MALAYAN AIRWAYS OLD AIRPORT
The government is wise to upgrade the Batu Berendam Airport
to serve an escalating flow of passengers to Melaka. A landing field for commercial aircraft, at a
size of about 0.6 square kilometres, is operated by Malaysia Airports Holdings
Berhad.
Duchess of Kent declared the opening of the airport in 1952.
Tunku Abdul Rahman used the airport when he declared the Malaya Independence in
1957. Formed in 1946, Malayan Airways Limited changed name in 1963 to Malaysian
Airways. 9 years later, Malaysian Airways was renamed as Malaysia Airlines
Berhad. The Wau became popular. Wau is the Malay word for kite. The
Kelantan’s design WAU is a
popular version locally. They are large and colorful. The golden kite became
the air logo for Malaysian fleet of aircrafts.
Earlier in history, man wanted to fly as a bird flies. Man
designed aircrafts and managed to fly only in the 19th century.
Certainly, kids whose parents have cars in the early times, would have
experienced the tendency of their hands flapping upward or downward when
holding the hand out of the car. Chances experiencing the force of the relative
wind is marginally reduced as kids now sit in air-conditioned cars. Thus, with
a calculated small angles, inclined to the line of its flight through air, all
types of aircrafts secure the best lifting result for the least effort in which
each aircraft is designed to fly.
Right, an old image shows an old Malayan Airways
aircraft at the old Batu Berendam Airport where my grandfather boarded on a
flight to West Asia. The old Malayan aircraft was a propeller-driven airplane,
and the whirling of the propeller serves to pull the machine in the direction
of the flight. The air right after the aircraft, being displaced by the action
of the propeller, flows backwards horizontally at high speed and presses
against the under surface of the aircraft, thereby lifting it.
Early players of aircrafts are Douglas Aircraft Company,
Lochkeed, Martin Company, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation and Boeing
Airplane Company, to name a few.
It all began because of the 1st flight of the
Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Orville is on the plane and Wilbur is
watching.
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