Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport (1925 - 1998) 香港啟德機場

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  • Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
  • First of all, this is a collection from UA-cam. I would like to thank all the enthusiasts from UA-cam especially Mr. Boyd Kelly (airboyd of UA-cam) which I used their best fragments in making this special Kai Tak video. Background music from "633 Squadron" by Mr. Ron Goodwin.
    Kai Tak Airport VHHH (1925 - 1998) VHHX (since 1998) "traditional Chinese: 啟德機場" was the world's busiest international airport. The growth of Hong Kong put a strain on the airport's capacity. The airport was designed to handle 24 million passengers per year but in 1996, Kai Tak had already handled 29.5 million passengers, plus 1.56 million tonnes of freight, making it the third busiest airport in the world in terms of passenger traffic, and first in terms of cargo. However extremely busy Kai Tak was located in the city center, the Kowloon City "九龍城" (The city of nine dragons "city surrounded by nine mountains"), around by high density buildings, numerous skyscrapers and rugged mountains reaching an altitude of 2000 ft. with single narrow runway (13/31) very close to taxiway jutting out into Victoria Harbour, and further less than 10 Km is Hong Kong Island, another densely populated area with hills up to 2100 ft. The only way approach to Runway 13 was a sharp 47-degree right turn before and of the same level with the checkerboard (a small hill painted with red and white checkerboard at 1:18) at about 100-meter altitude then align with the runway. Often with strong crosswinds, the airport was infamously difficult to land at. However, due to the same reasons, only experience pilots were chosen for the challenging approach and air crash incidents rarely occur.
    The low altitude manoeuvre was so spectacular that crowded streets of people, multi-storey buildings, vehicles and pavements can easily be "touch". I can hear "WOW" or "My God" from passengers when they aware of the home decorations through apartment windows which is of the same level with the aircraft like flickering of televisions even children say "Hi" to them before landing. In this video, you can found the most extremely landing, but these happened several hundred times per day, and was just the real daily life of Hong Kong people.

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  • @terrytang5367
    @terrytang5367 Рік тому +44

    So many good memories, I left Hong Kong to Toronto for school in the summer of 1985 when I was 16. My very first time taking a flight all by myself without speaking any English. My dad bought the cheapest ticket which was Taiwan Airline and I had to stop in Taipei, Japan, and San Fransico! It was over 30 hours all by myself and I didn't have a US visa at that time so I was put in an area with the surveillance of an officer during my transit. I didn't have any US dollar bill with me for the deposit of the cart for my luggage at the San Fransico airport so a girl who seat next to me on the plane lent me a dollar, and I owe her a dollar for 38 years! My English was so bad I couldn't even manage to buy batteries for my walkman at the airport! OMG it was 38 freaking years ago but it seems like yesterday! I miss Kai Tak airport!

    • @asianverse7313
      @asianverse7313 Рік тому +3

      wow bro, you came a long long way, look at your English now, excellent!!!!!

    • @user-wc6jt6zj9p
      @user-wc6jt6zj9p 9 місяців тому +6

      いろいろご苦労が有ったのですね。お疲れ様です。私は32年前に名古屋空港から香港啓徳空港を往復しました。ビルが林立して人が沢山居て、独特な香りがするのが香港でした。夜景やら船上レストランやらタイガーバーム園やらetc.もう一度、あの頃に戻りたいです😿

    • @Songbirdstress
      @Songbirdstress День тому

      I too did some similar crazy stuff at that age. Back then, it's the way it was.

    • @Songbirdstress
      @Songbirdstress День тому

      @@user-wc6jt6zj9p Tiger Balm Garden?

  • @Arikirikuze98
    @Arikirikuze98 13 років тому +3

    I was a flight attendant with Cathay Pacific and we flew over those low-rises and laundry lines with metres to spare and i did live in a top floor flat in the flight path for 18 months. Still miss Kai Tak. One of the quickest & most efficient international airports in the world in its time.

  • @daved7912
    @daved7912 2 роки тому +12

    I am a former multi engine, commercial instrument rated pilot with over 3000 hours and literally millions of miles on commercial airlines. Suffice it to say I am an aviation nut. I have flown into Kai Tak more than a dozen times on various airlines and was never not amazed and thrilled. As a pilot, the approach confused me (thought it must have been a DME Arc) but a gracious captain from United showed me the approach plate and described the bizarre checker board approach in detail. Others have commented on the skills required to fly this approach and they are spot on. I have watched this video many, many times and will continue to do so. And my point in submitting this is really just to profusely thank those made it possible for all to see.

