Building Hong Kong's Airport | Extreme Engineering
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- The Hong Kong international airport is the largest civil engineering project in history and the largest enclosed space in the world. It is also 16 miles out to sea and built on a platform that was constructed by leveling two small islands. S01E07
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I've been watching documentaries like this for the past week - SR71, nuclear submarines, dams, aircraft carriers, and now airports. It's truly amazing what our species has been able to conceive, design, and make into a reality. We truly could solve any and all worldwide problems we face (poverty, hunger, clean water, shelter) if we wanted to.
Indeed, remarkable 😳😌👏🏻
I remember watching this and documentaries like it when i was a kid.
Amazing engineering thumbs up to all those who helped build it
Hong Kong International Airport is the busiest airport by cargo volume from 2010-2019, and 2021. The passenger traffic is lower than London Heathrow, busiest in Europe. But the cargo volume is 4 times as much.
HKIA has a very large cargo apron and 4 cargo terminals -- HACTL, AAT, CPCT (by Cathay Pacific) and DHL, each still have extra land for further expansions of the handling facilities. It has a massive concentration of cargo freighters, while in most international airports freight is restricted to passenger jet cargo holds only.
This is one of the most difficult yet successful engineering projects ever. Hong Kong airport has become one of the best airports in the world. Kudo to everyone who made this possible.
4:19 It's hard to believe that a Concorde, one of the world's fastest commercial planes (and one of the hardest passenger aeroliners to control) landed at Kai-Tak in 1979.
Brilliant documentary
Kai Tak was a lot safer than this documentary made it out to be.
It was certainly high risk, but things were very controlled and saw hardly much incident/accident.
I admit with enough time possibly something could've happened. This project was necessary.
I doubt a project this large could've been done in the US in the time frame due to regulations and lawsuits.
Exactly right. Regulations and lawsuits
Who live in hong kong
👇. Me
Hong Kong built this modern marvel in 8 years...meanwhile Toronto even can't build an LRT line in over a decade.
An incredible achievement. In Ireland, we can't even manage to build a ring road around Galway City because of planning objections 😂
One of my lecturers at my technical college in Glasgow actually helped work on the project from 1995-98 when she lived out there.
Funnily enough with the way Hong Kong is going since the hand back, the old Kai tak airport would have been too big !
I do knows that projects of Hong Kong has had been done now. The outsides of Universe Hong Kong international Airports is not ours responsibility to pay theirs payment whatsoever. Hong Kong is not the government of each country’s government that supposed to paying theirs the staffs works. We only owned the lands and properties airports worldwide only. If theirs the flights not accept the Hong Kong leadership’s that we can shutdown completely and sending the peoples takes over each country’s airports and employers the peoples to working at those airports immediately please. The staffs into the airports that can used the nine humans airplanes to handles the jobs immediately. Microsoft then airs planes back in the airports systems immediately. Universe Hong Kong is not takes the risks for passengers life’s being easily that must had one of the professionals technology staff’s on planes.
39:40 Hurricane Sam this was the worst the airport faced a plane landing in a storm and a severe fire. China Air 642 tried to land during the storm but got caught in gravity well when Sam's eye hit the airport. The plane flipped upside down, skidded across Runway 7L, and smashed into the pappy and dadum lights at the end of the runway and burst into flames. 208 passengers and crew were injured and the first officer, flight engineer, and the captain were killed. Since that incident there have been six accidents at the airport. 2006 Cathy Pacific 780 landed at the airport with an engine fire in both engines cause of the crash was contaminated gas from a hydrant in Surabaya. 2021 UPS 5X003 suffered an engine fire and had to go around NTSB is still investigating it. and 2022 United 2831 suffered a bird strike and fire and had to go around NTSB is still investigating the incident.
I will granted the projects before New York airports to builds. I’m not cares what it takes must be get it done. I’m not granted the Hong Kong floating airports now. I don’t needs the floating airports right now. Therefore, for the futures the well beings. If didn’t knows what to do that I will come back to tells you what to do. Fills the lands to connecting the existing Kai Tak Airports. No one’s had Authority to stopped the Universe Hong Kong to ready shows the truly Universe building on earth’s. ❤❤
Happy Birthday Chek Lap Kok Island and Hong Kong International Airport 26 years of flight.
God, TV documentaries sure do waffle and repeat themselves while witholding all the interesting stuff.
