He shoots his videos like an old-school BBC documentary presenter. Both he and the camera are in motion. On RUclips, 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.
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
“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
"Not just any place possessed the appropriate properties-to-be-propelled-into-a-proper-popular-passenger-port-for-people" **gold medal drop** aaaaaand subscribed.
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.
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 RUclips.
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.
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. RUclips 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.
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).
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.
"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!
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: ruclips.net/video/-S-FZWj6760/видео.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.....
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'.
'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 RUclipsr 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
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 RUclips 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.
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!
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
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..."
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.
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?
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).
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 :^)
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.
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 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.
@@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.
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
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! :) )
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
@@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
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...
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
Joe - if it were, I might consider turning my TV on for the first time in over half a decade. It’s so dusty, everything I’d watch would look like it’s set in winter. Yes, I did just respond to a 3-year-old comment.
Jay, I'm on my second video, and officially subscribed. You teach me more about London than I'll ever care to know, and more importantly, you give me a serious case of the giggles. Thanks.
This is like a documentary that plays in the middle of the night while you have a mental breakdown because you realize you're an disappointment. But uh, better
Near to Leighton Buzzard, there's a bridge that crosses the West Coast Mainline with old graffiti stating 'NO AIRPORT HERE' as a protest stop the construction of Roskill's Cublington Airport which would be located very close to Leighton Buzzard. You can see this graffiti as you drive along the A4146 bypass which runs alongside the railway.
2024 commenter here 👋 the recent Westminster protests which involved a sh*tload of tractors weren’t a million miles away from how the village of Stewkley (next door to Cublington) protested London’s third airport in the late 60s/early 70s. There’s plenty of archive footage here on RUclips if anyone fancies having a look at some oddly-accented farmers telling an American broadcaster that Roskill can essentially bog off their laaaaaand. Interesting how much of an effect protesting with tractors still has all these years later.
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!
He shoots his videos like an old-school BBC documentary presenter. Both he and the camera are in motion. On RUclips, that actually feels pretty fresh and dynamic.
I agree! Love his format. Very professional and fun to watch. Like a real program.
it's educational Monty Python
osriodore Only better
Perhaps because he was a staff on top gear?
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.
The Heathrow wait made me irrationally uncomfortable.
I thought he was going to say something like luton
I thought it was only me ... it drove me nuts
Just like when you're actually waiting at Heathrow
Loool I was watching it on double speed and it still drove me crazy
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
“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
Look them up. Those streets are real.
Jay Foreman I applaud the fact u still answer comments on your old videos . Keep it up
@@harshbansal7982 Its why he hasnt aged in 10 years. You look as young as the oldest video you support.
Jay Foreman they are, I live about 20 minutes away from them 👍🏾
@@JayForeman You missed Aerodrome road which has to be the most famous and is pretty big.
4:51 "The street names here acknowledge the areas' aviation heritage, such as aviation drive... and heritage avenue"
Gold
The "used by wankers" thing caught me so off guard lmao
I spat milk all over a fellow aerodrome user.
Round two got me
Dean Booker I was drinking apple juice at the time 😂
lol had to play back that one too!!! think he means Bankers :)
I had to replay it just to make sure I hadn’t misheard him lol
Using Sim City 2000 to show why it's hard to expand Croydon airport was genius.
at 3:48
Jan 2044 New Fucked Up City
cindybin2001 what the *FUCK* is wrong with profanity. It's the Internet
cindybin2001 Chill. Swearing is fucking fine. Stop being a child.
cindybin2001 let's sort this out like civilised people. Why do you think swearing is such a bad thing
"Not just any place possessed the appropriate properties-to-be-propelled-into-a-proper-popular-passenger-port-for-people"
**gold medal drop**
aaaaaand subscribed.
Lashan exactly!!! Top top 🙌🏽
Lashan agreed! This man’s a genius!!!
Look into the DVD extras to see the extended cut including "propeller propelled planes"
7:00
Bof!
The extremely long "here it is" bit leading up to Heathrow followed by an ad break delaying actually saying "Heathrow" was very funny.
I was disappointed that I didn’t get an ad before he talked about Heathrow. I would have laughed even harder than I already was!