  • @Vpmatt
    @Vpmatt 10 років тому +621

    For the first and only time in history, the music in an airplane video hasn't annoyed the shit out of me and actually enhances the footage. Well done.

    • @howardfortyfive9676
      @howardfortyfive9676 9 років тому +12

      Yes *absolutely and I unequivocally agree. My thoughts were early Star Wars. Does that sound about right? These pilots are NOT flying little Corvettes or Bushplanes but they are flying them as tho they were flying in the bush of Alaska Burma or Southeast Asia. I thought that great music really added to the overall film. Just WOW.*

    • @MrJonniconni
      @MrJonniconni 9 років тому +16

      Howard Fortyfive music from 1964 movie... 633 squadron.

    • @UlliStein
      @UlliStein 5 років тому +1

      Oh yes, sounds like a Star Wars soundtrack. Maybe the same composer?

    • @phillipecook3227
      @phillipecook3227 5 років тому +3

      Agree completely. Great video and great music. 633 Squadron by Ron Goodwin from the 1969 movie.

    • @strykerdefence1763
      @strykerdefence1763 4 роки тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/GNItvbsQqpM/v-deo.html
      💪

  • @mariusnesser2205
    @mariusnesser2205 10 років тому +49

    For a couple of years in the '80s, I lived in HK in the Kowloon area where the planes would roar overhead on approach to Kai Tak. It was spectacular to say the least. I once had the privilege of being in a cockpit on approach to Kai Tak - unforgettable! Thanks for the memories, bigeyedchicken, and of course, good ol' Kai Tak.

  • @keolumike
    @keolumike 4 роки тому +2

    It was 1955 my family flew from SEA on a Northwest Constellation with sleeping berths. From Narita via Naha in Okinawa and Taipei we arrived over Hong Kong in a DC-7. I was ten and this was my first airplane trip. I felt we were so close to the walls ringing the harbor and runway that now, 60 years later it was the most exciting passenger flight I had ever been on.

  • @TheAviationEnthusiast
    @TheAviationEnthusiast 8 років тому +89

    When I think of Kai Tak I think of two things. 747s and Hong Kong...man I miss that airport

    • @Lee247Jamaica
      @Lee247Jamaica 3 роки тому +2

      I think 747s a330s cathey pacific runway13 and hong kong

  • @michelfortin7055
    @michelfortin7055 10 років тому +269

    I started flying for Cathay Pacific in 1991 so I have fond memories of this airport. An approach on the infamous runway 13 could certainly get your adrenalin pumping at times. One of the few runways in the world where a jetliner could not do an automatic final approach and landing. It was all done manually. When the wind was blowing hard across the runway, and it did so very often, it was always entertaining to watch the non-Hong Kong based airlines attempt a landing. Of course Korean Air was always a favorite to watch in these conditions, since many of their pilots were having quite a hard time dealing with the manual landing in gusty crosswind conditions, as attested by numerous UA-cam videos. The more modern airport which replaced it in 1998 at Chek Lap Kok is much more user friendly but in strong winds it can also be very interesting due to the interaction with the mountains of Lantau island.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 9 років тому +2

      Michel Fortin Last time I was on a plane that was doing this landing/take off naughty me tried to take a photo sequence out of the plane window with my camera when we weren't supposed to. Was runway 13 the one by the Marlboro poster?

    • @michelfortin7055
      @michelfortin7055 9 років тому +1

      Ralph Jackson Indeed it was Ralph.

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 9 років тому +1

      Michel Fortin Thanks Michel!

    • @JUSTENization
      @JUSTENization 5 років тому +2

      Salute to you Sir; and many other piloted them wide bodies landing in cross wind.

    • @emmataylor9298
      @emmataylor9298 5 років тому +1

      I grew up in HK and went back and forth to Boarding school - WE ARE SO GREATFUL FOR YOUR FLYING.

  • @shoelessal1786
    @shoelessal1786 3 роки тому +7

    Thank you for this!! I was born and raised in HK, departed, and landed in Kai Tak many times when I was younger. I will always remember the hard right turn before landing, knowing it's about to touch down at my highest emotion. The downslope exit after immigration when you enter HK inside the terminal was also unforgettable, the moment when always hundreds of people waiting for their pickup and they all look upright at you while you're trying very hard to find your own pickup. My most fond memories were the rides going to Kai Tak and inside the terminal, the sad times when leaving, and the happy times when return - mom and dad will always be there. I will always love HK, but I missed the good old days more...

