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I was a tower controller for a year at Kai Tak and then for 2 years at CLK. These are some great shots. I always marveled at how much punishment a 747 could absorb on landing! Landing slots were restricted and that's why most operations were heavies. Maximum load per slot.

@mountainstartemple6041

Жыл бұрын

"Maximum load per slot" ~ why that is not a popular phrase is beyond me!

@jimcosklo701

Жыл бұрын

I've always been curious as to why Kai Tak footage always had so many wide body aircraft compared to other international hubs from the same time period. When you say that there were restricted landing slots, does that mean that only "x" number of narrow body aircraft were allowed at one time? Or would the airlines just have to pay a larger fee to land smaller aircraft? Also, was this just due to the limited number of parking stands? Thank you in advance!

@manifestgtr

9 ай бұрын

@@jimcosklo701 Kai Tak wasn’t a particularly large airport…even though I don’t know 100%, I can basically guarantee that it means there was a comparatively limited number of operations in and out of the airport for any given period of time so airlines would fly the largest equipment in their fleet that the facilities could handle due to “only X number of flights going in and out of Hong Kong”.

This Channel is super underrated and needs more followers & viewers because this is what nostalgia & childhood is really all about.

@aviationin4k258

3 жыл бұрын

Very true

Just look at all of those 747s and assorted tri-holers. I'm in heaven. :)

@fsega3669

3 жыл бұрын

%100 agree on that

@CameTo

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah man, that was something, another time

@APW_Manbow

2 жыл бұрын

Sure. JUST "Japan Universal System Transport" 747F JA8160 was landing in this video. it's very lare.

@jovanholland36

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@armoredgaming2352

2 жыл бұрын

Overhyped mid aircraft that would die in today’s economy. L + Ratio

00:09 Japan Airlines B767-346 (JA8264) 00:35 China Airlines B747-SP (N4522V) 01:20 JUST Japan Universal System Transport B747-221F/SCD (JA8160) 02:13 Korean Air B747-4B5 (HL7493) 02:27 Philippine Airlines A300B4-203 (RP-C3005) 02:41 ANA B747-281B (JA8181) 03:28 Japan Airlines MD-11 (JA8581) 04:11 Cathay Pacific L-1011 04:16 Qantas B767 04:26 Vietnam Airlines B767-281B (VH-RMA) 05:10 Cathay Pacific L-1011-385-1-14 TriStar 100 (VR-HHK) 05:26 Korean Air B747-2B5F/SCD (HL7459) 05:57 Thai Airways International A300 06:23 Varig Brasil MD-11 (PP-VPL) 06:59 Philippine Airlines B747-4F6 (N751PR) 07:22 Martinair B747-21AC/SCD (PH-MCF) 07:31 Lufthansa B747-430(D-ABTF) 07:56 Royal Brunei B757-2M6 (V8-RBC) 08:20 China Eastern Airlines MD-82 (B-21??) 08:44 Korean Air B747SP-B5 (HL7456) 09:14 Mandarin Airlines B747SP-09 (N4508H) 09:37 Qantas B767-338/ER (VH-OGL) 10:07 British Airways B747-436 (G-BNLZ) 10:24 Thai Airways International A330-321 (HS-TEC) 10:45 Xiamen Airlines B757-25C (B-2829) 11:15 Aeroflot A310-308 (F-OGQT) 11:45 Japan Airlines B747-446 12:13 Malaysia Airlines B747-236B(SF) (9M-MHJ) 12:45 Singapore Airlines B747-412 (9V-SMU) 13:53 Japan Airlines B767 14:36 Japan Airlines DC-10-40 (JA8545) 15:04 Korean Air B747SP-B5 (HL7456) 15:26 China Airlines B747-412 (3B-SMC) 15:52 FEDEX B747F (Flying Tiger paint) 16:17 Japan Airlines B747-246B (JA8122) 16:49 United Airlines B747-422 (N187UA) 16:59 China Airlines B747-SP (N4522V) 17:26 Garuda Indonesia DC-10-30 (PK-GIA) 17:43 Canadian Airlines B747-475 (C-FCRA) 18:04 Korean Air B747-249F/SCD (HL7401) 18:35 Air Hongkong B747 18:56 Japan Airlines B747-212B(SF) (JA8193) 19:29 China Airlines B747-SP (N4522V) 19:41 Swissair MD-11 (HB-IWK) 20:02 Air New Zealand B747-219B (ZK-NZZ) 20:29 Vietnam Airlines A320 20:59 Kalitta Air B747-238B(SF) (N706CK) 21:21 Thai Airways International A300 21:33 Garuda Indonesia A300 21:42 China Airlines A320-231 21:49 Delta MD-11 22:04 Ansett Australia B747-312 (VH-INJ) 22:27 United Airlines B747-400 22:37 Singapore Airlines B747-412 (9V-SMF) 23:00 Canadian Airlines DC-10-30 23:19 British Airways B747-436 (G-CIVA) 23:46 Dragonair A320-231 24:00 Air China B747-4J6 (B-2443) 24:14 Philippine Airlines B747-200 24:30 China Eastern Airlines A300B4-605R (B-2307) 24:58 China Eastern Airlines MD-11 (B-2175) 25:18 Air France B747-4B3M (F-GEXB) 25:48 ANA B747-481B 26:16 Dragonair L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1 (VR-HOD) 26:45 Cathay Pacific B747-200

