Sunday, November 27, 2011

Sharjah airport 1937 and Dubai airport nowadays:
              The video shows the airport of Sharjah in 1937; it's called Air Outpost and contained a lot of interesting information . Most of the people in the video were Arabs travelling from place to  place on foot , by donkey and camels. The population of Sharjah was about 15,000 instead of today over  half a million . Also there were a lot of traders from different places like Iran and India . The airport was built in the shape of a fort and it was operated by British personnel. The aeroplane which was shown in the clip was arriving from England. It was a Hanno H.P.42 made by an English company for Imperial Airways . Another interesting information was the journey from England to Sharjah took about 4 days to arrive which was too long instead of nowadays, 6 hours .
The second video shows some people dancing, showing I think the different people who visit the country in this time, different from the past. They all seemed happy either the staff or the travelers in the airport. Also the contrast that we see from the two clips in the past and today.

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