• Aircraft:

  Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar

• Reg: VR-HHV photos
• Serial #:

  193K-1024

• Airline: Cathay Pacific Airways
• Photo Date: Oct 21, 1981
• Uploaded: Sep 22, 2008
• Hong Kong Kai Tak Int'l Airport (Closed) - VHHH, China (Hong Kong)

Rare Wing View of Kai Tak Airport (VHHH), taken from a Cathay Pacific TriStar during take-off roll on Rwy 13 on 21Oct1981. This photo was taken at the start of a 2.1 hour flight to Don Muang Airport Bangkok. Aircraft on the apron include KLM and Air France Boeing 747s, two Cathay Pacific TriStars. (There are also a CP Boeing 707 at right, a Thai Airways A300, and a Golden Falcon TriStar at rear). A thick haze affected the view of the mountains in the background.

Photographer

Aircraft

On final for runway 13

Stuart Prince VR-HHV

5,462 0 0 Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar

Rare 1981 cabin photo (looking rearward) in Cathay Pacific TriStar VR-HHV Cn 193K-1024, before departure from Hong Kong (Kai Tak) to Bangkok on 21Oct1981

Wal Nelowkin VR-HHV

27,933 5 2 Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar

Rare (low res) wing view photo of Taipei's Chiang Kai Shek (RCTP / CKS) Airport on 11Oct1981

Wal Nelowkin VR-HHV

14,471 1 0 Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar

Photo location

kjell nilsson S7-ASE

633 5 0 Airbus A320-211

PAUL LINK N106WA

787 3 0 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30(CF)

TTTTT_Li B-LVI

794 2 0 Airbus Helicopters H175

Photographer

Rare rear Stbd Color view of In-Service USAF North American F-86F-30-NA Sabre 52-4536 (Cn 191-232) Code FU536 (with droptanks) parked at Pyongtaek (now RKSG) South Korea in 1954

Wal Nelowkin 52-4536

287 6 0 North American F-86F Sabre

Close-cropped Stbd view of RAAF CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk30 A94-922 Cn CA27-22 being used as a Training Aid at RAAF Base Amberley on 14Nov1984

Wal Nelowkin A94-922

86 0 0 CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk.30

Close-cropped oblique rear view of the First RAAF P-3 Orion - Lockheed P-3B A9-291 Cn 185B-5401 - on the RAAF Fairbairn YSCB apron, during her first visit to Canberra during Sep 1968

Wal Nelowkin A9-291

197 0 0 Lockheed P-3B Orion