@ILoveQazaqstan

3 жыл бұрын

I love how the DC-10s, MD-11s, and A320 have co existed. Tells how old the 320s really are

@tomhammer4589

3 жыл бұрын

@@ILoveQazaqstan 03:29 is MD-11 JAL(JA8581) 1993/DEC - 2002/AUG //UPS(N271UP) 2002/AUG - still flying.

@ILoveQazaqstan

3 жыл бұрын

@@tomhammer4589 oh sorry

@joeychan6300

3 жыл бұрын

Quite hard to believe that the Boeing 747 takes up almost half of the planes operating in Kai Tak Airport back then. Today’s economy will no longer allow a jumbo jet centered aviation environment. Times have really changed.

@beetlerace7351

3 жыл бұрын

The Korean air 747 was shot down near usa or Korea forgot the facts tho but the same plane and registered number crashed

I was lucky to have had the experience of flying in and out of Kai Tak. It's something you'll never forget! It was also incredible walking along a dense Hong Kong streets and hearing the roar of a jet approaching. You'd look up just in time to see a massive jumbo flying incredibly low and casting a dark shadow over the streets. Great memories!

That Varig MD-11 is about the most beautiful airliner I've ever seen.

@michaell1751

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Proper old school type of livery

@brucewayne3602

3 жыл бұрын

ahhmennn !!!

@wakeupcall2665

3 жыл бұрын

The routing was GRU-GIG-JNB-BKK-HKG back then

@BrunoMalan

Жыл бұрын

It's classic, we love it, but there are a lot of errors in the pov of those who work with branding. The placement of symbols on the fuselage is incorrect, the thickness of cheatlines varied greatly between different planes, and the shade of blue is too dull.

@tngbrayden4472

Жыл бұрын

@@wakeupcall2665 oh? was this a regularly scheduled flight? also why the weird routing

it’s so interesting to see how many airlines have changed their liveries since (UA seems changed the most), and how many have the same (ANA, Korean, Singapore), but those don’t seem to look old/outdated and just work very well with the brand

@andrewwakldnz

3 жыл бұрын

I think Vietnam is the most striking change. New livery is among the best out there.

@blueskiesflyer

2 жыл бұрын

Philippine Airlines, Air China and Kalitta still have the same liveries as well

Yes, the good old days flying into the old Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport...It was so nice.....We old DC-10s flying into there from Los Angeles and San Francisco...And yes the 747s were great flying there. And the Concorde flew in to this crazy old airport... Wow!!!! Life was so good back then...

I did some plane spotting at Kai Tak. I was living there at the time and a friend, who did plane spotting, came to visit. Watched from the end of the runway. We also went to the target on the mountain where planes flew to before turning to the runway. Every plane looked like it was going to crash into you, they looked so close before turning. Loved the airport, land and be home in minutes.

Wow! At 4:41 B767 Vietnam Airlines in old livery. So simple but beautiful!

I flew into Kai Tek as a passenger for the first time in 1976. That's a memory I will never forget.

@henryzhang6489

3 жыл бұрын

especially can see the people watching TV at home or hanging clothes. It was so close

@jabirujoe5206

3 жыл бұрын

@@henryzhang6489 Spot on mate. That's exactaly what I was talking about.

I didn't realise just how many MD-11s were flying as passenger planes back then

@therealsnow

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah pretty sure the majority of MD-11 freighters flying today started out hauling passengers.

@Roboseal2

3 ай бұрын

Well yeah because the 777 wasn't finished being built yet.