    • @bluejasmine8690
      @bluejasmine8690 2 роки тому +1

      Yess..those pick up persons often seen in HK 's movies, so that when I was there in 1997 & saw them ...is one of a good old memory 😁

    • @terrytang5367
      @terrytang5367 9 місяців тому

      Oh the smell right after landing on the Kai Tak airport. How can I forget that!

  • @maruhantv7942
    @maruhantv7942 4 роки тому +145

    Korea airline landing golden medal⚜

  • @neilfoster814
    @neilfoster814 Рік тому +6

    Imagine looking out of your hotel window DOWN onto a 747 going past at 200mph!
    Love the "633 Squadron" theme music. Great video!

  • @user-kohakuchandesu
    @user-kohakuchandesu 2 роки тому +10

    20年前に、香港🇭🇰に行きました。大好きな街。いつの日か、また行ける日が来ますように。

  • @dansmusic4579
    @dansmusic4579 5 років тому +3

    I flew 747-400 planes into Kai Tak many times from 1991-1996. The IGS to Runway 13 was a bit of a challenge to those who had not done it before, but after about 10 or 20 landings there, one gets to figure out just what is needed and how to handle it well. The Cathay Pacific pilots had it nailed -- they were really good, as this was their home base. All those bad landings you see in the video are primarily due to sloppy planning and/or overshooting the turn to final. If there is a cross wind from the right (common-- you see it in almost all the 'sideways' landings in the videos), you CANNOT turn late -- you must start the right turn to final exactly as published or even a wee bit before. Otherwise, you'll end up in more than 30 degrees bank (saw that in the video) to correct back to course on final And there is only a very short time to make the corrections! Another big mistake was the pilots who level off a bit as they make that turn -- you MUST continue the rate of descent you had on the IGS (about 800 to 900 feet per minute usually) in that turn, or you'll end up high on short final -- time for a steep dive and hope you don't pick up a bunch of speed you didn't need!
    BTW, no one mentioned the famous red and white 'checkerboard' on the side of the mountain --- that is the 'aiming point' on the IGS portion of the approach -- aim for the checkerboard, then.... turn right about 80 degrees (? forgot the exact turn required) and 'land over there!'
    Yes, I miss the fun of landings at Kai Tak. Chep Lap Kok is a boring approach and landing, unless a typhoon is in progress! The good thing is they quickly built a freeway highway and fast rail train route to Kowloon and then to HK island from Lantau just before the new airport opened up. Sorry to be so long winded here!

  • @pwo128
    @pwo128 11 років тому +1

    What a fabulous approach that was - Kai Tak will always be a great memory of mine of Honkers in the 90s. Watching such huge aircraft make such steep turns at low altitude was breathtaking! But it was a disaster waiting to happen and I'm surprised nobody parked a B744 in Kowloon. The move to Chep Lap Kok was a prudent one.

  • @limolee007
    @limolee007 9 років тому +9

    Mate of mine was invited to sit in with crew on landing at this airport in mid nineties and for him he said it was the biggest thrill of his life. The angle of decent over city and last minute rotations made him feel any pilot doing this would have to be awesome!

  • @kenross4256
    @kenross4256 10 років тому +31

    One of my favorite videos on UA-cam!

  • @pamelahugh4
    @pamelahugh4 10 років тому +30

    Thanks for doing this. It's very special to all who loved HK.

  • @rjslade
    @rjslade 14 років тому +1

    I love the new airport, but I sure regret never getting the chance to visit Kai Tak and the surrounding area for some spotting. Absolutely incredible! Great video! THank you for posting.

  • @eltfell
    @eltfell 10 років тому +23

    Usually, I am totally against background music in aviation videos, but this is utterly great!

  • @maddie107
    @maddie107 15 років тому +1

    God bless Kai Tak, I remember as a kid watching them land from the peak, and watching the Cathay Pacific planes practicing the landing by going round in circles, touching the runway then taking off again. Also, my brother's secondary school was on the flight path and school assemblies and plays would pause due to planes flying loudly overhead. New one doesn't compare.

  • @leungstone5287
    @leungstone5287 3 роки тому +7

    My dad used to living in Kowloon City so it was very close to the airport. Everyday aeroplanes would just fly above his head. The buildings there were short to prevent collision of the aeroplane with bridges or buildings. Because of the abundance of mountains in Hog Kong there were a hill painted with checker marks. Whenever the pilot saw the pattern they will do a very sharp turn and land on the airport. The aeroplane were flying so low that sometimes it was just 50 meters up in the air so the engine force of the aeroplane can be physically felt on the ground. Sadly the government decided to build a new airport at the Lantau Island and therefore after serving for 70+ years the old airport was finally retired. In WW2 the Japanese bombed this airport to prevent RAF fighters getting airborne. After that the Japanese mined the stone in a 700+ years site an expanded the airport. This airport is truly fascinating and even though I wasn't born until the 21 century I will always remember this airport in my heart.