Japan built kobe and Osaka airports in the Sea way far in the sea
36:57 Cathay Pacific Boeing 747 jumbo jet has landed in the New Hong Kong International Airport
just to confirm - they didn't move all the airport equipment in seven hours! 99% of the ground equipment's was moved to the new airport over several weeks before the airport closed. Only the essential were left at Kai Tak to operate the scheduled flights. The dramatics is a bit much, I guess made for TV.
american tv indicative of it's time
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35:45 "Goodbye Kaitak and Thank You!" and with that Kaitak is no longer an airport its IACO number and IATA LIDS callsign have been transferred to Chek Lap Kok Island which is about to open.
The site the old kai tak airport once stood is now a cruise ship port and a residential area
Hong Kong International is still growing. The reason they built it is to replace Kaitak. Everyone knows Kaitak is the most dangerous airport in the world. Every day from 1925 to 1998 big giant 747s landed on people's roofs. The citizens of Hong Kong did not like it so they built the new airport on Chek Lap Kok Island.
22 miles of road, 12 tunnels, 14 bridges, 30 miles of high speed rail, 4 new cities, two theme parks, one stadium, two terminal buildings, an underground subway, 47 miles of cable cars, six concorses, and four of the worlds largest cargo hubs complete the project.
Here is another fact when they leveled Chek Lap Kok Island it took 12 million lbs of dynamite and 4 dredgers to clear the channel so the runways could be built. For the third runway they did not dredge they capped it and used deep cement mixing and pile driving to form the runways base. In 2023 Terminal 2 and Concourse H will open and more planes will arrive as Hong Kong International Airport continues to expand.
In its history Hong Kong International only had three accidents First one was in 99 China Air 642 got caught in the gravity well of Hurricane Sam the plane was flipped upside down and hit the pappy and dadum lights on the runway causing a fire 208 passengers were injured and the captain, first officer, and chief engineer were killed that was the worse one. 2006 Cathy Pacific 780 landed at the airport with an engine fire in both engines cause of the crash was contaminated gas from a hydrant in Surabaya. 2021 UPS 5X003 suffered an engine fire and had to go around NTSB is still investigating it. and 2022 United 2831 suffered a bird strike and fire and had to go around NTSB is still investigating the incident.
The theme parks in question is Disneyland and another is Ocean Park. Or maybe there’s just only 1 theme park on Lantau Island and it’s name is Hong Kong Disneyland Resort.
@@FlatEarthKiller the other is Ocean Park which is on the southern tip of the island on land reclaimed from Kaitak.
@@geomodelrailroader I think you’re talking about Ocean Park Theme Park in south hong kong island. Its either this or maybe there are two ocean parks in Hong Kong?
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36:26 Tower is calling the planes here they come.
I think this shows that when you HAVE to get something done within a specified timeline, it can be done. Unfortunately, I doubt us Americans are capable of doing it.
I’m still supporting if the planes building manufacturing to rebuild the new planes as well. If any sky’s killing that’s not my business. That’s will be the locals government responsible not mines. I will employ more professionals trained staffs to takes over the each country’s sky’s businesses immediately as well. ❤❤. The new generations will trains immediately for those older and not responsible staffs to blackmail me at all. China is me and Hong King is me as well. How can be a problems that Hong King China is owned by me only including lands and properties as well. Who’s can retells me not working at all.❤❤
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amen!
40:03 no it was china airlines flight 642
40:03 China airlines flight 642
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And the British tax payers had to cough up the cash... Cheers John Major....
Do you think Hong Kong has no taxpayers? Britain actually profited a lot from the design and construction.
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China would have made it even better😅
they are and they are working with the Brits and the Dutch to expand it all three know Hong Kong is the gateway to Asia and if you expand you get more money and thats what Hong Kong wants.
Sha Tin to Central Link, a project that made Hin Keng, Diamond Hill extra platform, Sung Wong Toi, To Kwa Wan, Ho Man Tin and Hung hom extra platforms (7 modified stations including Tai Wai) and 1 modified station Admiralty, meaning 8 stations. 9 stations counting Exhibition Station, in 10 years. This entire Airport Project was completed in a more smaller timeline than SCL.
Hong Kong, Kowloon, Olympic, Lai King two extra platforms, Tsing Yi, Tung Chung, Airport are the 7 new stations, with 3 more being added (Asia World Expo, Sunny Bay, Nam Cheong)