@@sebastianrivera-tirado4309 I did get an ad before he talked about Heathrow and it made me crack up like nothing else.
Especially if youtube stopped working because of an "ad blocker" which I DO NOT HAVE!!!
Very Monty python like. 😆👍🏻
I have watched this video at least 5 times by now and just realized that he used the same picture 3 times at 3:07
LMAO
Nyancat7 Never even noticed until you mentioned that.
Nyancat7 😂😂
Wow, me neither, watching it a second time! Now I know!
He did it again in 4:00
"In a rare act of extreme forward planning"
haha xD
yup, brexcrap comes to mind :)))
@@Albimar17 brexshit is right there...
5:18 and this, ladies and gentlemen, is how you reach the famous 10-minute mark.
He spends about 20 seconds saying it. This video is 10 minutes 19 seconds long. Coincidence? I think not!
Indeed.😀👍
I think this video was made before the "10-minute meta" existed.
The 10 min meta was a thing in mid 2010s already@@oktayyildirim2911
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.
Also Sebring in Florida.
Brooklands in Surrey was also a racetrack and an airfield - it was also home to an aircraft factory in WW2
Silverstone was also an RAF base is I remember correctly.
Gimli airport in Manitoba was also converted into a drag racing strip.
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.
I usually land at London Tokyo and take a short 6,000 mile connection by rail to Paddington
I usually use the London Auckland airport. It's a bit less crowded.
how much would a taxi cost
@@AlonsoRules About $5500
Anthony Kernich just uber
london tokyo?
The presenting skills combined with acting, writing and editing skills? Fantastic.
and cute........
euwwww. seriousy ?@@chocolatcats
I feel like I am watching a Monty Python skit
You’re joking aren’t you?? It’s the reason I turned it off he is so irritating it’s untrue
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 RUclips.
this channel has such a monty python feel and i'm not even mad about it.
Why would anyone be mad about that lol
I'm waiting for the "I don't like Spam!" reference!
We all need more Monty Python in our lives.
why would you be mad about it
Oh my god thank you!
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.
How on earth can half of these be classed as "London" airports?
London City airport "To this day it's only used by wankers!" My sides literally split.
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.
Yeah am guilty of being an LCY wanker occasionally but it's really great and cute. However the sandwiches and drinks are megawankingly expensive
@@djlondon7956
Well the tube stops in front of it.
I can wait 10 minutes for a cheap drink.
I just spat my coffee out in the office - wasn't expecting that - quality! LOL
It's just like 'oh... :\ '
I love the no nonsense presentation, clever use of video footage, photos and diagrams and of course, the quintessential, deadpan British humour. RUclips needs more channels and content like this. Subbed!
"no nonsense presentation" did we watch the same video?
Did you misspell "every bit of nonsense presentation"
@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.
RUclips needs to be more British.
No nonsense? It was full of bland, tasteless, juvenile, cringy comedy and nonsense.
5:40 love how he used a green screen just to make the background blue
It's a blue screen I think
@@g.j.k.b.2324 the top of his head has a green tint so i think it’s a green screen lmao
@@samm44_ lmao you're right. Didn't catch that
He should’ve used a blue screen to make it green
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).
Glad to be of service! :)
oh my god! me too
I always land at London-Moscow Airport near London
Wtf are you talking about
Absolute class, had me laughing out loud
@@rodrigodetriano8273 Thank you :D
Just walk to the nearest airport in new Zealand if your are in London.
lol 😄
"To this day it's only used by wankers" - cut scene -
Amazing.
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.
"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!
5:20 when you need to hit a word requirement for an essay
fr
Even better, I got an ad right as that segment ended.
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
Red Door Productions wow
03:47 is from Simcity 2000. You can hear it on this video here at 13:10: ruclips.net/video/-S-FZWj6760/видео.html
*Edit* It's called 'Railroad Rap' found the name on another video (also I think the one I linked is a cover)
My man!
Finally
Thank you!! ❤
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.....
Britain just loves making every little thing "fiddly and complicated". That should be UK's national motto: "United Kingdom - Fiddly and Complicated."
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.
"we got there first and now we're the worst"
@@XaviMacBash I don't think we are the worst yet...