  • @lalapotatopotato
    @lalapotatopotato 14 років тому +1

    I am proud of being able to live in Hong Kong and have the experience of taking the flights from Kai Tak and seeing the views of the flats nearby. Thanks a lot for your great work and edition here to share with the global villagers!!!!!

  • @user-ch1se6bv1o
    @user-ch1se6bv1o 2 роки тому +11

    Giving my full respect to all the pilots!

  • @lapdogs
    @lapdogs 12 років тому +1

    Incredible that "only one" jet ended up in the water. Amazing landings by the pilots!!

  • @wellohmeeeeeee
    @wellohmeeeeeee 14 років тому +6

    I remember landing in a 747 at Hong Kong Kai Tak on a beautiful golden light sun setting evening in 1987.
    It was quite surreal with all the buildings lights so close, an amazing experience!

  • @damphotos
    @damphotos 13 років тому +2

    Awesome! Many years ago, my Mother 'warned' me about the landing at the old Hong Kong airport, and just like everybody else who heard the stories, I didn't believe it!
    And then of course, like everyone else, I saw it for myself. And finally I believed! And it was gob-smacking amazing. A free roller-coaster ride... And I lurved it! :o)
    You could almost read the teletext on peoples' TV screens as you went past. It was amazing.
    The new airport is wonderful, but RIP Kai Tak... sniff! :o(

  • @MingWLee
    @MingWLee 4 роки тому +3

    I was born and live in Kowloon City where the district right next to Kai Tak Airport. Whenever there was a plane fly across, it was so loud that even you are screaming right next to your friend, your friend still cannot hear what you say.
    Btw, @2:39 the second building on the right was my home, it is amazing to see footage of my old home town.

  • @yeahmilksucks
    @yeahmilksucks 9 років тому +2

    Several landings at Kai Tak in the 90;s ....Super Cool!!!!!! Miss that Airport!

  • @gregmiley67
    @gregmiley67 11 років тому +6

    Great collection of clips. I flew this route many times and each and every time it was a heart beat in my throat. It was nice to wave at high rise residents as we floated below their highest floors and made our final course corrections. Gears down, nose up, hang on

  • @Scousefire
    @Scousefire 3 роки тому +2

    1:12 onwards for a few seconds, the music, the views, the retro window wipers = goosebumps!

  • @EEED8888
    @EEED8888 3 роки тому +7

    My first time. Landing at kaitak.
    I see cloth line next side my wing.

  • @Raditram
    @Raditram 6 років тому +1

    can't believe this video is 10 years old! I grew up watching this video, the music really enhanced the experience.

  • @yiuyeungkan157
    @yiuyeungkan157 8 років тому +45

    RIP Kai Tak 1925-1998 You will be missed

  • @zimondye
    @zimondye 12 років тому +1

    My Dad was an RAF pilot who flew Dakotas from Kai Tak immediately after the end of WW2. My own experience of landing there as a commercial passenger was the immense feeling of relief at the end of the rollout and the thought "I'm alive"!

  • @yonderosa
    @yonderosa 10 років тому +8

    Flew in and out of Kai Tak scores of times starting in the mid 80's..."Kai Tak Heart Attack" is a good one Andrew. I also saw clotheslines and on one approach saw an elderly woman sitting at her small table with teapot and cup easily visible. I was always a passenger on some version of 747 with several airlines and my hats off to all the pilots that negotiated that approach. Never, not once did I feel the crew was anything but spot on in their landings....and the crosswinds could be wicked fun as the videos show. I feel blessed to have flown in and out as many times as I did.....and a window seat was a must!

  • @WaterShowsProd
    @WaterShowsProd 14 років тому +1

    Perfect music choice. The piloting into Kai Tak was excellent. Even with those landings, the actual touchdowns were smooth.

  • @hectorsoy
    @hectorsoy 10 років тому +7

    I loved landing at Kai Tak!! I miss it so much!! Best landing experience of all time! It's such a shame we can no longer experience this!

  • @hugienoolew
    @hugienoolew 14 років тому +1

    Best Kai Tak video I've seen! great music from 633 squadron! I have fond memories of flying in to Kai Tak! The seats on the right hand side of the aircraft , behind the wing were the best!

