While watching this vid it occurred to me that about the ONLY thang I miss about air travel... which I did a lot of back in Former Happy Days... is the spectacular nighttime city views one gets during a night landing. My favorite night landing was always Dee-troit but that was more a function of coming home than the view itself. The view was pretty good, however, given that Dee-troit is essentially flatter than flat and spread out over a VERY large area, compared to other cities. And then there's Noo Yawk, of course, and London, and a plethora of other cities. They are all spectacular from the air on a clear night.
But the most amazing night landing I ever experienced was at the old Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong (at right)... and it was ALL about the terror, mainly because one gets the feeling your pilot is setting you down on some boulevard rather than an actual airport. You could actually SEE people walking around inside their high-rise apartments as you were on final into Kai Tak. THAT, Gentle Reader, is a most unnerving feeling. I can only imagine how the residents of those apartments felt about having a 747 whistle... or roar... by their windows every two minutes or so. I'm thinkin' those people were sure glad when Kai Tak shut down. Me? I was glad to have survived the landing, which was a close encounter of the disconcerting sort.
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