Engineering Connections
Hong Kong International Airport
7.30pm – 8.30pm SBS ONE
Saturday 17 April 2010
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Hong Kong houses the fifth largest international passenger airport in the world yet before it was built in the late 1990s, its site was no more than a featureless expanse of water. Richard heads east to learn how the airport was built from scratch on a specially constructed island and reveals how this famous landmark connects with a World War II bomber, cold war spying devices and a brass band.
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should be worth watching.