I took Qantas flights (shuttle between Hong Kong and Bangkok) in Jan / Feb 1995, so that I have the honor to take off and landing at Kai Tak International Airport. The experience is so impressive and amazing, especially when I felt I could touch the building below the wing tips. About 12 years later, I paid for flying in a A320 professional simulator in a HK shopping mall and I selected to land at Kai Tai, which is the first time I know how hard to land there. Great place, Great Hong Kong. Sad for its falling.

Thanks for bringing back some great memories of the most exciting airport and city back in the "good old days"! I lived in Asia for ten years and flew in and out of Kai Tak numerous times. Landings were never boring.🤣. Once, on a Thai 747 we hit the runway so hard that the oxygen masks deployed and the overhead storage bins popped open. When you came in over Kowloon and made that hard right turn it looked as if you could reach out and snatch the drying laundry right off of the balconies. I really like seeing films shot from an aircraft coming in for a landing at Kai Tak. It's always worth seeing. 👍❤✈

9:35 This is my first time to see and know there is 747SP, that's cute :D

I remember my 1st flight into Kai Tak (May, 1993). I was in a starboard window seat and could see women 150 ft below me hanging out their laundry on apartment building rooftops as we made that right-ward banking turn to line up with the runway. Damn cool!

Visited only once but had the full approach twice and the pleasure of a very late go-around. That 747 went up like a homesick angel, wow!

one note interest is that, I noticed Cathay Pacific is flying quite near to the Kowloon Tong side when I observed from the rooftop of my house. It is just so obsessing to watch those big birds flying beneath a big city like Hong Kong when I was a kid😆😊. Very nostalgic!!

Besides the sights which of course was amazing, the SOUND of the takeoffs when I arrived and left the terminal was AMAZING - just standing in line waiting for a taxi while the roar of the heavies overhead sent chills down my spine. I miss Kai Tak .. at least was able to see it one last time at the 1997 Handover.

Got to fly there once on a Thai 747. I was 12 and didn’t realize how special it was!

@kyraaa564

7 ай бұрын

Lucky☹️

It's one heck of an airport! THANK YOU for sharing and filming.

Loved seeing some classic liveries and classic aircraft, especially the 767 - always loved flying on those.

@patrickmollohan3082

2 жыл бұрын

Those are still widely used today. I agree about flying on them. I had to fly from CLT to PIT once. USAir used 737's mostly for that route bc they are only about an hour apart not air. Well I got on the plane and it was friggin huge!! Been drinking in a bar and didnt see the plane out the window at night. The FA took me to my sear. Ir looked endless, 9-10 seats wide. There was maybe 10 pax on the plane. I had my own FA. I asked him why such a big plane? He said "bc when we land in PIT, the plane will be restocked and refueled and then it's going to Paris"....lol!!

Just fabulous !! Thanks for sharing this video

Kai tak the beat show on earth ever

I love seeing all the old 747's still in good shape and flying back then, they were still widely used at that time (100-300 models). I also love seeing the Tristars, as there is now only 1 of those planes that can fly now in the entire world.

@patrickmollohan3082

2 жыл бұрын

Really? I didn't know that.✈✈

@rickster100100

10 ай бұрын

Who’s flying that TriStar what company or Airline?

@davidca96

10 ай бұрын

@@rickster100100 Its called the Stargazer its a modified 1011 that has a telescope in it. I dont know if NASA or a private company owns it though, but its the only 1011 that can still fly. It isnt flown a lot so its hours are low and its kept out of the elements, so its still in great shape.

@rickster100100

10 ай бұрын

@@davidca96 Wow! Many thanks for that response. I flew one back in the 80s. It was a Delta Airlines TriStar. ✨🔥✈️

@davidca96

10 ай бұрын

​@@rickster100100You bet, I am jealous you got to fly them they are one of my favorite planes ever produced. They were so far ahead of their time, as a pilot im sure you loved flying the most advanced plane at that time. Did you ever let the plane autoland or did Delta make you manually land? I always wondered how well the autoland worked, it was one if not the first true autoland capable passenger planes.

Wow, it's so nice and pleasant to see the classic videos posted. Thanks to the uploader 😁👍🇬🇾🇧🇧

@RunwayAction

3 жыл бұрын

Very welcome Charles!

Favourite video. Love this

Dangerous airport. And yes the video we all been waiting for

@RunwayAction

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Got to see planes I wouldn't normally view in action especially the Queens of the air. Brilliant footage!

