Tell Nebula to get that Android app out already! Please ensure it can run the audio in the background a la KZfaq Premium! Please and thank you!

An Android app is in development! No ETA yet but I know it's pretty much top priority

@@Wendoverproductions Lol, I'm aware it's in the works, I'm just bugging at every opportunity because it's the only thing holding me back from subscribing. I get 80-90% of my content through my phone, so it's the make or break point for me.

Hello wendover. Happy new year, how much time left in this decade for you? 9:43pm at time of writing for me

@ynwa forever sadly not

So true.

Almost forget. Lol Hope theres a change in this 20s.

And the Paramaribo one.

Suriname’s airports are truly third world, even more third world than Rwanda’s.

@@brianlau172 Rwanda has one of the best airports in Africa?

You rock wendover

21:39 for people too lazy to do the math

What timezone?

whats the time zone?

hell ya buddy. just gonna watch it now though cause you rock

Yeah, a bit of South African and Jamaican in there too

@@RealUlrichLeland that accent is so cursed

She said "people doesn't want to see". That's a bit of poor English too.

I think that's just called speaking English as a second language? lol. she kinda sounds normal to me

I don’t think English is her second language…

this is exactly what it’s happening to me

Didn't watch the whole thing but it seems the HLE airport was a fail, for the same reason that bridge in Tacoma Narrows, OR, USA fell, namely, the wind. Here in America we also subsidize farmers to live in out of the way places so we're no different.

@@raylopez99 You should finish it, alot of the key benifits are explained in the closing minutes of the documentry. From a personal view, though it hasn't had the most brilliant of starts, I'm directly benifiting from the airport being there. I was able to see my family in 2 days stay two weeks and head back, which would have been impossible before, I'm not alone alot of St Helenians have been able to go home for the first time in years as it is now less of a time requirement to get home. A failure wouldn't deliver that.

@@gerwyngeorge1258 Well that's nice, glad to hear that. I guess some folks in the UK don't mind subsidizing your travel anymore than my country folk mind subsidizing farmers. Still an economic failure however, but so is most of Amtrak (public trains) in the USA.

@@raylopez99 its abit more complicated than that and I don't think this documentry really goes much into enough depth about the islands economics if I'm honest. St Helena has always been a dependency, so has relied heavily to be subsidised by the UK. It had a short period in the 1950s, where it was making a surplus due to the flax industry but that was short lived with the introduction of synthetic fibres, but regardless the island needs to continue to exist its a British terratory, and it needs to be sustained. Making St Helena a more self sustaining terratory has always been a key aim of the local government and its people, but ultimately with the logistics of the islands location and what economic opportunities was available to it, it was always difficult. The airport in conjunction with the introduction of tourism seemed the best long term solution to establish a path towards self sufficienty and improving the livelihoods of local people. It not intended to be a massive short term return like striking oil in the desert, but a gradual catalyst for development. I understand from the perspective of a developed nation (i reside in the UK now) its difficult to imagine these challenges, but I'd say increased visitors is a positive sign.

@@raylopez99 Coming from Vienna/Austria, a city in a socialist democracy, literally everybody and everything in my everyday life is "Subsidized" but yet Vienna consistently ranks No.1 internationally on quality-of-life indicators. I might lack the necessary capitalist understanding but I have the urge to ask: Why does financial substitution and lack of Monetary profit of a public institution with the goal of increasing Quality of live for their people (Speaking of the airport,The airline operates in the green AFAIK) make it a failure?

dustisdeadbodies85 Well said!

Agreed, i loved this documentary.

You got sad I wished to escalate the violence

That's why people call the media "fake news"

I felt sad too. Sam is a great narrator. The video title is perfect

hes such a simp but we still like him

*a wild evan edinger appears*

It's everything from pseudo-American to Kiwi with hints of Pirates of the Caribbean.

@@waqqashanafi And subtle nutty notes with a dry texture...

Centuries of inbreeding

@@tanmaysingal2179 then they would look similar and they still had ways of getting off the island too.

Does Wendover delete comments?

The RMS Mullet

@@ellinar1 or perhaps in this instance RMS stands for Royal Mullet Ship

Couldn't tell from video if RMS still offered passenger service. Also, whether the airport is used for cargo delivery.

Kevin D I know RMS Saint Helena was decommissioned in 2018, but I don't know whether another ship serves the island for cargo. I agree, that wasn't clear.

