A special farewell to Kai Tak. Among the things I regret in life is to not have flown into Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport, and not having seen for myself those massive planes fly seemingly perilously close to the buildings of Kowloon — but at least this video does a pretty good job of illustrating the experience. The pilots who managed to get jumbo jets landed on that one runway… well, they earned their paychecks and then some!
Bits and rants from Tony Emond