The Kai Tak Story: Planning The
P
Terminal
LANNING an airport is not an easy job at the best of time. With Hongkong the existing situation of a surrounding ring of hills being a danger to navigation made matters worse.
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1958.
UNWAY BERE NOT 10)
EXISTING TERMINAL
BLDG.
First of all, the new runway engines, Air Commodore Dickens runway, again depends on cus
Lomers' demands, he said.
The Director of Civil Aviation, Mr M. J. comes into operation carly that Muspratt-Williams, said: "As a whole, planning month. The present two run
ways will then cease to function of this airport has been a very difficult job. As as such. On the HAECO alde of the freight build- carly as 1952 those in the aviation business and the runway Government realised that in a few years Hong-ings will be constructed and kong's airport would be out-of-date, and set with the about planning, a. Government."
modern
one
"At the outset the plan- completed, they will take ners knew that it was going up little more than half of to be an arduous task. The this, leaving room for prac airport then in use could not tically 100 per cent expan be closed down for two years sion in the future. while the contractors went ahead with a new airport."
used
replied: "We have looked to the future with the advent of those
engines, and over the past year we have sent engineers to Eng- land for training courses in the
various types of engines.
By Andrew Sloan
as a temporary airport
terminal, and the terminal now in use will be converted to freight and mall section.
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Airline offices will be transfer-
the new airport
Explaining this the D.C.A. red to the temporary terminal "I had to be n phased said: "Aviation has moved during April, and the present nhead very rapidly since the terminal will begin lfs new pur- operation."
war years and still ia mak- pose.
So we've First of all the runway ing big strides. was decided upon. Tenders had to phin for the future. were called for by Govern. If we plan solely for present
When we may find ment, awarded then wark day aircraft began. Now the runway ouraclves far behind when terminal is completed some two nears completion, but dix the airport is finally built years from now, airline cussions with Government and completed. nre still in progress about the new terminal building— extremely important he. cause it will house the nerve centre of the future airport -the control tower,
A temporary control lower is now under construction to guide aircraft in and out of the new runway Олсе it comes into operation.
"We're planning for the foreseeable future and mak- ing allowance for the un- foreseeable future. That has not been an easy task at Bil."
offices will make their second and final move. The temporary terminal will revert to the purpose for
which it was designed.
To find out how these moves
"In two or three months' time HAECO engineers will be able to overhaul the Rolls Royer Dart engine which powers the Vis counts.
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He added: "Whatever the cus
The Fire Service at Ha! Tak, which has been built up to be como a very effolent fire-fighting Opposite the proposed terminal team over the part two years area will be a parking "apron will not be enlarged. They will for aircraft. There will be sul move to new premises altunted elent parking bays to cater for beside the Hongkong Auxiliary 12 aircraft Inovements in on Air Force section, who are to hour, and room for expansion to bo stationed near Sun WODE 20 muvements per hour, should Tol Road.
this need arise.
It is not known definitely where the Far East Flying Training School offices will be Each of the boys will have in the future once they vacuto underground pipe connections to their present hangar and offices, been set out the aviation fuel reservoirs and hut an area has high-preneure pumps capable of, for them, close by the Sung re-fuelling aircraft at up to 1,100 Garden on Sung Wong Toi gallons per minute.
Road,
tomers' demands--we will try long our best to fulfi
Whether RAECO will run on a 24-hour service with the new
This will cut out the present out business of drawn mobile fuel tankera driving into the parking area to re-fuel air- craft, which wastes a consider- able amount of tine.
TOMORROW:
The problems of night- flying and Kai Tak's rolo in the future
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-JUST A ROUGH IDEA
as China Mail aerial photograph taken from an AHKAAF helicopter, and retouched by the China. Mail artist to show the general layout of the proposed new airport terminal building and adjacent structures. It is not an, aoctrate plan. Its sole purpose is to give renders some idee of what the airport will look like when completed in 1960,
Aircraft will taxi-from the runway (top left corner) past the RAF readiness ares, and turn left onto the parking ares In front of the terminal building.
The freight and mail soolton beside the proposed terminal bulking will serve sa temporary lerminsi while conatruo- tion of the new terminal is carried on, Some of bio HAECO hangars will be moved into new position to conform with planning.
Clearwater Bay Road will be re-aligned and widened to take the expected heavy flow of traffic, once the new air- port swings inis full operation.
