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You know the one i mean it's this one the one we all know this is what it is im going to say it now here it comes yes, its the one you think it is youve guessed it the jewel of west london here it comes this is what it is it's this everyones favourite airport you know the one its what you've all been waiting for here it comes now
He shoots his videos like an old-school BBC documentary presenter. Both he and the camera are in motion. On RU-vid, that actually feels pretty fresh and dynamic.
Now he needs to answer why Atlanta has so few. It's a real pain to fly through that city especially between 4 PM and 6 PM. They really need a 2nd airport.
“Acknowledging aviation heritage, Such as Aviation drive or Heritage Avenue” You deliver these lines with such a tone that I can’t discern if they’re jokes or not but I’m still floored
For car enthusiasts, the great thing about unused Aerodromes is they can easily be used as race tracks or drag strips. The top gear track is at an aerodrome. Both the top gear test track (aka Dunsfold Aerodrome) and Goodwood were on the map for WW2 aerodromes.
It would be nice if the runways were kept open. Silverstone destroyed their last remaining runway a few years ago. Thruxton and Goodwood retain the airfield inside their race-track. Pembrey has the race track separate and still retains an airfield. There are quite a few other ex-aerodromes used for car racing - Bedford, Snetterton, Poddington (Santa Pod drag strip), Llandow, Castle Combe, Croft, Wymeswold, and maybe the aforementioned Dunsfold at least for the time being. I may have missed some. They also have car days on Bruntingthorpe and Elvington, and they occasionally run cars on Sywell, Turweston, Kemble, North Weald and maybe others.
Thanks Jay, this video got me context marks on my A Level English exam (Text B was an aviation text from 1928 and I mentioned how in the olden days only posh people could fly).
I just don't understand the criteria, if we count every airport within 60 miles of NYC we'd get more than 6. Even if we ignore the smaller general aviation airports. EWR, JFK, LGA, HPN, TEB, ISP, SWF, TTN are all within 60 miles.
As a Londoner I can say that the diagram at the beginning at 0:10 is _absolutely_ spot on. Christ I might as well just get a taxi to Munich if I have to go all the way to stanstead to get a flight.
"Not just any place possessed the appropriate properties-to-be-propelled-into-a-proper-popular-passenger-port-for-people" **gold medal drop** aaaaaand subscribed.
omg these sheer amount of production that went into this is giving me a headache. You did _such_ a great job of making this! PS I flew from City for the first time last January. It's the first airport I've been to where you don't have to take your iPad out of your bag at security. It's amazing!
@@ric112 absolute wankers! But I had a daddy in the UK who paid for the flight so I wasn't exactly going to insist on an easyjet flight to Gatwick. Please believe me I'm not rich in any capacity. I'm glad I have very incompetent landlords who don't seem to realize I pay the rent a week late every month (here in Berlin).
This the first time I've come across Jay and find his presenting informative, entertaining and funny, so I'll be checking out more of what he,s offered on RU-vid.
I love you man. You videos are some of humanities finest creations. I would pay handsomely to bare witness to these feats of video excellence. Such outrageous, quirky, informative and fun content. Please do not deprive us of your publications. No matter how long it takes we must see more! Godspeed Jay Foreman
I was watching the video for like a millionth time and suddenly realized that the Top Gear test track is a former airport close to London and must be somewhere in the video. And sure enough - 3:32. For like 0.3 of a second. I appreciate your hard work, Jay!
Hey, I just asked if he said wankers! Isn't that bad... isn't a wanker like an idiot? Yes, as soon as we can come over again, I'm asking for a ticket for the Wanker Aeroport. Lol 😂😂 😁
American here. Is there some stereotype about the airport and/or the type of people who use it that makes that line funny, or is it just absurdist humor?
@@timothymclean It's in the middle of the London financial district, so the stereotype is that it is pretty much only used by bankers(wankers). I've used it once when I found a cheap last minute flight to Rome, but pretty much all the other passangers appeared to be businesspeople so the stereotype holds.
@@timothymclean Just to echo phildman132's explanation, the City (capital C) is a metonym for the high-finance sector in the UK so it's like having an airport called New York Wall Street. I agree that it's used by wankers and I'm the sort of wanker who uses words like 'metonym'.