RMS St Helena was the last ocean-going Royal Mail Ship and is one of only two remaining passenger-cargo liners in the world. It has been sold in 2018 and renamed MNG Tahiti by the new owner, a security firm that will use this vessel as floating armoury for anti-piracy services. You can track the current position on the maritime traffic web site by entering the name or the IMO number 8716306

BECAUSE THEY ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. WITH NOWHERE TO GO AND THEIR ONLY WAY IS KINDA F______D lol sorry for the CAPS

40X as interesting ;)

Nah, not enough people are signing up to Nebula; they are trying to boost that. Though, it is a nice documentary.

Hopefully this becomes his most-watched video! Good luck!

Just wondering, which 'nebulous causes' are you talking about? Thanks

I remember watching a few of Wendovers old videos a number of year back (a few of the ____'s geography problem videos) and thinking 'eh, seems sort of like a simple take on things' and went on my way. Finally circled back and watched some of his newer videos and... holy shit. They're so good. This video here definitely earned my subscription.

Inherently Wicked Chauvinist lol you’re irrelevant

How is tourism doing now that the pandemic is over?

Same bro

Same

And i get to get up in 4 hours for work

@@MeloFloww ndtnm

Same

Almost like this was the intended purpose.

Well...no...he outlines the lack of impact a once weekly flight of 90 people has on the island

Eye wanted to go as soon as he showed where it was

I hope so!

@@warbler1984 Everything has to start from somewhere

Most definitely, they should stop concentrating on tourism (not entirely neglecting though). Business is key. Brazil - South Africa could become a strong link with St. Helena as a frequent touch down. To make South Americans feel welcome, you need to improve your Portuguese language skills. Start to put signs up in Portuguese, offer bread & breakfast in Portuguese. Angola by the way is also a Portuguese speaking country, so yes, teach your kids at school.

They'd almost be doing their own small scale imitation of an Icelandair or Aer Lingus if they did that - operating from the middle of an ocean corridor to bridge the lands on either side.

I guess y'all weren't paying attention about the limitations of plane size due to wind shear issues causing operational profitability issues for airlines

​@@gw6667 Yep. The max range of a 737 MAX is about 3500 miles too, less than ideal for a 4000 mile round trip to Receife, especially if it cannot land in St Helena.

And it's about planes, too! Could it get any better?

i didnt see it was 50 minutes, oh no but oh yes

Well, end it off for me

It's still 2019 here.

@@QuarioQuario54321 hello, we are talking to you from the future

So happy I didn’t have to pay for nebula

well they are actually being paid. (ads/nebula/youtube premium/sponsors/patreon/other)

speedy01247 obviously but this is easily subscription level content

fake account, prolly bot likes too

Shut up man

That one life saved 37:35 makes this whole airport worth it... not to mention every other potential one in the future. Id like to visit this place, I'm going t check the cost of flights and see if I can add it to a trip I wanted to do in Africa anyways. I just hope they let me fly my drone there and its not too windy for drone flying... I can imagine there is some incredible views here!

@@drone_video9849 That would value the human population as greater than the GDP of the planet...

Unsubtle Major Dictator it could be seen that way. But since they didn’t build it to save one kid, and was already built - I think it’s okay with that lens to look through to say it makes the airport worth it. I know what you mean, I hope what I meant also comes across.

Unsubtle Major Dictator the USA 🇺🇸 has the largest GDP, it also has the most billionaires and millionaires and top 4 richest men in the world and has the only company worth 1 trillion dollars ( Apple Inc)

Unsubtle Major Dictator true first billionaire in the world was also American, he’s rather famous as well his name was Rockefeller. The United States of America 🇺🇸 is also the easiest country to get rich in. You could talk about China 🇨🇳 accept China has 10x the amount of people the USA does literally meaning that the average American makes 6.5 times as much as the average Chinese. The USA 🇺🇸 still has a larger economy than China at 22 trillion ( 2019) and china’s 2nd at 15 trillion ( 2019). The USA 🇺🇸 still makes 7 trillion dollars a year more than China. Russia’s GDP is 1.8 trillion a year that means that the Americans makes 19.7 trillion a year more than Russia 🇷🇺 the Americans do spend the most on their military at 740 billion( 2020) but they use just 2 percent of their GDP Russia spends 43 billion a year but they spend 3.3 percent of their GDP if the Americans also spent 3.3 percent they would be spending 1.2 trillion a year on their military.

excellent comment!