@RunwayAction

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Cheryl

In 1999 I flew with my girlfriend with cathy pacific from frankfurt to Hong Kong and at that time did not know that Kai Tak was already closed and that we would land at Chek Lap Kok airport. What a shame l was so happy....

Great to see so many 747's (including several SP's), DC-10's and L-1011's. Nice trip down memory lane seeing several now-defunct airlines 👍

THX , thats my home town , I left back in 1983 ! I miss that !

Loved this. Proper aircraft.

Brings back lots of memories. I was in the RAF at Kai Tak 1975-7 and had a room with a view across the airport so was able to photograph most of the types and airlines which passed through.

@bb8bb832

11 ай бұрын

maybe it was the same room i had ? Stationed at Kai Tak 1964 to 1968

I was working for a company in the uk, that was supplying all the ticketing machineson the metro between Kai tak and HK.

Aeroflot landing was smooth as silk

11:14 Это один из самых красивых самолетов Аэрофлота.

Ah the old days! I flew in and out of Kai Tak a few times in the late 90s - what an experience! I flew Virgin on the A340s and Philippine Airlines (not sure which aicraft). Happy memories of less complicated flying and times

747SP overload! Love it!

Great little video guys

24:14 Didn't expect to see a PAL 747-200 here. Love it!

thank you for uploading

@RunwayAction

3 жыл бұрын

Very welcome!

How nice! いいですね！

Its so cool to see how operations were there. I wonder how hard it actually is to loop around that mountain. I would love to see it reopen and watch some operations. But we're lucky that you got this on camera before it closed. Edit: that FedEx 747 gives me nostalgia

It's hard to forget that strong smell of sea water when the plane touched down on the runway at night back in 1983. When I left HK to emigrate to oversea in 1986, the airport was still in use.

@stuartb3609

2 жыл бұрын

That wasn’t just sea water. A story I have heard about the comedian Spike Milligan landing there. He asks ‘What is that smell?’. A crew member replies ‘That is sh!t Mr Milligan’. Spike says ‘I know it’s sh!t, but what’s it doing in the plane?’. 😁

Such an amazing video absolutely incredible thanks so much love and God bless x

@RunwayAction

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Wendy!

Wow Garuda Indonesia DC 17:26 A300 21:35 old livery, nice airport but Dangerous

Brings back memories. I've spent a little time on top of that parking garage, or multi-level car park as they call it. You can see the humidity. Bringing your camera out of an airconditioned hotel or car or bus would immediately fog up everything inside and out. I thought of making putting a bottle of hot water into an ice chest to preheat the camera, but I never did it. I wish there were some wide shots of the approach to show how close the buildings were. Those were the days, when lots of my customers were in Hong Kong. Now they're in China, so I land at the new airport and take a boat to Shenzhen. Or at least I did pre-covid.

Very good history info 👍 😘

747SP! Nice! Also nice to see my favorite, an L-1011. Don't think there are too many of those still flying, and this was almost 30 years ago.

Nice video!

Love the JUST 747F!

As an Australian travelling around the globe, there was nothing as exciting as the final turn to line up for the runway. Later in my career, I had the privilege of working on the new Hong Kong airport. Long live the Queen of the Skies.

Also Got Exiting When We see old kaitak Airport spotting, for those who fly there are thrilled always.

Beautiful

26 Years Later since today was when it closed down, Kai tak was truly remarkable for it’s steep approach and diversity of aircraft and besides it probably was way Ahead of it’s time

I remember landing there and when the plane I was on made it’s turn back to the terminal there was a plane stuck in the mudflat at the end of the runway. The authorities had the tail assembly cut off so they could resume operations. Loved old Hong Kong, NYC without rules.

I flew in and out of Kai Tak numerous times in the 90s, usually up to 17hr + flights from London with a refuelling stop somewhere in the middle east, the only thrilling part was the landing, even in inclement weather, the only time I remember the runway closing was in 1993 during tropical storm Ira when a China Airlines 747 skidded off the end of the runway, fortunately there were no fatalities, it's not the same landing at CLK, what wonderful memories this video brings ❤

I still have this on VHS, plus a whole bunch of other JustPlanes videos.

trijet, quad jets, have become more and more of a rare sight in today's airport

Kinda fun to look at the old planes😢

Wow just wow

Im genuinly surprised for how many planes were powered by PW back then... Nowadays its mostly a320neos

Surprised To See Lot Of 747SP's , from Korean and Air china,JAL Ones.

@Lagmire

3 жыл бұрын

Such a cool bit goofy looking aircraft. There was one parked at LAX for some time a couple? years back that I shook my head every time I saw.