@@notdaveschannel9843 Where you will find the Official Collective Noun for Bankers... A Wunch, as in "a Wunch of Bankers." PS, I'll let you off just this once for the use of the term, 'metonym". Just don't do it again.
You really are extremely talented. The writing and the presentation of this - and indeed all your vids - is excellent. You deserve a much bigger audience - and much more money. BBC take note. Especially about the money part.
The United Kingdom of Fiddly and Complicated would never work. Fiddly has had a long running feud with Complicated since the flitch of bacon was stolen in 1883. They'd never agree to share space on the name of the country.
@@XaviMacBash Well in London especially we are at least trying to fix the mistakes and improve our transport, so I don't think that we are necessarily 'the worst'.
Well London city makes a ton of sense when flying from Holland. Little airport congestion in both airports drastically cuts down travel time. Also it's a lot more relaxed clearing wanker security then the Luton prison camp.
I love the no nonsense presentation, clever use of video footage, photos and diagrams and of course, the quintessential, deadpan British humour. RU-vid needs more channels and content like this. Subbed!
@Christopher Poitras @@NimhLabs Perhaps I should've written "no frills" instead. Regardless, aside from the typically British humour, his videos are indeed refreshingly "straight to the point", without a fancy intro accompanied by an annoying sound clip and no longwinded preamble.
"aviation heritage such as aviation drive and heritage avenue" hahaha honestly I love the kind of dry humour and editing in your videos, keep up the great work!
Hi, thank you for these videos. This one made me smile on a day I wasn't feeling very well. I like the humor mixed in with the information, it reminds me a lot of the Horrible Histories newscaster style. Thank you. - new subscriber
And I was like "Oy! Last time I've been to London, I flew home from London City and I'm not a wanker! That's at least what I thought when I was waiting in the Bloomberg section at the seats with free wifi and charging stations after eating my croissant from Pret-A-Manger..."
'Who wouldn't let us in for filming'. Gotta wonder why. I used to work in a small niche-interest museum (Booth Museum in Hove) and we'd have been delighted to have an enthusiastic RU-vidr come in to raise the profile of the collections and exhibits. It's not as if you're causing problems or saying the museum is shit - you're doing the opposite by generating interest in a subject a lot of people hadn't realised they were interested in!
Jay said on twitter that the permission denied for filming part was intended as a joke and that there wasn’t anything interesting enough to be put into video
I used to spend too many hours on that game when I was a kid. It was already a old game when I played it in the late '90s on an old mackintosh, but it was the game I probably spent most time on between the ages of 8-11.
Started watching this and thought Jay looks really fresh faced and noticed it was nine years ago! Jay has been making these amazing documentaries for 10 years, with nowhere near the views he deserves, they are so good!
This came up in my recommendations and I clicked because I was curious about the answer, but wasn't expecting it to be delivered in such a riotously funny way! I'm looking forward to checking out more of your channel :)
ImAnderZEL Americans, please, for the love of God, stop pointing out when British humour is in a video. Containing British humour is in the nature of a humorous British video. This does not need to be pointed out on every RU-vid video that is British ad contains humour. It is the case in all of them, by definition. It is good to see that you enjoy such videos, and saying that you do is, of course, going to be appreciated by the creator of the video and likely to be an opinion shared by other members of Yuutube who may like to discuss this with you. However, pointing out that a BMW video contains Bavarian cars, or that an irish dancing video contains irish dancing, is not very helpful to discussion.
Literally been rewatching Unfinished London for ages now (I love this series), and I just noticed that you just flipped the images for Heston, Norholt and Biggin Hill
Jay's style of humour is SO damn good. It's honestly so refreshing to see someone with such a unique style. The delivery is always spot on, and the quality is always there no matter how far back in time you go!
