Cotswolds Airport Boneyard!

[boatman]

I was one of the last people to fly out of that airport. Cathay gave us all a rather nice plaque to commemorate the flight.

CAN we see a pic of the plaque Colin ?
chris

[rtfoe]

Hong Kong, I managed to experience both the old Kai Tak and new Chep Lap Kok airports and both were memorable.

Kai Tak was the approach as Pete described, I only got the shivers seeing the next flight come in at an angle but CLK was during the China Airlines crash in the airports first typhoon experience and shut both runways.
Our flight out was on the same night and we're checked into the departure hall and all flights were cancelled...chaos was beginning with long lines at food outlets and crowds protesting but we managed to get out with the help of the airport manager as we had a baby with us and surety that we had a relative to stay at until they booked us into the same accommodation we were holidaying in.
Cathay provided cash for our necessities and we stayed on for another week...phew that was scary. Wasn't even scarred of the typhoon although pieces of stuff were flying about.

Cheers,
Richard

[colin m]

CAN we see a pic of the plaque Colin ?
chris

Found it. The date is 6th July 1998 . However, the plaque actually says to celebrate the opening of Chep Lap Kok, so maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I was one of the first to fly out of the new airport. It was a long time ago !

[colin m]

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Found it. The date is 6th July 1998 . However, the plaque actually says to celebrate the opening of Chep Lap Kok, so maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I was one of the first to fly out of the new airport. It was a long time ago ![ATTACH=CONFIG]n1132763[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]n1132764[/ATTACH]

wait, I was right, I’ve just found this in the box

[Dave Ward]

I remember flying Hong Kong > UK. It was alarming to see the masts of junks whizzing by at the same level, when taking off - the runway stuck out into the harbour
Dave

[boatman]

COR Colin this is now a collectors item i would think as there wont be many of them about
chris an thanks for showing it to us all :thumb2: