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[Aldgyte]

One of my favourite VC10 memories was watching two of them from BOAC, kicking up monsoon spray scooting down the runway towards the terminal at Paya Lebar, Singapore in 1971. My economy class seat back to blighty seemed to have as much space then as business class has these days. We dropped down into a biblical looking town called Teheran. In those days some of my workmates would take six months of to take a landrover to India. Thanks to those, like Sam_F who point to legacy airport photos. Always welcome.

[Aldgyte]

The RAF VC10 was a weekly visitor, presumably facilitating troop rotation, I'd see as my car passed the perimeter fence. On one occassion, shortly after I'd arrived in Hong Kong, Concorde came in with a special tourism flight. I pulled into the access dropped kerb to watch it land and taxi. The Royal Hong Kong Police quickly pulled up to ask what I was doing.

I replied,

"You see that aircraft over there".

"Yes".

"Well, my UK taxes paid for it."

They let me off....

[Aldgyte]

During 15 years in Hong Kong I lost count of the number of times I landed at Kai Tak (HKG). I often drove my car up Fei Ngo Shan (flying goose mountain) behind the airport to watch the landings some of which landed in the fragrant nullah between the runway and the factories. I never met my namesake (David Wilson) who hosts the "Friends of Kai Tak" facebook page. I didn't start photographing aircraft till my employers back in London gave me a window facing the glidepath into LCY. A lost opportunity, but Chek Lap Kok (HKG) affords different opportunities. I hope I can get back there sometime.