  • @thcorp1
    @thcorp1 3 роки тому +3

    i used to stop by this airport from DXB to Incheon when there was no direct flights.i still remember the rough landings of cathays.smoking and ashtrays were allowed. Loved the hospitality of the cathay stewardess who gave me toys and game cards, and thanks to all the pilots who flew them to get me to where i could get❤

  • @warminator1091
    @warminator1091 14 років тому +1

    Kai Tak, a legend.
    A 90° turn on final, flying over dense buildings, crosswinds and a single runway that was quite short.

  • @minseok2432
    @minseok2432 4 роки тому +52

    대한항공 기장님..대박..

    • @Minseok_Ko
      @Minseok_Ko 4 роки тому +6

      이제는 볼 수 없는 전설의 카이탁 렌딩...

    • @konaru413
      @konaru413 4 роки тому +1

      어떻게 저렇게 착륙하는지 대단하시네...

    • @puipui2390
      @puipui2390 4 роки тому

      @@konaru413 실제로

    • @phamhannism
      @phamhannism 4 роки тому +2

      유튜브 알고리즘으로 모이게 된 한국인

    • @flyingdutchman_NL
      @flyingdutchman_NL 4 роки тому

      Nou eerlijk gezegd ben ik het niet eens met wat je hier zegt. Ik begrijp namelijk totaal niet wat je bedoelt.

  • @TheOndrayTV
    @TheOndrayTV 12 років тому +1

    My dad used to work in Air France flying the B777-200 Classic. He's now working in Hong Kong Airline as a senior captain and he told me that if he could ever had a chance to fly into kai tak again, he'd definitely do it.

  • @RuiPlaneSpotter
    @RuiPlaneSpotter 3 роки тому +3

    I really liked the video!

  • @velvethammerproducti
    @velvethammerproducti 13 років тому +1

    Flew into Kai Tak 1996. Could look into people's living rooms just off the wingtips. Truly amazing.

  • @biu9837
    @biu9837 5 років тому +62

    Those pilots entered the plane as boys but left after the Kai Tak landing as men 😂

  • @AccordGTR
    @AccordGTR 14 років тому +1

    I flew to Kai Tek from 9 years old till my Honeymoon. I love it and HK, the Las Vegas of the East. All great memories.

  • @rockape252
    @rockape252 8 років тому +10

    Hi,
    I first flew into Kai Tak in Mid 1968 in an RAF C130 Hercules.
    Then was invited with some of my mates to be passengers on a visiting RAF Comet so the pilots could get their Night Landing certificate doing touch and go around, that was bloody great :)
    My last landing was in 1982 and final take off was in 1985.
    How I miss Hong Kong and runway 13 :)

    • @Stephen-Steven-Stephens
      @Stephen-Steven-Stephens 5 років тому

      I have vague memories of a Hercybird going in the water at takeoff once....
      aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19940923-0
      My best trip in one though was Brize to Gander, to Nassau, to Belize..I broke into a Field Ambulance and kipped for the first leg but it was so long ago I have forgotten how far we took in that particular plane..

  • @DearSybersue
    @DearSybersue 14 років тому +1

    I used to fly there all the time as a flight attendant and it was always a thrill landing there! Sitting at door three on the 747 you could see the firemen playing basketball and people's clothes drying outside their balconies! Great video, thanks for the memories...lol

  • @dansolo6417
    @dansolo6417 5 років тому +3

    Loved the approach when going into the airport and the lights when leaving the airport at night, miss it loads.

  • @shesathome
    @shesathome Рік тому +2

    I had immense pleasure of visiting Hong Kong in May, 1998 just months before Kai Tak was shut. Frightening and exciting experience! I was doubtful when they said that all costly navigational equipment will be moved from Kai to Lap Kok in 12 hour operation. And they did it! Wow to Chinese!

  • @garyberryable
    @garyberryable 3 роки тому +2

    Landing at Kai Tak Airport was the highlight of a polite's dream.

  • @hectorsoy
    @hectorsoy 12 років тому +5

    I miss the old airport. And I first landed there at night!! Great stuff!

  • @nitrosun07
    @nitrosun07 15 років тому +1

    This is one of the greatest collective memories for Hong Kong people. I really miss you Kai Tak, for all those beautiful childhood dreams and memories.

    • @kenlee-97
      @kenlee-97 3 роки тому

      Waaa..., why no likes for this comment in 11 years, great comment sir.

