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| Singapore's Changi International Airport | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 5 2011, 03:00 AM (197 Views) | |
| Schultzy | Dec 5 2011, 03:00 AM Post #1 |
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An article in the Wall Street Journal. Sounds like it would be a great place to have a layover and make longhauls a little less tedious.http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204397704577070502443425304.html |
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| Schultzy | Dec 5 2011, 03:02 AM Post #2 |
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Sorry if I have screwed up on the link. |
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| Kahu | Dec 5 2011, 10:18 AM Post #3 |
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It is a great airport hotel ..... built on the site of the infamous Changi POW Camp in Singapore. I think this is the link you were after Schultzy. Changi Hotel - Singapore There's a great airport hotel in Hong Kong too, and personally I prefer that one to Singapore's. Accommodation of a reasonable standard is quite expensive in Singapore. |
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| Schultzy | Dec 5 2011, 11:43 AM Post #4 |
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Thank you Kahu. |
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| Changi | Dec 5 2011, 12:03 PM Post #5 |
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I remember the old Changi 'airport'; a dirt strip that the road ran across. There was some military airstrip matting across the road where it intersected the dirt strip runway and flashing red lights for vehicles to halt when airplanes were landing or taking off. The airfield, like the old Kai Tak in Hong Kong, was shared between civilian airlines, private aircraft and the military. The forbidding presence of Changi Gaol loomed close-by. I remember that there was also a wind sock. The RAF were operating late marques of Spitfires and Mosquitos, also Lincoln heavy bombers [updated Lancasters] and Bristol Brigands {akin to, but not as reliable as, the old Beaufighters - known by the pilots as 'Bucking Bast*rds'] when I lived there as a young child. It was jets that the RAF were mainly operating in the UK and Europe by then - early 1950s. Edited by Changi, Dec 5 2011, 12:05 PM.
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| Schultzy | Dec 5 2011, 12:39 PM Post #6 |
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It sounds as if you have some interesting memories Changi. It must have been neat seeing those vintage airplanes. Good choice for a name to call yourself for this forum. |
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| Kahu | Dec 5 2011, 04:22 PM Post #7 |
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They weren't 'vintage' when Changi saw them Schultzy. The name Changi (and Sandakhan in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo) still hold awful memories for some families in this part of the world. |
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