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Airbus A380 over Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
2007-09-03 15:05:28
Had to get up at 7am (unlike my usual 9am or later) to get to Tsim Sha Tsui to see the Airbus A380 up close.
I got there just before 8am, and unsuprisingly there were already a big crowd of keen photographers waiting. Some were also in their suits too.
After the arrival of two partol helicopters, the A380 made her way over us. Here's the first fly-over:
She was surprisingly quiet, just as I gathered on the news. If it was the Boeing 747, we would have become deaf from that distance - a flight altitude of just under 2000 feet only, closely matching the IFC's height. Even the noise coming out from the MTR ventilation shaft was louder than the plane!
Second fly-over:
The slight let-down was that the A380 flew closer to the Tsim Sha Tsui side than to the Hong Kong Island side, so I couldn't get any shots of the airplane in front of the skyscrapers.
I heard if the weather is ideal tomorrow morning, the A380 may do another flight over the harbour. If I can wake up even earlier tomorrow then I may consider taking my camera to the Hong Kong Island side (ideally The Peak).
