This video is a perfect representation of how many 747s there were in Asia 20-40 years ago. I took a trip to Bangkok in 99 and it was unbelievable. I think I flew on 6 separate 747s throughout the trip, including the elusive holy grail…the SP. I even got to fly on a little A310 to Phuket. It was such an incredible era for commercial aviation in that part of the world.
small territory, a lot of people. instead of hundreds of smaller aircraft for these trips, tens of big ones profiting more with correct seat configuration
those days. I was in there as an one of Japanese cabin attendant of CATHAY PACIFIC 1990year I ve transfered to British Airways. Thank You I am backing my young days. .
i flew into this airport around 35 yrs ago at night, this was my first time on a plane i remember seeing people in there buildings , i have never forgot that experience blew me away
I use to watch the planes take off and land while sitting on the Star Ferry Pier. I was told that every pilot who would fly into Kaita had to do special “drop n land”. Maneuvers.
@@abahni yes, you could go to the rooftop to bid farewell to the plane of your friends & relatives, & there were students doing self study at Kai Tak because of the air-conditioning. it's so human touch in the old days.
I was there from '72-75. I was shocked smells of air when I was first landed. We have to catch car ferry to cross Hong Kong Island. My friend dads company made first under harbor tunnel between Hong Kong to Kowloon. I went funeral of Bruce Lee at Tiger Balm gardens. My school was in a apartment building at Causeway Bay, right front of old Lee Garden Hotel. We lived near San Tin. Kai Tak Airport had Chinese restaurant who serves The Best Shark Fin Soup I ever had.
01:18 Note the Registration: ZK-NBS on a Cathay Pacific aircraft. This was actually Air New Zealand's first 747-400 and the aircraft still retained bits of their livery when it was leased to CX immediately after delivery.
Good old days of Hong Kong! I could see the plane approaching before the right turn from my classroom window & used to guess what's coming next...Haha. Thanks for bringing bk the good memories!
I will never forget flying into Kai Tak at 17 years old on Gulf Air, my aunt had described the apprach to me a year or so before and it was everything I anticipated. That was May 1988, arrived again in June 1993.
The old Hong Kong airport had those streets and buildings so close to it, it amazes me how anyone could've lived in those buildings. And seeing the old Hong Kong based Cathay Pacific, that airline had many flights from Hong Kong to Los Angeles and San Francisco, and also from Hong Kong to London and major cities in Europe.
Those buildings were part of the Kowloon walled city, and let's just say that they were... _messy_ Living conditions there were very bad, with a high poverty and crime rate. There was also an insane density, and police barely went to check there. The people who live there only did so because they couldn't afford going anywhere else
@@Orion8729 absolutely - terrible sad reality ... wanted to win billions so I would be able to change their lives from brutal to bearable ... a night landing, right side of the aircraft, was truly indefinable - frightening yet wonderful --- eternal Blessings to the passengers, particularly the flight crews, for the many incredible Kai Tak years !!!
Great video !! In the late 80's I once made a stop over in Hong Kong and the landing at KaiTak International Airport was a wonderful experience. I love the nostalgia in this video; Simply great !
I wasn't even an embryo in 1989 but I feel nostalgic watching this lol... Wish it was like today, how everyone has an HD camera in their pocket. Imagine the footage we would have of Kai Tak if we had smartphones back then :/
@@reignman40boozer5 I did some research and I discovered that JAL was one of the launcher airlines to buy a new version launched in the same year. For example, when the 747-100 was released in 1970, JAL already had some orders prior to the launching. In 1971, the situation wasn't different. In that year, Boeing released -200 version and JAL again was an launcher airline. And finally, when the -300 version was released in 1983, JAL only buyed his first model in 1986. About the -400, launched in 1989, JAL buyed in 1990. An intresting fact is that Japan Airlines, during the 2000s, was the largest 747 operator of the world, with 65 units, including all versions. When JAL finally retired his last 747 in March 2011, the position was overtaken by British Airways, with about 40 units, until today.
