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Authors: Gavin Young
Beyond Lion Rock: The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways (34 page)
Patrick Tsai and Chester Yen, two of Cathay’s Chinese senior executives
A Cathay Pacific Lockheed Electra, one of two in the fleet from 1959 to 1967. Range: 2,700 miles. Cruising speed: 400 mph. Seventy-five passengers. In the foreground, the southernmost tip of Kowloon, the Star Ferry Terminal. Top left: Kai Tak Airport in the haze and hills of the New Territories.
A Cathay Convair jet. Range: 2,800 miles. Cruising speed: 590 mph.
John Nott, British Minister of Trade (standing), at the Dorchester Hotel in London, announcing his dramatic decision to allow Cathay Pacific to fly the Hong Kong to London route and giving John Swire (left) a night to remember.
At Sydney Airport little Betsy, newly repainted in the Cathay uniform, gets ready to ‘race’ one of the company’s giant 747s home to Hong Kong – and retirement.
Gavin Young (1929–2001) was a journalist, writer, and briefly a member of MI6. As a journalist, he was most associated with the
Observer
, being in the words of Mark Frankland’s obituary ‘a star foreign correspondent’. When disenchantment with journalism set in he turned to the writing of books. The two most famous ones are
Slow Boats to China
and its sequel
Slow Boats Home
. He himself had a particular affection for two later books
In Search of Conrad
(winner of the Thomas Cook Book Award) and
A Wavering Grace
. These and
Beyond Lion Rock, From Sea to Shining Sea, Return to the Marshes
and
Worlds Apart
are all being reissued in Faber Finds.
This ebook edition first published in 2012
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