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The sea lanes around HKG are just about as busy as the airport itself!!
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Notice anything not quite right??............The nose gear has almost completed it's retraction cycle, while the main gears are still dangling and unmoving. After still failing to retract despite more attempts, she turned around and landed some 30 minutes later. She finally left again for SIN after midnight, some 8 hours later!!
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Climbing out from a 25L departure; meanwhile a Hong Kong Airlines 737-800 which had departed about 10 minutes earlier passes overhead and turning north towards waypoint BEKOL.
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Pulling into the gate at T1, with her still-new paint glowing in the afternoon sun. She inherited the registration of the preserved QF 742 currently displayed at Longreach.
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Arriving from Gan as flight 5M 168D at around 12:18pm local time, after a delay of nearly 31 hours!! Then again, if not for that, we wouldn't have gotten an in-flight shot of her!
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Hauling some rich punters off to the cleaners......errr, I mean casinos!! ;-)
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In contrast to the then 2-weeks-old International Terminal (in the background) heralding a new era for the airport, it's the end of the road for this not-so-old but definitely-tired bird!! With titles stripped, a temporary taped-up job for the registration, and a "Boeing 747-400D MSN 26345" labelling (just ahead of the rearmost door; to facilitate the parts dismantlers?), it probably won't be long before her final flight to some far away desert to meet her fate!
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Taking off from 16R near sunset. Meanwhile in the background, the sun has already set for A300's JA8565 and JA8574, both with titles stripped and awaiting their fate!
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Perhaps symbolic of the status of the airline industry in Japan at the moment -- with ANA "climbing all over" JAL, given the financial troubles of the latter!
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CX549 commencing takeoff roll on 16R just after sunset.
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Arriving from Seoul (Kimpo) while Cathay's B-HLK awaits her turn to cross and head out to rwy 05 for her HKG departure.
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Graphic display of the thrust-reversing action!!
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Note the huge amount of standing water accumulating on the taxiway, virtually turning it into a mid-field lake!!
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Transaero re-opened seasonal services to HKG on 31 July 2010 (after a hiatus of several years), with once-weekly flights from Moscow/DME arriving on Saturday mornings.
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Arriving from Shanghai with President Ivan Gasparovic of the Slovak Republic on board for an official visit.
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CX826 to YYZ.
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CX253 to LHR.
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Heavy takeoff from 07R, heading for Mauritius on this afternoon.
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We haven't seen Mongolian Airlines in HKG since they last did a series of summer charters a number of years back. This is the inaugural flight of their summer 2010 charter season (Aug-Sept) to HKG. Welcome back!!
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Tall mountains in the background; classic jumbo banking to the right....for a moment it felt almost like good old Kai Tak again!!
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Catching the golden rays of the late afternoon sun on short final to 25L
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Nice to see her in action, as the airline seems to cancel more flights than they operate!
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Ex-Swissair/Swiss HB-IWO and ex-Varig PP-VTK.
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Under optimal lighting during the late afternoon, even the normally blotchy Cathay silverbirds can appear stunning.
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About to "suck in" a Government Flying Services chopper!! (CX711 to SIN)
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Formerly Air France Cargo's F-GUOA, now in the colors of her new master.
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On short finals to 25R shortly before massive thunderstorms hit HKG. Already, the skies to the north of the airport has turned pitch black, indicative of the ferocity of the storms that would be upon us in less than 10 minutes time!!