30 years later Kai Tak -> Chek Lao Kok. Dragonair was acquired by Cathay Pacific and finally renamed as Cathay Dragon. Canadian Airlines was acquired by Air Canada. ANA replaced Japan Airlines as the biggest aviation operator of Japan. United Airlines is still United Airlines.
Chan Ken Actually United Airlines isn’t the same one as 30 years ago either. It was merged with Continental Airlines and change to use their globe logo now.
My father used to fly transport planes into the old Hong Kong airport back in the 1950s and he said it was a difficult approach due to it being surrounded by tall buildings.
Thank you very much for sharing such a precious video. I live in different locations at Kowloon City for past 54 years. One of our home was under the signal lights. I was able to see the planes taking the sharp turning before landing and all the way touching the runway at Kai Tak Airport from my bedroom and also my classrooms at school. Those exciting and unforgettable moments of the airplanes landed during typhoons, wind shears and days with bad weather, of course, also the days with beautiful weather. This videos brought me back fond memories. Thank you again.
Great times back then.I also was lucky enough to fly into Kai Tak in 1998 before its closure.1. time on a MD-11, 2. time on a 747-300 both Swissair...the only thing that came to my mind was WOW....Sadly all long gone
I was in Hong Kong in 1989 for vacation and I remember plane spotting here from the roof of the parking garage of the Regal airport hotel it was awesome! The 747-400 was brand new and was all the rage. We would mostly see CX 747’s and L-1011s with the occasional and very loud Dragonair 737-200s
Konishi Wa .. I am glad you made this Video in 1989 .. It was THE Time . I am from 1979 .. I Love the 80S so much .. My Fater used to Fly all over the World in Jumbo Jets .. I Love it so much .. I need this Feeling again and again from that Time ..
In 1:17 the 747-400 had a slightly different livery to the other 747s in the Cathay Pacific fleet. It is because the plane was leased from Air New Zealand (note its ZK registration instead of the VR that is used by aircraft registered in British Hong Kong).
I remember in the 1950's before they extended the Runway. They used to close the road with a barrier so the planes could land or take off ! Does anyone have a film of that period ?
01:17 Wow ZK-NBS in a Cathay Livery. Seems that this video was taken at Dec "89. She was the first 747-400 for Air New Zealand, but served for Cathay from 1989 to 1991, until I know.
I remember going to HK in 1990 for our honeymoon and had dinner in Kowloon City in a restaurant that is right under the flight path for planes coming in to land. The door of the restaurant would swing open and then slam shut from the noise and vibration every time an aircraft flew over us coming to land at Kai Tak Airport. After dinner we walked to an area looking straight onto the runway with a wire fence separating the plane spotters and the runway. Nostalgic times! Thanks for the video.
I remember that I flown to Kai Tak in the 80s on a United Airlines 747-100 and it’s give me a lots of memories, now I still remember it. But now it’s was closed. I was really sad at that time because old Kai Tak give me the most memories in my aviation life
I experienced the landing at this adventurous airport thrice in 1993 and 1994. Once a plane of an Airline overshot runway. Wonderful memories of yesterdays
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香港啓徳空港。味わいのある大好きな空港でした。
今は無きカイタッククウコウ 懐かしいです 香港カーブやビルの谷間をすり抜けるような飛行コース 着陸してすぐ逆噴射急ブレーキ
陽が沈んでから着陸。飛行機の窓の外ビルの明かりの中を飛んでいるような感じで 俺、空を飛んでるんだと唯一感じられる空港でした 九龍城砦も取り壊しされたし 古き良き時代が次々と消えて行くのが寂しいです
This video is a perfect representation of how many 747s there were in Asia 20-40 years ago. I took a trip to Bangkok in 99 and it was unbelievable. I think I flew on 6 separate 747s throughout the trip, including the elusive holy grail…the SP. I even got to fly on a little A310 to Phuket. It was such an incredible era for commercial aviation in that part of the world.
small territory, a lot of people. instead of hundreds of smaller aircraft for these trips, tens of big ones profiting more with correct seat configuration
カイタック国際空港の香港アプローチは迫力満点で飛行機マニアにはたまりません!!☺️貴重な映像ありがとうございます!!☺️
いい映像ですね。町の上空を旋回して着陸していくというとても珍しい空港でした。懐かしいデザインの飛行機も見ていて楽しかったです。
those days.
