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ne of the most spectacular and well-known sights in world aviation is the gleaming finger of Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport runway jutting out into the blue waters of Kowloon Bay (see picture on previous page). It is also a monu- ment to Hong Kong's big-thinking public works planners who, faced with the problem of lack of space for a runway, solved it by tearing down a mountain and dumping it in the sea. Then they built their runway on it. Kai Tak is now being expanded and up-graded to meet the challenge of the new era of jumbo jets and supersonic transports.
More than 27 international airlines operate some 350 scheduled services through Kai Tak each week, carrying more than a million and a half passengers to and from Hong Kong each year. The following pages show something of the constant round of activities which keep this vast communi- cations complex operating smoothly.
The picture opposite shows air traffic controllers with some of the sophisticated electronic aids used to guide air- craft in and out of Hong Kong.
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