@@Mi-202 wot
@@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'.
3:32 Ah yes the most crucial aspect of the war effort, "The Top Gear Test Track"
Good spot! That be Dunsfold then.
'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 RUclipsr 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!
Also, '...only used by wankers' has had me laughing for about five minutes!
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
Cus he looks like a channal 4 type...
It's run by wankers.
The RAF museum might consider themselves above a lowly RUclips channel and more deserving of the likes of the Beeb. If so, they can go fly themselves!
London Stansted: Exists
Ryanair: Its free real estate
FRRR
Lol
That joke wasn't included on the ticket, extra £40 for the laughter...
@@michaelnewbold214 😀👍
@@just-a-subscriber Haha, Ryanair's flight number denomination and the acronym of "for real"... nice one!
Holy fuck good video :D Excellent British humor good execution of the facts and still funny to watch :)
***** you browse reddit too my friend? :D
***** cen i habe p250 sand dune pls
***** HELLLLOOO EVERYBODY IM ANDERZEL OF COURSE AND TODAY WE'RE PLAYING RUclips VIDEOS BECAUSE FUCK YOU THATS WHY
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 RUclips 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.
cindybin2001 why don't you do it?
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!
Only just noticed that myself.
"In a RARE act of extreme forward planning"...very true
wow, so much production value. big like.
1:41 "Was _harder_ than you might think"
*Starts stroking propellers up and down*
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Wait, no.
Cue Arctic Monkeys' "my propeller ".
🤨
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
"...it's only used by wankers"
Line of the video.
I'm creasing up 😂
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..."
Teterboro here in the States is pretty much the same thing, if not wankier.
I didn't see that coming
Jimmy Sanders That was where Cactus 1549 was instructed to go to by atc isn't it?
Haha the use of Sim City 2000 made me soooooo happy
Yeah I chuckled at that as well, that SC2000 Explosion. KABOOM!
YESSSSSSSSSS.
Unexpected SC2K slayed me. 10/10
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.
Hell yes! I came down here to say the same. Oh man love the game...
7:04 "into a proper popular passenger port for people." That had me so dead🤣🤣🤣
I was way too impressed when the medal dropped down over his head perfectly. That was incredible.
60 miles away for a airport doesn't seem that far
Living in the US has distorted my sense of distance by quite a bit
Yes the US is quite large.
AN airport
@@SuitedConnectors An pedant...
@@mercifulzeus01 Without grammar nazis, we'd be descending into indecipherable nonsense.
@Rob Yeah the criteria is pretty odd here. Like if Luton Airport is considered as one for London, NYC should have way more airports than six.
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)
They demolished it due to the crime?
#9thstreet#GP all dayyyyy😂😂😂
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?
BIG UP GRAHAM PARK @@Jaaammmbbbooo
SOMEONE give this guy a job at the BBC. He's already better than a lot of TV personalities.
He'll be the same as the rest of them. BBC is a propaganda machine.
Brad Strong Anything except BBC...
Even if not - he's good at presenting documentaries/TV
What he's doing here on RUclips is _much much_ better than TV.
BBC sucks. Rip off outdated TV licence needed. RUclips is free. Anyway he is doing well enough on RUclips.
why does he remind me of that guy off horrible histories
I was thinking the same thing, I see you are a person of culture
lol like 100
lol “Over to Bob Hale”. “ Thank you, Sam!”
@@theresabradley4716 Bob proceeds to have a spasm consisting of history.
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!
I didn’t even have to empty my water bottle, which is crazy to me lol
I was very surprised this video is 9 years old
You know who flies from City airport?
@@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).
@@vice.nor.virtue wow, you can be proud of yourself
8:07 The Top Gear Test Track
I saw that!
Just noticed that now.
RAF Dunsfold, to give it its proper name.
At 3:32 as well
As an American, I don't know why I'm so invested in this series
as a brazillian me neither
As a Pole i don't get why they srill use miles
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 :^)
As a cat person, I watch it for the commercials
@@screamsinrussian5773 That reminds me.Tom Scott has a video on why the Russians used to have better maps of Britain than the British did.
One airline tried to sell Americans tickets to London Prestwick.... thats in Scotland if you didnt know
It's in Wales, you wanker. lol
@@johannesbols57 Hmm...
