Great Documentary on Building HKG Airport

Hey everyone,
I just finished watching a great documentary about the building of HKG airport. I had no idea how involved this project was. This sheds a whole new light on HKG.

What they had to do was truly incredible--they effectively built an island out in the sea to put the airport on, had to construct highways over existing highways, built a double-decker bridge with suspension towers 60 stories tall, and much more.

This project makes LHR's T5 construction look pitiful, and is a lesson in how quickly a government/airport group can accomplish something under deadline (they originally wanted to complete HKG before the Chinese took Hong Kong over, in fear they would cancel the project).

There's no way anything like this could ever be done in the US, or possibly again in the world.

It's part of the Extreme Engineering series on the Discovery channel and is called "Building Hong Kong's Airport". It runs 43 minutes and is available on Netflix.

There was a similar Discovery-produced documentary about the building of Osaka/Kansai Airport, and how they dealt with the earthquakes and the tendency for landfill to subside and so on. Building a 600' suspension bridge tower in close proximity to an airport seems a little strange, but then again, it was replacing an airport where the landing procedure was
1.) Fly at mountain.
2.) Turn before you hit the mountain.
3.) Craaaaaabbbbbbbb!

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Originally Posted by Mateo

There was a similar Discovery-produced documentary about the building of Osaka/Kansai Airport, and how they dealt with the earthquakes and the tendency for landfill to subside and so on. Building a 600' suspension bridge tower in close proximity to an airport seems a little strange, but then again, it was replacing an airport where the landing procedure was
1.) Fly at mountain.
2.) Turn before you hit the mountain.
3.) Craaaaaabbbbbbbb!

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Oh come on, you only had to crab when you were landing in a tropical storm! :D