@S500-

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lagmire Yes it is Funny dick like aircraft, I Thought only iran air and private 747 SP's Around

@yeetoburrito

7 ай бұрын

Fun fact, there were more operators of the 747-SP than there were aircraft built. 45 aircraft built with 47 operators

the Kai Tak heart attack..so awesome! Wish I flew that approach 😬

I remember this one! :)

Great memories. First flight in back in 1980, Cathay Pacific from Manila then out on a Pan Am 747SP. Shocked somewhat to see high rise apartment buildings so close. Then flew out 2 days before it shut down. Flew back in to new airport with total chaos, 3 days after it opened. For sure, greatest airport to watch arrivals. Thanks for sharing!

@RunwayAction

3 жыл бұрын

Very welcome Jim!

11:16 Reminds me of Aeroflot flight 593

@Interdictiondeltawing

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah all because a child

@keeganfennec8514

3 жыл бұрын

Well this was filmed a year after 593 crashed on the way to kai tak so that is the replacement aircraft

I lived in HK 93 thru 96. Traveled on CX entensively. On a return trip from Taipei on L1011 asked if i could sit in jump seat for landing..was in FC and Marco Polo so Captain said OK. Was incredible experience that will never be avaialble again. IMO during the 90's CX was at its best. Every trip was a real pleasure

I really miss this amazing Airport.... 😞

I have à friend worked at Cathay and will never forget. when I sit in cockpit when he landed a fully loaded 747-400 at Kai Tak over 20 years ago.

@RunwayAction

3 жыл бұрын

That must have been something indeed!

カイタックオヘヤ空港の参考にさせて頂きます😚

Great ! Yet no video shows the great times of airline aviation, unless there is a Pan Am clipper on it.

This was the last year before the A330 and A340 began to replace the L-1011 for Cathay Pacific and Dragonair. Love these classic airliners

17:28 garuda Indonesia

25:35 One of the best landings of the 747 i've ever seen!!!

@lizard302

2 жыл бұрын

butter landing btw

Brilliant

@RunwayAction

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@ashfaq1999

3 жыл бұрын

@@RunwayAction Most Welcome

Miss Kai Tak so much😢

@RunwayAction

3 жыл бұрын

Yes very much so!

@ZsuzsannaFriedrich

21 күн бұрын

😂❤❤❤❤❤

Love Kai Tak

The China Air 747SP at :40 is the same aircraft involved in the China Air Flight 006 mishap where it dove 30,000ft uncontrolled, resulting in partial destruction of the empennage, as well as other damage. This took place in February 1985. This plane is currently stored in disrepair at Tijuana Intl, after being discarded by a religious group due to lack of airworthiness. It is easily visible on satellite images of TIJ.

@thedatboi_

2 жыл бұрын

Wait so did china air repair it because this video was recorded in 1995

The China Airlines 747SP shown is N4522V, the one that had an accident on 1985.

had kai tak.still been open it would have been the only aviation livesteam i needed for my daily dose of commercial heavies

Varig , Varig Varig ❤️

Fantastic video - HK is my favourite city, sad I never landed at Kai Tak. I did fly to Beijing from LGW in a Air China 747SP in 1992 with a refueling stop at Sharjah. Very strange plane, cramped and lots of smoking on board!

@RunwayAction

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael!

Knowing that some of these planes will stop flying eventually just feel unreal...

WE love Kai Tak

I miss the 90s.

It’s easy to get carried away watching old footage, but I think it’s fair to say this world no longer exists.

Hello JUST PLANES - have you looked into upconverting these amazing, old images? Definitely room for colour, image pixel interpolations, and other improvements!!

Our great Australian airline Ansett Australia at 22.04! RIP.

Varig Airlines was there! Olá desde o Brasil!🇧🇷🙋👍🏻👍🏻

15:09 우리나라 대한항공 B747-sp ,HL7456 비행기 가 나오네요 ㅋㅋ

What camera did you use to capture this amazing footage?

crazy to think its about to be almost 30 years since this happened

Wow Ansett Australia !!! what happen to them !!?? But yeah i remember the SQ Megatop days when i was young !

This is movies for my eyes. This is music for my ears

@RunwayAction

3 жыл бұрын

Very cool!

Some of them are gone or just rebranding? Ansett, Mandarin Air, Pan Am, JUST. Moreover, nice to see the old video🥰

Garuda smooth landing....❤

Just shows how absolutely dominant the 747 was.