1985 - Concorde arriving at Kai Tak
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Submitted by Cliff Atkins
Date picture taken (may be approximate):
Sunday, March 3, 1985
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- 1985 - Concorde arriving at Kai Tak shows Place Kai Tak Airfield / Airport [????- ]
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Nice Photo
Although taken more than 30 years ago, still a wonderful sight to behold.
The flight, BA9063C (registration: G-BOAA) arrived from Bangkok in a flight time of exactly 2 hours, landing Kai Tak at 11:17 a.m..It was a charter flight hired by Cunard to bring passengers in to join the QE2 on its round-the-world voyage.
The aircraft was the first Concorde delivered to British Airways and is now in a hangar at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune, Scotland.
Concorde
It was quite an event and when it left Kai Tak the following day the noise was ear splitting.
I never flew on Concorde but a few years ago I visited the pre-production 'testing' model currently based at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford in Cambridgeshire. I also used to see it when arriving or leaving Heathrow. In addition, friends lived under the Heathrow flight path in Putney and it was always something to go out into the garden to watch Concorde passing overhead.
Concorde noise level
I remember in the late 1980s my family lived in Heng Fa Chuen near Chai Wan, right under the flight path, with a jet taking off every three minutes, from about 7am right up to about 11.30pm. It was noisy enough as it was, but every time a Concorde took off, the noise was deafening. In fact, the aluminium window frames in my home would vibrate in resonance and sometimes even small articles placed on the window sill would start its own fribrillating dance.
breskvar
Taken at a Similar Vantage Point
Dusting off the cobwebs.
Concorde
Also a good photo - probably taken from the car park roof where I was standing along with a large crowd of people.