@@RealRetrimark Covid 19 has put everything on hold and flights are very limited. Prior to the pandemic, there have been weekly flights from South Africa.
@@RealRetrimark Yes, and during this past year the Mantis hotel has been closed with staff no longer there. The Mantis is owned by an International group of hotel owners. If someone got there by boat, I think they would still have to be quarantined for 2 weeks. Do you know any more about that?
I never went to business school, but you mean to tell me that 300 million was spent on an airport that is barely usable ?? Someone wasn't smart enough to figure this out before the airport was built ??? But what do I know ??
This video is over a year old. There is now at least one commercial flight weekly and during the peak of tourist seasons, there are two flights. They both come out of South African Air Lines base in Johannesburg. The flights go to Namibia Airport for refueling and there is one flight per month going from st. Helena to Ascension.
And since this video was made, there is another hotel, the Mantis which is brand new and is built into an area previously occupied by an historic structure. In addition to the Consulate Hotel, there is also the Wellington House Hotel just down the street. There are also several high quality bed and breakfasts in different parts of the island that are superb in quality.
@@williamfulgham2010 I've watched enough to agree with you Isn't the problem wind sheer and there was talk of blasting off the tops of the 2 peaks that exaggerate the problem
@@markmitchell450 Yes the way I understand it, it was surveyed from an airflow standpoint and it was finally determined it would not be worth the extreme cost to remove those 2 obstructions. Compared to some airports in other parts of the world, the Saint Helena strip is very navigable. It compares very favorably to the airstrip at Aspen, Colorado, US where the same size aircraft make the trips safely.
I agree, he should have at least done a go-around, I think he was over cautious about the crosswind. You know that it's a crosswind causing the wind shear, so they say.
NAPOLEON was poisoned. a cowardly act by his british enemies and some He tought that they are his ally there😢. for 1815-1820 5 yrs of slow and Agonizing weakness by poisoning the Emperor of Arsenic. until his health began to weak until he succumb to it.. that is why 19 yrs after his death. NAPOLEON'S BODY was still very much preserved like it was not rotting. because when ARSENIC POISON can kill a man slowly. ARSENIC can still preserved TISSUES..
@@mrboo3049 The arsenic poisoning theory has been backed up in recent years with advanced forensic hair analysis's taken from samples in France at his final resting place. Of course as historians get things wrong, history has him recorded as dying of stomach cancer.
300 million euros for an airport on a small island with 4000 inhabitants to boost the local economy. Really ? This is why every single person should avoid paying taxes whenever they can. I bet half of that money wasn't even spent on the airport.
Napoleon lays in an unmarked grave? Are you people demented? This grave site was Chose by Napoleon himself. Napoleon casket a few tons of it was later removed and carried by I believe 40 man and sailed back to Paris. France owns the property and has been maintaining it to the highest standards. Napoleon lays in an unmarked grave? You discredited your broadcast 1:55 sec after it started, 4 years ago. That Has to be some kind of "how stupid to I think my audience is" award. Shameful really. Napoleon was in exile he was not a prisoner. Gee that program is so bias it is borderline ridiculous.
@@alljunk4824 as far as laws are concerned ‘Code Napoleon’ is still the basis of many of the legal systems in many European countries. History is history, Doesn’t excuse but helps to understand the causes and the reasons why things happen. After that, you make your own mind up.
@@alljunk4824 sorry thought were replying to a different comment. As regards the exile and / or imprisonment of Napoleon, I’m retired police. When I was working and prevented a persons free movement then I could be prosecuted for false imprisonment. My country’s laws are based on the British system. Just to be clear, I’m not saying he was falsely imprisoned as I’m sure the British made laws to back up what they did but as he wasn’t free to leave St. Helena then it was imprisonment. Yes he was in exile but wasn’t free to choose where he was exiled. By the way one of Napoleon’s doctors was from Cobh and is buried in my local graveyard.
@@patfleming3835 "One of Napoleon’s doctors was from Cobh and is buried in my local graveyard." Wow that is quite something. Ok, well I think we disagree on the difference between exile and imprisonment. Exile as I know it is to be banished from your country. Imprisonment is to be physically confined usually in a jail. Now you make a very valid point. The British likely played on words here, Napoléon clearly could not leave the island but at the same time I think the British understood that if they were to call his exile as putting Napoléon in jail there would have been a serious uproars in France. Cheers.
*A man that was directly responsible for the deaths of 3 million people and hundreds of thousands of civilians......treated like a hero....unbelievable!*
The South African construction company Basil Read spent years blasting tons of mountain rock to create a landfill base material for the air strip. An entirely new roadbed and road had to be constructed from the other side of the island where materials and equipment could be offloaded from ships. The construction figure also included a high quality industrial dock that was built in a valley called Ruperts, which is parallel to Jamestown. The entire engineering and construction project resulted in internatonal awards being issued to Basil Read. Unfortunately the company eventually had to file for bankruptcy because of the tremendous cost involved over a long period of time.