For those curious: 00:32 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines 01:14 The British Grenadiers (arr. Jacob Kappey) 01:42 Look at Me Now (from Laurel and Hardy, performed by the Beau Hunks) 02:07 Thunderbirds Theme Song by Barry Gray 02:35 Speakeasy by Ennio Morricone 03:47 Railroad Rap from Simcity 2000 04:19 The Old Spinning Wheel by Hank Snow & Chet Atkins 05:43 Calling All Workers by Eric Coates 06:29 Tijuana Taxi by Herb Alpert and the TJB 07:20 Uh! Oh! by The Nutty Squirrels 09:24 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury and the Blockheads 09:34 This Must Be the Place by Talking Heads
03:47 is from Simcity 2000. You can hear it on this video here at 13:10: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--S-FZWj6760.html *Edit* It's called 'Railroad Rap' found the name on another video (also I think the one I linked is a cover)
Fabulous stuff Jay - I loved the "only used by W**" line but also thoroughly appreciated "It became London's no 2 airport, a title it still has to this day"....brilliant stuff.....
They'd have managed it too if it had been to the Americans who once stopped me outside Stratford tube station wanting directions to Shakespeare's house.
as a Russian, I watch because jay is funny and his videos are surprisingly interesting not to gain a clear advantage in our upcoming invasion though, don't worry :^)
I was raised on Grahame Park (GP) and I like that fact you filmed the new builds and not actually on the estate it self . Fun fact : all the buildings on the estate are named after aeroplanes and are alphabetically ordered with aeroplanes staring with A at south end of Lanacre Avenue ( now Bristol Avenue due to all of GP being demolished due to the bad crime there)
I grew up near the estate in the 90s and visited friends there often which always seemed to be a tense experience. Never had any trouble myself, so perhaps its reputation was way worse than the reality?
@@TOTN17 Sadly yes. After a long and protracted battle. However, it's been "being turned into a housing estate" for a solid decade, they just haven't got full permission, and it's still being used as an airport for the time being, albeit with restricted use.
Actually, since you ask, back when we made this video, we had no idea you get more money if your video's longer than 10 mins. Also, it wasn't monetised at all. (But anyway, it is now, so, cha-ching! :) )
It reminded me of the infamous Family Guy vomiting scene. There's such a thing as "beating a joke into the ground", and I fear that skit went a bit too close to the line...
Just found this channel. Thought it was just going to be a poor quality documentary and perhaps kinda boring. Wow, was I wrong! Very professional, interesting, and quite hilarious! Better than anything on tv today. Love it! Keep 'em coming!
The building of Heathrow was a bit dodgy. The government wanted to build a long length runway for commercial flights when the war finished. So it bypassed planning laws with Emergency War Regulations under the pretence that the Americans needed an airbase that could accommodate the Superfortress. The only time one landed there was when Boeing wanted to test out the runways were long enough to accommodate the civilian airliner that was based on it.
The Top Gear Test Track is actually Dunsfold Aerodrome (EGTD). You'd know if you flew a VFR approach there. You'd be looking out for tyre marks, a hangar with the Top Gear logo on the roof, caravan debris, stacks of tyres, one of which might have a few bits of a Koenigsegg in it, and a white 747 which seems to be a permanent fixture.
@@MrSupercar55 that is permanent isnt it? I know it's not cemented or anything but I was under the impression it was decommissioned and couldnt move... literally or legally so instead of tearing it apart they just said "meh, it looks good for the show" and kept it. On another note; isnt the track used exclusively by lotus now? I honestly dont know if TG is even still on and I know they designed the track (or atleast helped) and used it as a test track for the... evora I think it was. Though I was also under the impression it was completely shut down to all air traffic except in the most extreme of emergencies due to the tire walls and whatnot so I could be completely wrong on every account
The lead-up to introducing Heathrow sounds like you were paying homage to Monty Python. Seriously, I can just imagine it between a couple of their sketches.
Had a good giggle with the video! Specifically, Jay is paying homage to the (Miss) Anne Elk sketch with Graham Chapman and John Cleese. Loved it! (Both the homage and the original). Link to the Anne Elk one down below. Cheers! www.dailymotion.com/video/x2oh8ia
@@desperatemohammedantheworl5833 If you're getting annoyed by something like that and get satisfied by clicking a dislike button then oh my your life is pathetic
Chicago also has a few airports that name themselves after the city despite not being within the limits of the city. These two examples include Gary/Chicago International Airport, located in nearby Gary, Indiana, and Chicago Rockford International Airport, located in Rockford, Illinois. While Gary’s naming is understandable, as it is located extremely close to the city of Chicago, Rockford’s airport name does not, as it takes around an hour and a half drive east down I-90 to get to Chicago.