  • @TheJacky19950105
    @TheJacky19950105 9 років тому +15

    My mon used to have 2 working trips a week. When every time we talked about the past, she said it was a life experience to land or take off from kai tak. I can't imagine the airport was 15 mins of driving away from where i grow up.
    And there is a way to know if the pilot suck "If u see the Marlboro logo is about your eye level when landing, thats a perfect landing. If u found it's way under your feet, grab a plastic bag and get ready to throw up!" HAHA

    • @vincentc1194
      @vincentc1194 8 років тому +6

      +shu fai ma the pilots dont suck when they fly into kai tak, there are severe windshears at the airport, landing the plane itself proves the pilot to be good

    • @vincentc1194
      @vincentc1194 8 років тому +1

      Rancher Sam my toilet is white if you know what i mean

    • @vincentc1194
      @vincentc1194 8 років тому

      Rancher Sam you have issues, chinese are yellow not white

    • @vincentc1194
      @vincentc1194 8 років тому

      Rancher Sam in your town? you mean in your pathetic crappy ranch?

  • @mildenhalljohn
    @mildenhalljohn 12 років тому +1

    Kai Tak is no more, but thanks to these videos, the memories will live for ever.

  • @ajhiflyer
    @ajhiflyer 9 років тому +6

    The first time I landed here was in 1976, sitting behind the captain on a meal cannister(health and safety didn't seem to matter so much then). That was on a VC10(RAF) but subsequently on DC10s and 747s with British Caledonian and British Airways. It was always a thrill!

  • @NobbyBinks
    @NobbyBinks 15 років тому +1

    Lol, I used to work in Kowloon Tong in the late 90's. My eardrums would almost pop every time I went on my lunch break

  • @alexysgregorys2873
    @alexysgregorys2873 11 місяців тому +7

    the best show on earth

  • @teresavirina7735
    @teresavirina7735 5 років тому +1

    Wow, just read Kai Tak raiport was used for 72 years. From what I heard from pilots as a retired cabin crew, Kai Tak was one of the most difficult. During approach to landing the pilots guide to runway was a big "red & white" painted sign on a mountain, & on a certain distance, the pilots have to make a sharp right turn to see the the runway. I never forgot landing at this airport during near touchdown, one see's low rise condos left & right. Glad hongkong build a more friendly although I will never forget Kai tsk ! Happy was part of that airport during takeoff & landing !!

  • @YodaOnDMT
    @YodaOnDMT 9 років тому +49

    They should have kept this airport open by all accounts just so pilots and passengers could have this unique experience.
    It must be the equivalent of racing at the classic F1 circuits which are "not up to standard" but so much more fun than the crop of boring, sanitised circuits they mostly go to now.

    • @RodrigoMontemezzoBR
      @RodrigoMontemezzoBR 9 років тому

      in F1 circuits, safety comes first. imagine in an airport!

    • @kimjongun3149
      @kimjongun3149 9 років тому +17

      In my opinion, it should have stayed for Regional Aircrafts.

    • @Ultranationalist941
      @Ultranationalist941 9 років тому +5

      Kim Jong un Come on Kim! Build one just like this right smack in the middle of Pyong Yang!

    • @taehyunniee
      @taehyunniee 9 років тому +4

      I love in Hong Kong and the reason why the shut it down cuz it was noise for ppl to sleep so the move it but they change the old air port to a ship port

    • @YodaOnDMT
      @YodaOnDMT 9 років тому +9

      TobyManIsHere
      I can imagine it being slightly awkward for locals to be honest...a plane flying past your toilet window whilst you're on "the throne" might be a tad disconcerting.
      Great for the rest of us to watch, or even better, experience.

  • @Neocelt146
    @Neocelt146 14 років тому +1

    Brilliant! Kai Tak was special, and flying into or out of Honkers was an experience like no other major airport in the world. I remember seeing people on their balconies overlooking Happy Valley as the stretch DC8 I was on jockeyed for landing position. The thrill of looking out your window just before landing and being almost level with the junks on "Fragrant Harbour" was very special.

  • @noodleseasutter4093
    @noodleseasutter4093 4 роки тому +31

    0:59 Normal Ryanair Landing...

  • @leanneteh1913
    @leanneteh1913 5 років тому +1

    All were beautiful landing photos.

  • @realhelathylifestyle
    @realhelathylifestyle 6 років тому +293

    Passenger self talk during approach. Oh look, Hong Kong, wow, all those high rise buildings. Getting close, really close... Hold on WTF. why so close. I can see knickers and tshirts on the clothes lines.. Wait, thats the runway. AT NINETY DEGREES TO US. NOOOO. Whats going on. Jesus, why is he dropping the wing, he's going to hit those apartments. Christ, he's coming around so slowly... now there is a motorway flyover... Ahhh we just crossed the fence... BUT WE ARE NOT straight... oh there's the runway... AND WE ARE STILL SIX STORIES HIGH... down plane, down, down... OH NO, we are half way down the runway, still not landed... THUMP, landed. Breathe. Release handrest from deathgrip.

