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Typhoon damage at Kai Tak airport (3)

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2017-05-22 23:10
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1946
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Short Sunderland

Typhoon damage at Kai Tak airport (2)

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2017-05-22 23:09
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1946
Tags: 
kai tak
airplane
seaplane

Typhoon damage at Kai Tak airport (1)

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2017-05-22 23:05
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1946
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kai tak

Kai Tak smoker-B727 departing

Submitted by IDJ on Sun, 2017-04-02 20:25
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1966

It wasn't just the smoke from early jet airliners that was a problem it was also the ear piercing noise as they took off

2017Jan15 3.43pm old grave, Jardine's Lookout summit.jpg

Submitted by leungpk on Sat, 2017-02-04 23:56
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2017

A few feet from the trigonometry station at the summit of Jardine's Lookout, I found this old grave! Hard to believe, but it is true.

14 渣甸山頂下望維港.JPG

Submitted by leungpk on Sat, 2017-02-04 23:43
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2014

View of Victoria Harbour from Jardine's Lookout.

chipmunk.jpg

Submitted by Clive Hamilton on Sat, 2017-01-07 06:19
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1961

Mr. Robert Tai, a pilot with the Far East Flying Training School, about to take Clive Hamilton on a flight in a Chipmunk.

junior_jet_club_0002.jpg

Submitted by Clive Hamilton on Sat, 2017-01-07 06:19
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1961

A newspaper cutting of Clive Hamilton receiving his BOAC Junior Jet Club Certificate for 50,000 miles from Captain A. N. Moore.  Comet 4B in the background..  

pat_boone_0002.jpg

Submitted by Clive Hamilton on Sat, 2017-01-07 06:19
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1961

Pat Boone with possibly a Lillywhite on the left and Clive Hamilton on the right.  Pat Boone boarded the aircraft in Bangkok, much to the excitement of the air hostesses on board.  The aircraft was a BOAC Comet from London, one of the "Lollipop Specials" bringing childen from school in the UK to Hong Kong for their summer holidays.

RAF Hangar-postwar

Submitted by IDJ on Fri, 2016-12-16 15:47
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950
Places shown in this photo: 
RAF Kai Tak [????-????]

The exact position of the hangar can be determined by its relationship with the RAF Officers quarters on the hill.

Hangar on the right.

Probably around the Kowloon Bay MTR Station area

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