There was a thread running some time back that had a few guys threatening to do a midnight run to repaint Checkerboard.
It got me thinking that it would be interesting to go see what was left of it, if anything. First of all I had to find it!
Not have flown from Kai Tak, I had no familiarity with its exact location, but hey, it's big, got lots of red and white on it, and is stuck on the side of a hill. How hard could it be. Found a few pics on the web, tracked it down on Google earth, then google maps, that was the easy part. The challenge then was Hong Kong's love affair with road closures, construction, fences and "cannot"
Got there eventually, hope I can get these pics to actually appear.
Oh, as you can see, the painters still haven't got there
Touchdown zone just to the right of the tall building
Looking back up the Approach from standing on top
Or just maybe the painters DID arrive!!!