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.
@@johannesbols57 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Prestwick_Airport
pretty easy to get 'glasgow prestwick' and 'london gatwick' confused
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 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.
Goodness. If they hadn't it would have been even less future proof.
Not that I'm celebrating bending the rules.
"to this day its only used by wankers" - CLASSIC!!!
Can already tell it’s city airport without watching the video😂
I love that you filmed in front of a green screen only to insert a blue background. Meta FX humour!
5:43 Oh my god the ad break here
This guy rewrote an essay just for us to get an ad
i love these unfinished london videos. you're really good at these sorts of funny informative videos. i wish someone from TV would hire you
No, TV sucks. It's where creativity goes to die a slow corporate death.
For those that don't know
Biggin Hill closed in 1994 to commercial flights
It still however survives today as a private airport
hol up private airports exist?
@@kets4443 Yep
@@Offical_RemyKWNichollsdamn, that’s quite impressive
f you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus Is Lord' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. -Romans 10:9
@@avangardismmi like religion but this is not related in any way
3:32 LOL “The Top Gear Test Track” 😂
isnt dunsfold being turned intoa housing estate?
@@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.
Surrey or Sussex?
I never noticed that! 😆😆😆😂😂😂
Thought I was having a stroke at 5:35
5:08
he: here it comes
me: HEATHROW JUST SAY IT GODDAMNIT.
He want his video to have an ad
@@rayzan501 congratulations you win the grammar award
5:05 - 5:42 When RUclipsrs in 2017 try to stretch the video out to 10 minutes 😂 Somehow he predicted it in 2014
ikr
Omggg exactly what i commented
I'm pretty sure that's a reference to Monty Python's Anne Elk and her theory on brontosauri.
@@karlpoppins I have a theory. And this is theory is mine, which is to say my theory
@@samueljones7280 that's a good theory
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.
That was my thought exactly!
It would fit in with one of Palin's news sketches nicely.
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
5:18 When you dont hit ten minutes for that extra add revenue
Alex Kokkonen i
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! :) )
Jay Foreman please bring this series back :(
I'm happy when good youtubers make money
I'm pretty sure it's a monty python reference
"Women with unconvincing fixed smiles used to catch beach balls while old men adjusted their glasses."
I'm dead.
You most likely aren't
@beanz are you sure...he may actually be deceased!
@beanz Oh I'm aware, I'm just a cynical little bitch who hates fun.
@@Antondencoole
Why
I flipping lost it when you used Sim City 2000 to illustrate why Croydon Airport had to close. You really need to tag these as NSFW!
Also, ffs, you have the same crappy monitor as you had in 2009? I hope you've replaced it since then!
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
2:59 Rare footage of the first Iphone in the history
Lol
You’re actually the most inspiring content creator I’ve come across in the last year. Flawless delivery
I guess the 1,800 dislikes were by all the W4nker$ who use City LOL
Or perhaps folk annoyed by the bizarre claim that the still very much open and in regular use Biggin Hill Airport closed in 1994.
@@desperatemohammedantheworl5833 no. No one cares about that.
@@CousinBowling- No one cares about factual accuracy? What a sad reflection on mankind.
No, they're by people irritated by a video "full of bland, tasteless, juvenile, cringy comedy and nonsense."
@@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
I don't remember enjoying any 'educational' vid that much. This is so...British and fun. Bravo.
3:18
The amount of unsatisfaction in this single second caused me extreme pain.
5:17 leading up to saying "Heathrow" was hilarious!
LMAO I was screaming Heathrow the entire time he was "introducing" the airport.
I've just watched again and noticed he doesn't blink through that segment!
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...
I feel it was more reminiscent of a Monty Python sketch.
Just imagine Michael Palin or Graham Chapman delivering it.
LAnonHubbard tryna make the video 10 mins for ad rev
5:15 wait.. He used a green screen to key in a blue background?! 😁
Ooor… he used blue screen to put the green screen backround on, so he could put the blue backround on that
@@bonyfax2345 Or he used a green screen for a blue screen which has a green screen, so he could make a blue background.
