As the two talked, the transport plane was already close to the airport. Lining up with the runway below, it landed smoothly on the paved surface of Baoji Suburban Airport.
In 1938, although the Far East Empire had built quite a few airports, there were not many like Baoji Suburban Airport, with two runways poured in concrete.
At present, most airports in the Far East Empire had natural grass fields or compacted dirt runways, capable only of handling small aircraft. For example, Nanjing Minggugong Airport, which had opened in 1929, initially had dirt runways before parts of them were later rebuilt with gravel surfaces.
The relatively upgraded airports used simple gravel or lime-soil runways, while a small number of key airports were reinforced with cement concrete.
In short, the Far East Empire's current airport landscape was "advanced in patches, backward as a whole."
That made Baoji Suburban Airport seem somewhat ahead of its time among the Far East Empire's many airports.
Such design and standards were also driven by East Africa's practical needs. From Gwadar Port all the way to Baoji, the transport aircraft flying the route were basically large planes, so the airport's load-bearing standards naturally had to be higher.
This was not reflected only in Baoji Suburban Airport. Shule Airport, Guihua Airport, and the Shancheng Airport still under construction were all the same.
Besides its runways, Baoji Suburban Airport, in the entire Far East Empire
After He Xin, Frederick, and the others stepped off the transport plane, the airport staff at Baoji Suburban Airport had already prepared to receive them. Among them was Waboll, the airport supervisor from East Africa Huayuan Aviation Company.
At the airports jointly operated by the Far East Empire and East Africa, East African employees and managers were indispensable. After all, in this era,