{"book":"adl0981","page":75,"text":"Kabul Airport\nAn agreement for the construction of the Kabul Airport was signed with the Soviet Techno-Export Agency in May of this year and work began in July. The major part of this work will lie in the construction of runways, taxiways, hangars, gas station, electrical and water power houses, canalisation, central heating unit, passenger lounge, communications unit, and roadworks along the airport. It is planned to have the work on the Kabul Airport completed in entirety within three years.\n\nKandahar's International Airport\nON 30th October, 1957, work was started on the construction of the International Airport of Kandahar.\nToday, all the technical constructions of the airport are completed or nearing completion. This airport is destined to become the most important one in Afghanistan and one of the largest in Asia. It will be able to accommodate the latest type of modern jet aircraft and take care of the maximum amount of traffic. In addition to an efficient terminal building, a hotel will be constructed at the airport itself to provide for passengers in transit.\nThe construction work so far has been carried out by the Morrison Knudsen Afghanistan Company.\nThe total area of the airport is 3,200 hectares or 16,000 jiribs at an estimated elevation of 1,009 metres above sea level, and the construction of the following items comprise the aims of the technical part of this project:\n1. An asphalt runway 3,200 metres long and 45 metres wide.\n2. The latest type of runway lights.\n3. Three high-speed turn-offs and connecting taxiways.\n\nTop: The 3,200 metres long runway of the International Airport, Kandahar. 2nd: One of the hangars for future jet planes. 3rd: Customs Office and Control Tower. 4th: Terminal building of Kandahar International Airport\n\n72","chars":1776,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00075.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/75","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/75","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0981/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0981_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}