I was in there as an one of Japanese cabin attendant of CATHAY PACIFIC
1990year I ve transfered to British Airways.
Thank You
I am backing my young days. .
i flew into this airport around 35 yrs ago at night, this was my first time on a plane i remember seeing people in there buildings , i have never forgot that experience blew me away
cobar1954 me too!1997
cobar1954 yep same here, first holiday abroad in 1985
My first flight was like 2014 lol was a pretty standard experience lol
涙が出るほど懐かしい塗装、機体たち。ありがとうございます😭
懐かしいですね！ 1989年、私はまだ10歳でした。父は私を赤と白の四角い山、啓徳空港の展望台、観塘埠頭の防波堤によく連れて行って、飛行機の離着陸を眺めました。あっという間に35年が経ちました。啓徳空港は1998年以来25年近く閉鎖されている。残念ながら、私は生まれるのが遅すぎたので、啓徳空港の滑走路 13 番と 31 番のエレベーターを運転する機会がありませんでした。この伝説的な空港は、多くの内陸空港に比べて小さいですが、旅客と貨物の輸送量では世界最高の空港の一つにランクされています。現在では、模擬コックピットでのみ体験することができます。
The ol' checkerboard approach IGS 13 (Instrument Guidance System). Loved it back in the 1980s.
I flew into this airport back in 1980 on a Korean air lines 747-200 and still remember that hard right bank turn. It was so awesome!
I use to watch the planes take off and land while sitting on the Star Ferry Pier.
I was told that every pilot who would fly into Kaita had to do special “drop n land”. Maneuvers.
香港啓徳空港は２回利用しました。最初に着陸する時、噂には聞いていましたが、右へ左へと旋回するたびに大きく傾き、外を見ると映像のように、ビルまたはマンションの屋上スレスレの真上を通過して着陸。今は移設したとのことですが貴重な体験でした。
この迫力ある光景が見られなくなったのは残念ですよね。
1:34から映るボーイング747の機体番号はJA8101なので、日本航空のジャンボの第１号機ですね。
Hong Kong in the 1980s was a very memorable time. I miss Hong Kong so much that its unique Chinese and Western culture changed in 1997.❤️
harry potter Harley I miss it too but it was the mid 90s for me. I did go back last year. ❤️
Agree...Hong Kong today is a far cry from the heydays of the 80-90s. Kai Tak personality could never be duplicated
We use to call it Heaven on Earth.
@@abahni yes, you could go to the rooftop to bid farewell to the plane of your friends & relatives, & there were students doing self study at Kai Tak because of the air-conditioning. it's so human touch in the old days.
I was there from '72-75. I was shocked smells of air when I was first landed. We have to catch car ferry to cross Hong Kong Island. My friend dads company made first under harbor tunnel between Hong Kong to Kowloon. I went funeral of Bruce Lee at Tiger Balm gardens. My school was in a apartment building at Causeway Bay, right front of old Lee Garden Hotel. We lived near San Tin.
Kai Tak Airport had Chinese restaurant who serves The Best Shark Fin Soup I ever had.
