Swissair Convair 990 into HKG - 1964

[akerosid]

Here's a superb video (in two parts) of Swissair CV990 operations into HKG; not many videos around (certainly this is the first I've seen) of actual CV990 operations and I haven't seen many from old Kai Tak of this vintage either.

Narration is in German, but not that hard to follow; plenty of superb footage, particularly in the second part (link at the end of the first):

YouTube - Swissair: Landung in Hongkong 1/2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH4bO4Ef6HY&NR=1)

Enjoy - it's a real gem!

[Sir George Cayley]

Sweet, but mostly filmed id der stimulator!

Nevertheless, a great fix for nostalgia junkies like moi.

Ta very much like

Sir George Cayley

[PLovett]

Ahh...and to think that I flew on one from Zurich to Heathrow in 1974. :ok:

Takes me back it does. :uhoh:

[forget]

I remember flying on Cathay's 880s in the '70s. I'm sure they were 5 abreast. Was the 990 the same cross section? :confused:

[akerosid]

I think so. Don't forget that CX was flying them on mostly regional flights then; I don't think they ever flew CV880s on flights of over 4h - no further north than Tokyo, or south than Singapore - don't think they ever went to Oz with jets until the 707s came along.

I always recall Spantax flying CV990s into Dublin, in the early 1980s - and I regret very much not having flown on them.

I think SR were about the last major carrier to fly 990s, and CX, among the last to fly 880s; both retired their fleets around '75.

[forget]

.. no further north than Tokyo, or south than Singapore.

They did go south to Jakarta, that's where I recall flying them from. I should've mentioned why I raised the 5 abreast question. Part 2 of the vid shows interior cabin which looks like 6 abreast. Maybe I'm seeing it wrong.

[pjac]

you're wrong there Akerosid-Cathay flew the 880s down to Perth via KUL and JKT. They also flew them to Calcutta.

[flash8]

thanks for that link - most enlightening... loved the part where the Captains son and daughter were playing on their "toy" simulator... completely dressed in all the regalia :)

[Postfade]

The arrival of the 'big jets' in the early 60's.
Here's a night time pic of Cathay's CV880M VR-HFS at Paya Lebar, Singapore in 1963.
http://www.davidtaylorsound.co.uk/share/Aircraft%20pics/NEW/Cathay%20CV880M%20VR-HFS%20-Paya%20Lebar%201963-S265B.jpg
I spent many hours gazing 'thro' the wire' at Paya Lebar at the Cathay and JAL 880's, the SAS/Thai, KLM and Alitalia DC-8s and the Qantas, Pan Am and BOAC 707's.
Here comes another-SAS Coronado SE-OAY on charter to Thai Airways, on approach to runway 20 at Paya Lebar in mid 1963.
http://www.davidtaylorsound.co.uk/share/Aircraft%20pics/NEW/SAS%20Thai%20%20Coronado%20SE-OAY-lands%20at%20Paya%20Lebar-1963-269A.jpg
Of course we were also saying goodbye to the Super Connie's and DC7's..the 'big props'.
David T