There was a big,old house in one corner of RAF Ping Shan and I must have taken this and the next photo, from there. Although I do not remember entering it at any time it was the only place that I can recall which would have allowed above-ground-level shots like these. The radar set in this shot was an old, rotating type whilst the one in the second shot was a vertical, nodding type (presumably giving the cruising height of scanned objects). My eyes are not much good now but I think that is the Ping Shan pagoda above the corner of the buiding end.
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1955
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Ping Shan
With all that wide open flat land it is not surprising someone chose it as the site for Hong Kong’s new airport in 1946
https://industrialhistoryhk.org/ping-shan-proposed-airport-hong-kong/
plus related postings on the same subject
Ping Shan Valley area and proposal to site an airfield there.
Thank you IDJ for all of that information. I was ignorant about what had transpired there and am pleased to have added my old photos which show a landscape that no longer exists. I must say that it all made very interesting reading.