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 19^th 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 1^st flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Orville is on the plane and Wilbur is watching.