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IN READINESS for the jet age of aviation, Hong Kong is enlarging and modernizing its airport at Kai Tak. At present 19 international airlines operate into Kai Tak and five more are planning to use it in 1959. First stage in the $130.000.000 expansion programme was the completion of a great new runway 8.350 feet long and 200 feet wide. This in itself was a remarkable engineering feat, since almost the entire length of the runway is laid. as shown in this photograph, on an artificial promontory reclaimed from the sea. The promontory is 163 acres in area and extends for some 14 miles into the waters of Kowloon Bay. Construction involved the building of 3 miles of sea-wall, moving over 20.000.000 tons of material by dredging and hill demolition. and paving over 60 acres of runway and taxiways.