Re: For Fun! Whose Packard has been at the highest or lowest elevations?
Posted by Guscha On 2011/11/3 10:14:47
I walked to the third pole of the world but failed nevertheless in the attempt to outbid Robert (bhappy). Well, the altitude difference was as fine as a hair. The below shown pictures were taken at the first airport in Tibet.
According to the Tibet magazine "...the Chinese pilots said: If we fail in the test flight, we will return to Beijing on the back of donkeys."
"...Building an airport in Tibet, which is termed in flying parlance as flying over a "Hump" in the Tibetan Plateau has gone through a process of trial and error through many hazardous air routes and several fatal accidents during World War II. The first airport was built in May 1956, in the southwest of Damxung County at a height of 4,200 metres (13,800 ft). Russian I1-12 and CV-240-401 were the first aircraft that landed at Damxung airport from the north and south directions and thus broke the jinx of the "forbidden air zone", and this was acclaimed a feat. It took almost nine more years before the first Beijing-Chengdu-Lhasa air route became operational in 1965. It was in 1965 itself that the Gonggar Airport was also constructed. Damxung Airport was decommissioned later (converted into a race course)..."[wikipedia]
sources
pic #1: www.tibetmagazine.net
pic #2: www.www.dae.mi.th
pic #3: documentary movie "Roof of the Earth"
pic #4: Xinmin Po (Chinese newspaper)
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According to the Tibet magazine "...the Chinese pilots said: If we fail in the test flight, we will return to Beijing on the back of donkeys."
"...Building an airport in Tibet, which is termed in flying parlance as flying over a "Hump" in the Tibetan Plateau has gone through a process of trial and error through many hazardous air routes and several fatal accidents during World War II. The first airport was built in May 1956, in the southwest of Damxung County at a height of 4,200 metres (13,800 ft). Russian I1-12 and CV-240-401 were the first aircraft that landed at Damxung airport from the north and south directions and thus broke the jinx of the "forbidden air zone", and this was acclaimed a feat. It took almost nine more years before the first Beijing-Chengdu-Lhasa air route became operational in 1965. It was in 1965 itself that the Gonggar Airport was also constructed. Damxung Airport was decommissioned later (converted into a race course)..."[wikipedia]
sources
pic #1: www.tibetmagazine.net
pic #2: www.www.dae.mi.th
pic #3: documentary movie "Roof of the Earth"
pic #4: Xinmin Po (Chinese newspaper)
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