These first few images below show the plane flying past Beacon Hill in the background of image one. The exact location of the plane is over where the Lung Cheung Road was built near to where Beacon Hill Road reaches it by Beverly Heights and Elizabethan Court. The last image is around (and this is approximate) where today's Lion Rock Tunnel Road heads into the hillside.
The next set of screen capture reveals the location of the camera because the sandy path of ground in the lower part of the screen is the north end of what became known as Checkerboard Hill. The cluster of houses as the camera pans right is the Diamond Hill area. This was still a large squatter area at the time but of course is now full of high rise residential buildings. The creation of the new runway would shift the airport approach to the south side of Checkerboard Hill. The flat area in the foreground became Morse park.
Finally we get an on-board view of the landing at runway 13, you can see the runway number painted on the ground in the top two images. In the second and third images below you can vaguely make out some building on the left (north) of the runway. These should be the buildings that formed part of RAF Kai Tak. Incidentally, for a modern day comparison, this runway - or at least the first 350metres or so - was eventually turned into Tseuk Luk Street. If you look at the extreme bottom of the first image (apologies for the watermark) you can just make out the area where the road (now Choi Hung Road) crossed the end of the runway. At some point the runway was extended across the road and barriers had to be set up to prevent cars crossing as a plane was approaching.
A final quick glimpse of the plane as it completes its landing and comes to a stop with Lion Rock very obvious in the background.
The next set of screen capture reveals the location of the camera because the sandy path of ground in the lower part of the screen is the north end of what became known as Checkerboard Hill. The cluster of houses as the camera pans right is the Diamond Hill area. This was still a large squatter area at the time but of course is now full of high rise residential buildings. The creation of the new runway would shift the airport approach to the south side of Checkerboard Hill. The flat area in the foreground became Morse park.
Finally we get an on-board view of the landing at runway 13, you can see the runway number painted on the ground in the top two images. In the second and third images below you can vaguely make out some building on the left (north) of the runway. These should be the buildings that formed part of RAF Kai Tak. Incidentally, for a modern day comparison, this runway - or at least the first 350metres or so - was eventually turned into Tseuk Luk Street. If you look at the extreme bottom of the first image (apologies for the watermark) you can just make out the area where the road (now Choi Hung Road) crossed the end of the runway. At some point the runway was extended across the road and barriers had to be set up to prevent cars crossing as a plane was approaching.
A final quick glimpse of the plane as it completes its landing and comes to a stop with Lion Rock very obvious in the background.
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