    • @jackiebayliss
      @jackiebayliss 5 років тому +4

      Lol...💯

    • @emmataylor9298
      @emmataylor9298 5 років тому +7

      Exactly my experience - haaaa

    • @sparra3819
      @sparra3819 5 років тому +2

      I think I'll pass on this destination.. omg lol

    • @mathieuclement8011
      @mathieuclement8011 4 роки тому +3

      this is both hilarious and sadly, accurate.

    • @adamp.3739
      @adamp.3739 4 роки тому +1

      @@mathieuclement8011 One could easily chuck a grenade at one of these aircraft, they were so low!

  • @mickavellian
    @mickavellian 12 років тому +1

    That good bye was touching ... got me teary eyed , and the music was PERFECT cause that was the feeling you had landing there . "I am about to live some REALLY important moment in my life!" Thank you Hong Kong, literally a thrill a second from arrival to departure"

  • @sitdownleung6657
    @sitdownleung6657 Рік тому +4

    Proud of Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport

  • @deelite19
    @deelite19 14 років тому +1

    this is SURREAL!!!!
    one of my biggest regrets as a world traveler... i never had the chance to fly into HK when Kai Tak was still in use!

  • @brettney72
    @brettney72 6 років тому +4

    Kai Tak best airport in the world for airlines crew so much fun

  • @tomlee1176
    @tomlee1176 5 років тому +1

    I am from Hong Kong. Those giant planes flew right above my head every day when I was a kid.

  • @jgharston
    @jgharston 2 роки тому +8

    Miss you Kai Tak. I used to live right under the flight path.

  • @brucewayne3602
    @brucewayne3602 3 роки тому +1

    absolutely unbelievable ... stretching the boundaries of reality ... everyone should have experienced a daylight landing @ Kai Tak to fully comprehend ... brilliant video ... Thank-you !!!

  • @tarquinbullocks1703
    @tarquinbullocks1703 Рік тому +4

    Kai Tak. Man, those were the days...best fun landings ever.

  • @chikinnie29
    @chikinnie29 5 років тому +1

    2:34 My grandparents used to live in one of those flats on the left. I always loved to look out of the window where the planes were just at my eye level when landing. Good and lucky old days of Hong Kong

  • @LeAOWAviation
    @LeAOWAviation 2 роки тому +4

    In 1995, my mum went on Royal Nepal Airlines 757 to Kai Tak Airport, so sad we could not fly there anymore 😢

  • @William65362
    @William65362 3 роки тому +2

    I love this video. Goodbye KT, and thank you (even though I didn't have the opportunity to know you).

    • @sweetmotogal6
      @sweetmotogal6 2 роки тому

      I flew in and out of HK too many times from Kai Tak. I remember my grandma was holding her tears when I left HK to study in Canada in1989. She passed away in 1998. Goodbye Kaitak. Thank you.

  • @mandrake127
    @mandrake127 13 років тому +4

    Spectacular and perfect matching of the 633 squadron music. :o)

  • @LammaDogLover
    @LammaDogLover 13 років тому +1

    This film makes me happy. It also makes miss the real Hong Kong of my youth. Kai Tak rocked!

  • @BaystoneBridge
    @BaystoneBridge 8 років тому +6

    One of the tricky things was that from the left hand seat the moment you began the right turn from the IGS you lost sight of the runway due to the cut off angle of the right hand windscreen this lasted until you rolled the wings level.

  • @rext8949
    @rext8949 5 років тому +1

    The city which grew up around the airport; and that too how, with skyscrapers and all. The approach leaves everything to the fervid imagination, the touchdown and brutal hard rudder to align the 300 ton machine is sufficient to permanently lodge the stomach in the troat. Not for the faint of heart, only for the bravehearts! Salute the crew who landed here in all types of weather.

  • @gasaholic47
    @gasaholic47 10 років тому +35

    They would fly so low among the residential buildings, I can imagine this conversation in the cockpit:
    PIC: Turning right on final...
    Co-pilot: Ooohh...you should see these two getting it on in that apartment!
    PIC: Oh, wow....
    (Alarm sounds) PULL UP! PULL UP!! ;-)

    • @mathieuclement8011
      @mathieuclement8011 4 роки тому +1

      I think for this approach the pull up alarm is replaced by "May the Force Be With You", "the electronics of this plane give up, you are too insane for us"

  • @crystallicudine6845
    @crystallicudine6845 3 роки тому +2

    My employer just tell a story about this awhile back when she show me the newly build buildings on the road side which is she said it's previously Kai Tak airport, and ask me to search it in the internet, and now i was amaze how good the pilots way back then,how they manage to landing in this aieport. Just wow

    • @kenlee-97
      @kenlee-97 3 роки тому

      Hi , I was in H.K about 2 years ago ,and I see the buildings you are referring to. They weren't in construction yet over 2 years ago , but were about to start building the foundations for your work buildings at the time , that all used to be just grass for emergency landings where an aircraft would have to land before the runway would start.