Start a go fund me, we will all contribute

A medivac from where? At Helena?

Oof.

They have the power to not to take his calling card!

Just checked flights. Non for the next 6days

@@chokstachan8635 Damn.

Corona pulling up on the scene rubbing hands like Birdman

I would definitely watch that

And the whole island could be a good setting for a TV drama.

Reminded me of Dwight when he said right arm of the CEO hahahahaha ♡♡♡

How about "Come fly with me 2"? :-)

@@AristoCat221 Assistant *to* the CEO :p

It seems so cozy. I was just looking at it on google maps, and there are so many nice little cottage houses with a ton of land nicely tucked away along the tree lines. It would be so comfy waking up, seeing the forest and the mountains, but knowing that you’re still surrounded on all sides by thousands of miles of ocean.

Are you trying to tell me that this wasn't partially paid for by St. Helena to boost tourism?

It is trending #18 right now

Tom Sko 11 now

Don't bet on it.

@gurusson, No and why does it even matter??

Calling them journalism is too much of a compliment

This sounds ike something I'd say if i had to write a long-ass paper for school and needed an all-in-one source.

Integrity in journalism? Ha, that doesn't exist and will never exist

Journalists who cover aviation should have to pass a certification to demonstrate they actually know something about aviation and aircraft.

I'm not clear what you mean by that.

I'm a Capetonian, planning to visit some time next year

He was saving up his energy

He had to begin the new decade with the right leg. Or wing.

Your point?

He would of turned into a legend of the royal who touched up 90% of all the kids on an island

Ever heard of Pitcairn Islands?

lollll

I was so pleased when the postponement of PA's visit was mentioned. I wonder how many buildings, projects, venues etc., that were officially opened by him, have taken down, or covered up their commemorative plaques?

Heheheh.

A horror story in seven words.

British Tabloids are cancer and should be all arrested. They are still going on about Diana decades on her from death in full on shit like "SECRETS EXPOSED".

The word "tabloid" in the UK doesn't have the same connotation that it does in the US. It just describes the printing format, which tend to just be a single fold and distinguished from the "broadsheet" format. That said, there _are_ definitely "tabloid journalism" papers which focus on more sensationalist stories with what we might, today, consider "clickbait" headlines.

@@StarkRG In the UK the literal meaning of "tabloid" refers to the format, but is generally used disparagingly about the content. Some quality papers now use this smaller format too though. I've no idea what it means in the USA.

@@evaluateanalysis7974 here in the US it means the same thing as the figurative sense you described for the UK: sensationalist, trivial, and bullshit content

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its the most useful airport 🤣

Airport of Castellón (Valencia, Spain), which has not had a single flight for about 4 years due to being built by a company "friend of the government" that earned a solid amount of money collected via taxes: Am I a joke to you?

Colin Copland “assistant regional manager” 😂

he will soon become manager

The Devil Wears Prada

From time to time I send Dwight faxes...from himself...from the future...

The security room was probably beer and pizza and they just didn’t want him joining in

Exactly. I wanted to hear more, to see more of the island, just more!

Bill wanted a minute to get on film, and the Exec did not indulge him. That was a bit sad. Someone do an interview with him! Bill! I want to know what you are all about my friend!

You live there? What are the internet prices right now? Do you have a undersea cable or pure sat?

@@whuzzzup I'll go out on a limb and suggest they didn't run an undersea cable for ~4500 people.

whuzzzup theyre pretty expensive

Elon Musk's starlink will be up soon

I wonder just how many tourists Wendover will be individually responsible for sending over. I imagine a few hundred at least

I knew it I wasn't the only one who noticed that.

If you listen you'll hear the door close after camera passes through. There are such things as gimbles guys...

Such a badass!

If the door is meant to be closed at all times, doesn't that make it less of a door and more of a wall?

Might have been a 3rd person trailing them who closed the door?

With respect to covid: I was just visiting their gov homepage and it states „We wish to reassure you that at this time there are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 on the Island.“ stay safe everyone

Hey, I hope Covid HELPS these isolated places by making things way more remote friendly. Remote personal assistants are in demand now, I know if I had kids or something paying $13 an hour to have all my appointments and odd jobs coordinated would be hella worth it.

As of now, they have had no cases.

@@LeviForWaifu well they don't have good internet. So working remotely in the way most in the developed world means would be impossible.