懐かしいカイタック空港！着陸の時、横のマンションのお家の中でテレビついてるのが見えるくらい近いんですよね。
That's just a myth not really true
@@RaresCosiI think she has really landed to Kai Tak Airport
フライングタイガー、懐かしいです。30年振りに見ました。当時はIAHでコクピットに入れてもらった最初で最後の飛行機です。
こんなに色んな航空会社のジャンボが九龍地区のビル群スレスレで香港カーブを得て啓徳国際空港に着陸するのは今では見れない光景✨
ノースウェストカーゴとか懐かし過ぎ😂
啓徳の主はキャセイのトライスターと言うイメージですが、16:15からの青い全日空のトライスターも懐かしくて良いですね。
全日空もまた啓徳と言えばトライスターで、アジアの2大トライスターユーザーの共演は他には成田と伊丹のイメージです。
貴重な動画をありがとうございます！この頃は外国や飛行機にほとんど縁が無かったので、凄いと思います。啓徳は2回利用した位でしたが、本当に市街の上を飛んでいましたね。
01:18 Note the Registration: ZK-NBS on a Cathay Pacific aircraft. This was actually Air New Zealand's first 747-400 and the aircraft still retained bits of their livery when it was leased to CX immediately after delivery.
You know it's good time when Cathay Pacific has Union Jack in their plane tail
Good old days of Hong Kong! I could see the plane approaching before the right turn from my classroom window & used to guess what's coming next...Haha. Thanks for bringing bk the good memories!
This video was made when I was born... It is absolutely awesome! Thank you for sharing.
I will never forget flying into Kai Tak at 17 years old on Gulf Air, my aunt had described the apprach to me a year or so before and it was everything I anticipated. That was May 1988, arrived again in June 1993.
747 after 747 and all perfect landings!!! Gotta love the arrow air dc 8
@ATCkeepsUsafe um.... I don't think the 777 has 4 engines.
@ATCkeepsUsafe Plus, arrow air didn't even had a 777 according to wikipedia
@ATCkeepsUsafe you are stupid moron thats dc8, you dont know about airoplanes.
ATCkeepsUsafe You must feel pretty stupid, learn about airplanes you dumb shit
ATCkeepsUsafe r u stupid, he is correct
今となってはかなり貴重な映像ですね
You never forget your first flight into Hong Kong Kai-Tak, or any other arrival and departure there for that matter.
When I was youn ,everyday heard the sound of the plane
The old Hong Kong airport had those streets and buildings so close to it, it amazes me how anyone could've lived in those buildings. And seeing the old Hong Kong based Cathay Pacific, that airline had many flights from Hong Kong to Los Angeles and San Francisco, and also from Hong Kong to London and major cities in Europe.
Those buildings were part of the Kowloon walled city, and let's just say that they were... _messy_ Living conditions there were very bad, with a high poverty and crime rate. There was also an insane density, and police barely went to check there. The people who live there only did so because they couldn't afford going anywhere else
@@Orion8729 absolutely - terrible sad reality ... wanted to win billions so I would be able to change their lives from brutal to bearable ... a night landing, right side of the aircraft, was truly indefinable - frightening yet wonderful --- eternal Blessings to the passengers, particularly the flight crews, for the many incredible Kai Tak years !!!
Great video !!
In the late 80's I once made a stop over in Hong Kong and the landing at KaiTak International Airport was a wonderful experience.
I love the nostalgia in this video; Simply great !
I wasn't even an embryo in 1989 but I feel nostalgic watching this lol...
Wish it was like today, how everyone has an HD camera in their pocket.
Imagine the footage we would have of Kai Tak if we had smartphones back then :/
In 1:31 appear the FIRST 747 of Japan Airlines, it's a 747-100, registration JA8101, delivered in April 1970!
Yeah! Classic 747-100 :) Now this bird was scrapped :(
@@nipafilms236 But may God blessed him while flying in all those years
I could be wrong or mixing them up.. but after that they show a -200, -300 then a -400..
@@reignman40boozer5 I did some research and I discovered that JAL was one of the launcher airlines to buy a new version launched in the same year. For example, when the 747-100 was released in 1970, JAL already had some orders prior to the launching. In 1971, the situation wasn't different. In that year, Boeing released -200 version and JAL again was an launcher airline. And finally, when the -300 version was released in 1983, JAL only buyed his first model in 1986. About the -400, launched in 1989, JAL buyed in 1990.
An intresting fact is that Japan Airlines, during the 2000s, was the largest 747 operator of the world, with 65 units, including all versions. When JAL finally retired his last 747 in March 2011, the position was overtaken by British Airways, with about 40 units, until today.