  • @christynelaw1362
    @christynelaw1362 Рік тому +6

    I lived in hong kong and landed many times at Kai tak airport if you visited Kowloon city you would me amazed at how close the planes were to the top of the buildings my first there i thought that the plane was going to hit the buildings so scary

  • @Andrey-ku8ey
    @Andrey-ku8ey 4 роки тому +2

    epic music for an epic approach

  • @twinsonic
    @twinsonic 11 років тому +3

    Awesome memories, thanks a lot!!

  • @puikwaiyu3388
    @puikwaiyu3388 4 роки тому

    今日 2020 2 月28 日, 重溫這段回憶, 也十分懷念當年在世運公園觀看飛機下降的情景, 直正溫故知新了, 謝謝上載者的心思!!!!

  • @robertk2007
    @robertk2007 2 роки тому +17

    No autopilot landings here

  • @Marybgreat
    @Marybgreat 12 років тому

    Never get tired of watching this. Pilots have a shared pride in Kai Tak. After watching this video, I know why. Bravo to all the Captains in Command! Wonderful memories.

  • @thsehddnr
    @thsehddnr 3 роки тому +3

    The landing scene of Korean Air is the best in the world at any time.

  • @Jasonnnnnnn007
    @Jasonnnnnnn007 14 років тому +1

    i can stand there whole day just to see the plane fly pass..
    i love planes !!

  • @GoodVideos4
    @GoodVideos4 7 років тому +13

    I was in Hong Kong in 1996. Yeah, the dramatic landing at Kai Tak Airport was a good introduction to the Hong Kong Beat.
    When the plane was coming down to land, look out the window at the ground, and the shoddy and packed apartment blocks get closer and closer, and your eyes get bigger and bigger. And then suddenly, they disappear and one sees grass, and then the runway. Looking sideways out the window, would see the ocean nearby.

    • @GoodVideos4
      @GoodVideos4 7 років тому +1

      Oh well, Kai Tak Airport must remain in flight simulators (if not already). It's good training for pilots, a good challenge. And, as a souvenir of it.

  • @fsxlucas1
    @fsxlucas1 14 років тому +1

    Nice! i like the clip of the KLM B747 passing throught the buildings at 2:34

  • @user-wj4ks8dk7k
    @user-wj4ks8dk7k 2 роки тому +4

    懐かしいです!

  • @Nosotros333
    @Nosotros333 12 років тому +1

    Kai Tak for ever!
    Greetings from Argentina!

  • @agentiki
    @agentiki 2 роки тому +2

    I have NOT forgotten!

  • @j23ggtv
    @j23ggtv 5 років тому +1

    Thank you for your excellent movie. Now I live in Kai Tak where Airport was there. New development works have been on going, I can not believe that Jets had come in for here just 20 yrs ago...

  • @ghostrider-be9ek
    @ghostrider-be9ek 2 роки тому +8

    This was an airport were boys became men - landing a 747 there in a stiff xwind, is about as shit hot as it gets in terms of piloting prowess.

  • @andyw248
    @andyw248 15 років тому +2

    Wow, that's a stunning compilation! I love watching airboyd's videos, but this redux version is really something that even my non-flying friends appreciate.

  • @mehmetokay7073
    @mehmetokay7073 2 роки тому +5

    The Alitalia MD-11 is nice.

  • @HEMI-MOMMA
    @HEMI-MOMMA 3 роки тому +1

    Ahhh... that NEVER gets old!!! 😜🤪

  • @jamesbrown-gg7dd
    @jamesbrown-gg7dd 8 років тому +41

    landing at kai tak was the best thing since my girlfriend invited ma to dinner and I stayed for breakfast

    • @cfcsteve86
      @cfcsteve86 8 років тому +4

      +james brown dont pretend like you have a girlfriend, unless youre referring to your hand

    • @mpaine
      @mpaine 5 років тому +1

      Cool story bro

    • @ARedMotorcycle
      @ARedMotorcycle 3 роки тому

      @@cfcsteve86 Wow, so edgy. Don't confuse your own teenage dry spell with somebody else's life. Quit projecting. It's not that hard to get a girlfriend.