The RAF readiness area will be used for the parking of aircraft for day to day flying, but they will retain their present premises in Ngau Chi Wan and on the waterfront.
HOW WILD IS THE WILD WEST? PART three,
THE
new young around the airport would be affecting the Hongkong Aircraft American Indian Engineering Company, I went to speak to Its manager, Air wears a blue suit and Commodore T. C. Dickens, in carries a felt hat. He his office at Kat Tak.
wants to be a doctor, a
The present airport has only
kept going been
оп very
He said he was aware of thei stringent regulations and with close co-operation between ale- Government lines. their crews and the De- modernisation
...These partment of Civil Aviation.
necessitate the
TC-
plans for the lawyer, a business man, of Kal Taka politician, a journalist, positioning of many of the grocer, a mechanic. He Speaking as Chairman of the buildings now used by the com- does not want to be the Airport Planning Committee, Mr pany. Muspratt-Williams
the said Cuminiltee had been set up to
"The company is doing every- conform with
the general layout of the new sirport, including the relaying best operational advantage," he
of HAECO installations to the
and thing It can to the discuss all the operation Turning again to
planning details as regards the Director'a working plan, out of buildings, setting up I could see that the only of equipment and other details definite point as regards relative to the airport. layout of actual buiklings was the freight and mail Bection, which will be the temporary terminal; In the
The Committee consists of four
case of the new terminal representatives of all the airlines which use Hongkong Airport,
added,
It is essential that HAECO should maintain, uninterrupted, its full technical backing of the local airline, Hongkong Air- ways, Cathay Pacifle Airways
and the maintenance see They are similar to assists to and the Močno Air Transport tion, areas had been fixed the D.C.A. and constitute on Company, only for the location of unmetal committee. various buildings.
The total terminal area, including that of the freight section, will cover approxi- mately 750,000 square feet When these structures are
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"This has
useful. The com- proven very initiee has been unanimous in its decisions," he added,
object of the curious of 2 giggling eyes tourist, a seller of pot- tery, carpets, beads, and phoney trinkets made in Chicago.
He is proud a weak in health, and for the most part terribly poor. I've had more difficulty in getting facts about the Indian today above the Blo Grande than during the rest of this Wild West assignment,
Sheriffs, marshals, school. Additionally, It was necessary for the company lo maintal musters, ranchers, cowboys and their technical services to the Indians themselves persisted in The month of September 1skog airport,
18 airlines which use Ilong-telling me about the past-lhe bringing trade Massacre of Bloody Elbow, the ang to be one of the busiest In the history of aviation in Hong number of other
and tourists to the Colony. A exploits of Red Cloud and Sit-
the legends ting Bull.
of the kong, because
airlines use It is then that
Cheyenne and the Sloux, the acrvices provided by the first big moves will be made,
the Crow, the Flathead and the HAECO but are not regular
famous Navaho, now peace-lov- users of Kal Tak airport,
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ber of buildings, and at the same TUNALLY I had to go to the they will have to maintain their technical services,
Air Commodore Dickens sata HAECO will fully support those responsible for planning 20d developing the future airport, but to do this at present would require
most Rympathetic acknowledgement from them.
leading Indian college. Haskell Institute, in Lawrence, Kansas, to get information about the American Indian in 1958.
I busy,
was fold
but M
the Dean
WAS
-
I go searching
for
Redskins R
illusion
bites the dust
by DON IDDON
Indian
sometimes
the the
Another illaton. Is that the
**This is because of poverty, poor housing, irade- quale food and adherence to old bellefs and superstitions. There are, of course, a handful of oil Tich Indians."
the ing struggle between while man and Red man. A bright young reporter (quarter Indian) told me: "There are 400 cases the court now heard in which dians
ane suing
in
waiting to bo American In-
tho
United
States Government for the dif-
cesions were promised for Beli- ing their land to the Gover- ment and the peleo they have received."
As I was absorbing this in- formation the Indian students ference between what their an worked relentlessly. No curious glances.--no shuttling. There was a wall between them and myself, and I felt, for the first time the West, an Intruder.
Some of the elalms go back to You must understand that the 1795. There have been hun- Indian suffered terribly at the dreds of treaties with the tilbes, hands of the white man, Ha
as everyone knows, but what goods were stolen, his land was Inot the white man got away
coupled, his Komen were with! It make# carped off, his flecks of cattle ache. and later his oll were appro- priated. He was slaughtered, tortured, malmed and massacred. His country ultimately
was
your
NEW DEAL
heart
President
Good men, including Indians themselves, serve in the Bunta La of Indian Affairs, aclflessly.
