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Nov 15, 2011 | 3:52 pm

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Originally Posted by D582

Essentially you've described how it works. The Wikipedia article for Kai Tak has a pretty good timeline summary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Tak_Airport

Quote:

Originally Posted by tentseller

I remember episodes of "MegaBuilder" or "Frontier of Contribution" dealing with the planning, building (including all new infrastructure) and the Relocation of HKG from Kowloon Bay to Lantau Island back around 2004/5 and has seen it re-runned since on Discovery channel.
Maybe there are clips of it floating around the internet.

There is an episode of "Extreme Engineering" from 2003 that covers the new airport build and subsequent move. It is available on Nextflix instant (collection 1, Episode 3).

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