747-146SF JA8101 delivered to Haneda 22/04/1970, remember that day, I was just 10 years old.
Thanks for capturing the memories!
懐かしい飛行機たち。エンジンが細いなぁ
Loved to see those planes making sharp right turns before landing.
Thanks for uploading
747-400 was brand new plane than in 1989 great footage
Beautiful retro liveries...
30 years later
Kai Tak -> Chek Lao Kok.
Dragonair was acquired by Cathay Pacific and finally renamed as Cathay Dragon.
Canadian Airlines was acquired by Air Canada.
ANA replaced Japan Airlines as the biggest aviation operator of Japan.
United Airlines is still United Airlines.
Chan Ken Actually United Airlines isn’t the same one as 30 years ago either. It was merged with Continental Airlines and change to use their globe logo now.
ATCkeepsUsafe that wasn’t a Boeing 787 lol the Boeing 787 wasn’t even a thing till like 2012 not to sure
@@adamd6648 I think he meant the empennage & APU exhaust. Looks kinda conical to me, but still doesn't really much like it.
@ATCkeepsUsafe A300
As for ANA, I'm not suprised, their service is better than JAL, for roughly the same price.
Respect to all Pilot's 💙💙💙💙💙
My father used to fly transport planes into the old Hong Kong airport back in the 1950s and he said it was a difficult approach due to it being surrounded by tall buildings.
ジャンボ全盛ですね！いい時代でした！
いいポジションで撮影されましたね。いい映像をありがとうございます。
I was gonna say the same thing!
Thank you very much for sharing such a precious video. I live in different locations at Kowloon City for past 54 years. One of our home was under the signal lights. I was able to see the planes taking the sharp turning before landing and all the way touching the runway at Kai Tak Airport from my bedroom and also my classrooms at school. Those exciting and unforgettable moments of the airplanes landed during typhoons, wind shears and days with bad weather, of course, also the days with beautiful weather. This videos brought me back fond memories. Thank you again.
14:28からＪＡＬの二代目鶴丸カラーのB767が登場していますが、当時もＪＡＬは国際線にもB767飛ばしていたのですね！
昔に何回か降りた空港
パイロットの腕の見せ所
離着陸する時に住宅に
干してる洗濯物のガラが
判断が出来るほどギリギリの高度で着陸時の機体角度は右角度前輪が付くと進行方向に戻し逆噴射しフルブレーキで減速
当時の747機体は航空機関士が乗務してましたね
Those Cathay tristars are amazing,shame I wasn't alive when they were in service:/
Great times back then.I also was lucky enough to fly into Kai Tak in 1998 before its closure.1. time on a MD-11, 2. time on a 747-300 both Swissair...the only thing that came to my mind was WOW....Sadly all long gone
This film is particularly valuable.
Could judge from the cloudy sky
that it was near June 4.
This is not just a video, it is an historical video document. Very nice to see.
Great memories! I miss the old Kai Tak😢
Good old time both for the airport and the city.
1:26 China Airlines in the back with a ROC flag on the tail.
多謝你日本朋友！
香港人
Back then, long haul, twin engined aircraft were the exception. Today, they're the rule.
The real nightmare was 12 hrs to Heathrow on BA 1980's Economy
おお、キャセイにユニオンジャックが。懐かしいです。
I was in Hong Kong in 1989 for vacation and I remember plane spotting here from the roof of the parking garage of the Regal airport hotel it was awesome! The 747-400 was brand new and was all the rage. We would mostly see CX 747’s and L-1011s with the occasional and very loud Dragonair 737-200s
The dominance of 747. Heaven.
Great footage with good quality. Thanks for sharing
This smokey DC-8 is lovely!
Thank you, you've captured my memory!
Great footage, I used to fly into Kai Tak on Air New Zealand Boeing 747-200 and 747-400 liners, back then we were allowed up into the cockpit!
