directly inline with the runway. The turn was started at the middle marker, about 2 miles from touchdown at 800ft, and the rest of the landing had to be completely visual. Looking out of the right windows you could look down into the streets and at the washing on the lines on top of the buildings. You were descending all the time during the turn and the aircraft in the photo will have just straightened up and hopefully will have the centreline directly ahead of him. The pilot will have about half a mile to make any corrections before commiting himself.

I recently posted a series of landing sequence shots in flightsim. These might help to give you an idea of what it was like.

http://cbfsim.org/cbfsimv5/cbfsbb/viewt ... ght=#75916
http://cbfsim.org/cbfsimv5/cbfsbb/viewt ... ght=#77248

Incredibly, no aircraft crashed during the approach, but several overshot the runway and ended up sitting in the harbour. I remember one 747 was there for a couple of months and they had to cut the tail off asap so that it didn't interfere with traffic operations.

Regards, Ian

AlexP · Post by **AlexP** » 11 Jul 2006, 13:46

Ian, thanks for that little insight and the links to previous info., much appreciated.

Alex

speedbird591 · Post by **speedbird591** » 21 Jul 2006, 20:53

Sorry to resurrect this post after so long, but I was just browsing through some videos on YouTube and found this cockpit view of a landing on Kai Tak 13 in the rain. There are more but this captures the essence of it better than I can describe it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqJbb0qmjns

Also this helicopter crash will put you off your banana flambe :sad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX8zHYKCt-g

Ian