The college, with its big stadium and scattered bulidings and extensive grounds, is dedi cated to improving the lite of the Indian, equipping him for Indians. After 33 years here 3 Westerner
is still inclined to taken from him.
CTUALLY, since the 20th-century world.
was still under the Impression regard the
Now there are desperate Roosevelt became President that American Indians were not
and stranger
amends; to in 1933 there has been ng loot- to vote, I crossed the permitted
were not enemy, proud, deflant, sick, and attempts to make
provide free health service for ing and no raw deal, but a new campus от quadrangle and allowed quor and were wards hostile, it is an honour to have
of the Government. Nut so. They Indian blond.
the poor Indian, to grant him deal, The United States Cover- When HAECO first began, it penetrated a basement classroom have the right to vote but sa
credit (the Indian is one of the ment is doing its utmost to wipe out the past, and it has cut the raised buildings and expanded could get some information.
many are unable to pass the A merchant in Wichita told best credit risks of any ruclai
to build schools Indian death-rato in half in the according to the dictates of So I drove over in the pink literacy test that only about five me proudly: "Lode at those group here), space avallable between the Oldsmobile convertible,
per cent of the quarter of a high check-bones of mine and hospitals and factories for past 20 years, and greatly im- a long slow proved the Indian standard of runways now in use. Any re- crusted with chromfufn, which million Red Indians scattered Indian blood, sir, that's what him. But it is alignment of the
struggle to wipe out the au- lving. company's
the We, the only car I could hire in aerosa
United States made them Indian blood," premises
picions, and a woefully big job thus only take these parts, con
and then walked actually cast a vote.
to help the Indian to help him- place when the existing run- Into a girls' classroom, Rows of ways are superseded by the Indian beads werd bent low Liquor Js permitted within India is dying out. He is not. self.
text-books. cartala dry Staic limits. Indians There were whole periods when More than 20 per cent or
was decimated by
The Indian societies them- It is perhaps & Hits unfor- Everyone went on working as I are not wards of the Govern be Indian
explained that Information ment but by whole con- disease, by battle, by mali 65,000, of the Indians over five
Fears of age living in the selves,, after four centuries of tunate, that A YOUNE
company about
the present-day Indian glomeration of treaties with the tion, by Indulging and exploita
have no formal déleying netion, mee moving such as this, fust establishing was proving to be elusive,
tribes, and most of all out of lon. But he
is making the United States
education. They cannot road or with the Government. Hugo conscience. Atwell in an expanding Industry
Government pace to climb back to a place in
write and have o bewildering advancea have been made, should be faced with a prob. It was here at the insillue (I keeps a special eye and has a the American sun.
range of their own languages lem of this nature. Especially bad to pay for some Informa- special puise for the Indian.
and dialects-hundreds of them. at a time when aviation iatlon) that I learned about the making such rapid technical modern Indian before driving to I said "ano quarter of a mil-
I left Haskell with the infor- survived planned mamcre and advances, and when the ones the Nebraska border and visiting Jion" Indians, but no one knows.
tatian that 22,000 Indians ruthless exploitation. The In- gies, sklil' and finance of the the reservations of the Town, the the exect figure, and not many,
Y guide at the Institute said: served as enlisted men in the dian hoe proved he connot being channelled Towhattan reservation
In company are
in except places sisch 08 to the acceptance of a new ora Kansas, and the Pottawatime, Haskell, and in the Bureau of
evaliable regarding of prop.jel and puro jst uit- north of Topeka,
indian Affairs In Washington, the Indian in 12 times more statistics
susceptible to tuberculosis than officers. Perhaps there were no craft.
First of all the ignorance of
the average clliron. He is more officers. When... I asked him what the white American about his There is no standard deñnl-· susceptible to all sorts of ill- including trachoma,
It was
at Towhattan that T HAECO are doing about over Red brother' is almost as great tion of the Indian, and unlikely nesses, [ beyling | the latest turbo-prop'as that of the British about the jo
learned a little of the continu- bs. And although the which attacks the eyer.
new airstrip.
.
lover papers and
seem to care.
the
POVERTY
The Indian has` murvived all attempte at extermination,
MOne of the troubles is that last war, but that there were no destroyed.
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