Konishi Wa .. I am glad you made this Video in 1989 .. It was THE Time . I am from 1979 .. I Love the 80S so much .. My Fater used to Fly all over the World in Jumbo Jets .. I Love it so much .. I need this Feeling again and again from that Time ..
HURRICANE I agree I flew commercially for the first time in 1989 on a dc10 USAir what a great time for everything especially aviation
Kai tuk airport when the plane landing down to this ground .it make me exciting everytimes.
Now, that´s roots! Old school landing at its finest!
いいですね。
That airport and that city was a classic and a one in a kind.
1:27, Ahh back then the 744 was brand new
Amazing footage! Love seeing the Arrow Air DC-8! Thanks for sharing :D
When in video
only certain captains on planes could fly in to kai tak because of it difficulties x
Thanks. Great 👍 classic memories.
Famous HK sights once known around the world. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
My dad was a soldier in Hong Kong in the 1990s, He lived under the approach path of Kai Tak.
The time when just about everybody used the 747 in and around Hong Kong.
I'm always on the lookout for video of Kaitak - haven't seen this one until now!! My God - the parade of 747s is incredible.
In 1:17 the 747-400 had a slightly different livery to the other 747s in the Cathay Pacific fleet. It is because the plane was leased from Air New Zealand (note its ZK registration instead of the VR that is used by aircraft registered in British Hong Kong).
キャセイの進入路は他社に比べ高度を低く取っているようですね。建物の看板まではっきり見えるぐらいですね。キャセイのパイロットにしたら知り尽くした空港なのでしょうね。個人的には、12:25付近からのL1011が好きです！最後の方の全日空の『トライスター』も好きでした！でも最後に結構機首をあげてますね。
I remember in the 1950's before they extended the Runway. They used to close the road with a barrier so the planes could land or take off ! Does anyone have a film of that period ?
yes please
747-400とDC-8
まるで時代が入り乱れてるようですね笑
01:17 Wow ZK-NBS in a Cathay Livery. Seems that this video was taken at Dec "89. She was the first 747-400 for Air New Zealand, but served for Cathay from 1989 to 1991, until I know.
3:13 I bet that UAL 747 was brand new back then!
Beautiful City of Hong Kong and the international airport Kai Tak
今は無き、香港カーブ。見たかったなぁ～。★×5。
Nao thank you.Very nice.Hey,from Russia.
ウクライナ🇺🇦！😡⚡
Awesome classics spotting
I remember going to HK in 1990 for our honeymoon and had dinner in Kowloon City in a restaurant that is right under the flight path for planes coming in to land. The door of the restaurant would swing open and then slam shut from the noise and vibration every time an aircraft flew over us coming to land at Kai Tak Airport. After dinner we walked to an area looking straight onto the runway with a wire fence separating the plane spotters and the runway. Nostalgic times! Thanks for the video.
I remember that I flown to Kai Tak in the 80s on a United Airlines 747-100 and it’s give me a lots of memories, now I still remember it. But now it’s was closed. I was really sad at that time because old Kai Tak give me the most memories in my aviation life
Great video of old Kai Tak. Thanks for uploading.
The B744 @ 8:26 was delivered to CAL in 1990, so this must have been shot after 1989.
A legendary airport thank you very much for your very beautiful video ❤😊
0:49 Cathay Pacific's old liverie
What dangerous airport ! In the middle of mountains and those terrible comunist buildings !!! What tremendous ! A very good piece of history !! Thanks
I LOVE this ... :) Especially the 747 400 !
Look at all that old metal! I love it! Thanks for sharing!
Kai tak airport is amazing
Stunningly beautiful footage! =D
好懷念的以前的飛機及機場，尤其是政權尚未回歸前的香港~廣東話~香港電視劇~好多好多~回憶。
いろんな飛行機いっぱい来てたんだー
I experienced the landing at this adventurous airport thrice in 1993 and 1994. Once a plane of an Airline overshot runway. Wonderful memories of yesterdays
wow..this is a rare video..thanks for uploading