@@crazyrobots6565 only because every Karen and boomer expects video calls constantly. You can do basically everything that comes with being a DPA with a 128k modem and a landline phone if nobody is a tard who expects zoom calls. And you need to spend money to make money.

I know, right...

I'm in the roller coaster enthusiast community. We know this shit. *Ride stops for safety reasons or because some guest on it is ill or has his phone out. Media: "Rollercoaster gets stuck!! EVACUATION!! Are roller coasters safe?!?"

@@TripleTSingt remember the time they use tape on an aircraft and people goes nut like its gonna fall apart like lego? Turns out they used industrial aircraft duct tape. Who would have thought right? Gosh dang news channels just want to land some title.

@@anhduc0913 They want viewership and money, that's why

Plane: *wiggles* Media: EMBRAER BOEING A330 ABORTS LANDING, THREATENS TO DESTROY AUSTRALIA

I'd definitely recommend listening to his podcast, Extremities, he has a lot more information on the history of the island, the episode on Napoleon's time on the island was my favorite personally

Geeth San This🙌🏻. I was looking to comment something like this, but you said it perfectly.

You said period meaning you put two periods unless your on your period

Yeah Embraer seem like great planes for smaller runways. Perfect for aerfields or small airports

Eu sou brasileiro também. Eu também senti o mesmo orgulho.

E jets are probably the best regional jet used by U.S. carriers. I wish Delta would use the 190, but theyre supposed to be using the Cseries to our airport. JetBlue uses the 190, but we will see.

For some reason I thought Embraer was French but I was thinking about Dassault. Damn good for Brazil man

Building a airframe is one thing, where are the engines, controls and avionics all built.

Did everyone say hello to bill?

@@truetechchannel they did

I'm pretty sure that was the same Bill as the one that got interviewed at 27:39

I thought I was watching "the office" for a minute. Whether comedically or naively, it was brilliant.

Where would they go if not international? It's literally *further* to not go international, it's 4x further.

Sılaym videosy

me too!

You two emo wimps should remember that this airport cost 100s millions of dollars. It is a wasteful vanity project, a obscene misallocation of taxpayers money!

@@sharefactor nice copypasta

I cried.....I'm unstable I don't care haha

@@ae112 they don't mean it. That's why the other guy said "nice copypasta" :)

Crashed satellites?

Bike

Walking on water

Maybe helicopter

The Jesus shuttle

Embraer makes wonderful planes, on which flying is actually fun again.

Flown on the E190 many times within Australia and it is a lovely aeroplane.

The new ones that Alaska Airlines bought are both extremely pretty inside and out, and fun to fly on. Like a Dash-8 without the prop-drone.

When I fly from London to Honduras I make a Stopover in Mexico City to change planes. The 2 hour flight on the Embraer from Mexico City to San Pedro Sula is always my favourite part of the trip.

A lot of positivity! God Bless!

"hello, Bill!"

A workplace sitcom at an airport sounds amazing, I would watch that for sure

You should watch borderline. It's an amazing british mocumentary show about a regional airport.

@@samcavanagh7993 Might I be able to introduce you to Wings?

@@kerryhess3641 Oh wow, had no idea that existed

Aren't those his normal glasses ? so not sunglasses ?

HHahahaha when he realises as well, classs

Lol.

How did you catch that

Glasses-ception

I did a search for round trip tickets from NY to London and it’s about 400$. Of course it’s a totally different thing, but still. Damn.

Because theres no first or business class which cheapens the normal seats in major routes

From orlando it's about a 3 day trip with multiple multi hour layovers for a grand total of a little over 2000$

j c That’s actually less than I thought it would be, though long. Even if that’s one way, it is cheaper than I would have guessed.

USD, CAD, or AUD?

Lol im still in 2019

What's 2020 like?

Unfortunately, its 20 minute late here.

I still have to wait 4 hours.

Lucky. It's noon where I am.

darren goddard absolutely thought the same!!

What's up with that airport

@@firehawk8521 Precision German engineering! 🥁😂🤣🇩🇪

@@ryanmendes6520 No, because it's been stuck in development Hell and has been incomplete for decades.

@@firehawk8521 The question is: what's _not_ up with that airport?

The Germans forgot to be German while building Berlin airport 🥴

We all are

F in the chat for Earth

Yea I was just about to comment about that...

@ben yosep it's not all china's fault

I bet its easy for them to monitor it there though. Like if they dont fly anyone in, they dont have to worry about the virus on their island.