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Kai Tak video
On the Really Boring ... etc thread on JB, Rollingthunder has posted a video of Kai Tak in the days of steam powered aeroplanes.
http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/4163...mk-xv-155.html
At 1'54, a Viscount is taking off past something on the apron which I don't recognise. Any ideas?
http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/4163...mk-xv-155.html
At 1'54, a Viscount is taking off past something on the apron which I don't recognise. Any ideas?
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"Strangest sounding Viscounts that I've ever heard!"
Then have a look at this clip from that very well known film, made in 1960, directed by the celebrated Federico Fellini, I think, "La dolce vita."
YouTube - "Alitalia Viscount 745 & DC-7C & DC-6B"-1960
Then have a look at this clip from that very well known film, made in 1960, directed by the celebrated Federico Fellini, I think, "La dolce vita."
YouTube - "Alitalia Viscount 745 & DC-7C & DC-6B"-1960
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You are right. I was stationed at Kai Tak in the early fifties and there was a Beaufighter on strength at that time.
One day the Beau was departing runway 13 when halfway down the runway it swung ninety degrees shot through between a parked DC4 and some DC3's over the sea wall and into the harbour. Fortunately the crew were fished out of water unharmed, by the marine craft unit.
One day the Beau was departing runway 13 when halfway down the runway it swung ninety degrees shot through between a parked DC4 and some DC3's over the sea wall and into the harbour. Fortunately the crew were fished out of water unharmed, by the marine craft unit.
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Krakatoa, nice to see the old control tower. I, too was stationed at Kai Tak, '49 to '51, and usually strolled with a mate round the airfield on Sunday mornings for tea and toast in the little cafe at the control tower. Funny how we managed to get used to the smell of the fragrant harbour. Ah, happy days.
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Great clip - a bit before my time but when I was there in '68 the Cathay Pacific hostesses (not FAs in those days!) used the open air pool at RAF Kai Tak for liferaft drills. In spite of the fact they unsportingly wore track suits the event still usually managed to draw small crowd of onlookers 
No Brigands or Beaufighters there by then, but the hangar at Kai Tak was home to a late mark Griffon engined Spitfire which was ex 28 squadron at Sek Kong - I think the last operational Spitfire squadron - wonder where that a/c finished up?
No Brigands or Beaufighters there by then, but the hangar at Kai Tak was home to a late mark Griffon engined Spitfire which was ex 28 squadron at Sek Kong - I think the last operational Spitfire squadron - wonder where that a/c finished up?
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The Spitfire was, every year, taken over to the island on a barge and displayed outside City Hall during Battle of Britain week.
Taken in 1964.
Taken in 1964.
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