I like how Jay explains things in detail, but funnily rather than boring boringness
Didn't have a clue what he was doing, and would not be deterred. This guy was tailor made for politics during the 2010's.
My nearest airport is London-Auckland in New Zealand
I don't exactly understand the joke
@@elliot7753 pup
I use London Melbourne Avalon
It’s a 20 minute drive from London Melbourne airport
I use London San Antonio International. It's, like, 5,000 miles away from London.
Sam from Wendover HATES London Newark.
did I hear right at 09:47 "... It is only used by wankers"?
bus wankers!!
Fucking bankers. I mean wankers.
he definitely said wankers. and hes right
i started laughing
Is there a story there? I didn't realize that City Airport was so new.
Just realised that at 3:07 the image used for the 3 aerodromes is exactly the same, just that 1 is inverted.
Biggin Hill is not closed, it's still an airport, just a national, private airport that is often disused when there are no airshows
That part confused me greatly. I know he said that it re-opened as an RAF base but is also used for GA, training and even accepts business jets
5:05 every youtuber when the video isn't 10 minutes
Loving "The Top Gear Test Track 1942"
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
9:05 me, an American: oh 60 miles isn’t that bad
I mean, yeah, yeah no that’s ridiculous!
9:16 porsmouth 8s censored the mouth as a red kissed mouth lol
"to this day it's only used by wankers" ... brilliant 😄
nah its just a stupid joke designed to appeal to juveniles
9:15 haaaaa worse offender
London Ashford, 'it is more closer to France than london'
this video is too funny, great video with humour
This should seriously be a TV show.
Joe - if it were, I might consider turning my TV on for the first time in over half a decade. It’s so dusty, everything I’d watch would look like it’s set in winter.
Yes, I did just respond to a 3-year-old comment.
5:18 when you are out of ideas but the essay has a minimum word limit.
You should be a presenter on TV. Preferably documentaries. It would be awesome!
ikr. get this man a bbc job
he wouldnt get away with a weird targeting of a certain airports users as wankers
Jay, I'm on my second video, and officially subscribed. You teach me more about London than I'll ever care to know, and more importantly, you give me a serious case of the giggles. Thanks.
The fact nobody needed to know in all this is that Thurleigh is in fact pronounced Thur-lie, to rhyme with eye.
5:23 how to increase the number of words in an essay
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So . . . if his mustache was called Claude Grahame-White, what was _he_ called?
Wow you're sharp xD
This is like a documentary that plays in the middle of the night while you have a mental breakdown because you realize you're an disappointment.
But uh, better
Go away stan
"An disappointment"?
@@haroldinho9930 huh?
@@dionysus06 I’m quite sure in real life you aren’t an anime character.
@@haroldinho9930 obviously I’m not? Wth are you talking about
5:17 Top 10 Anime Reveals
I always love how the videos are made on this channel, they give me a sort of nostalgic 2000s British TV feeling.
I keep coming back here to listen to the Heathrow introduction. Anticipation epitome.
i keep coming back to see your ugly.
That introduction would make the Krusty Krab Training Video jealous.
Near to Leighton Buzzard, there's a bridge that crosses the West Coast Mainline with old graffiti stating 'NO AIRPORT HERE' as a protest stop the construction of Roskill's Cublington Airport which would be located very close to Leighton Buzzard. You can see this graffiti as you drive along the A4146 bypass which runs alongside the railway.
As if Oxford and Cambridge couldn't survive airports on their own name alone.
2024 commenter here 👋
the recent Westminster protests which involved a sh*tload of tractors weren’t a million miles away from how the village of Stewkley (next door to Cublington) protested London’s third airport in the late 60s/early 70s. There’s plenty of archive footage here on RUclips if anyone fancies having a look at some oddly-accented farmers telling an American broadcaster that Roskill can essentially bog off their laaaaaand.
Interesting how much of an effect protesting with tractors still has all these years later.
9:48 I’m dying 😂
2:08 Just imagine: Harry Potter could have flown to Hogwarts.
Adamin
The flying broomstick is much better.
He already did in Year 2
@@WarKeineAbsicht and nearly died
💀 do they have an airport
4:36 caught me off guard lmao - poor plane
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!
Coronavirus GOT ME WATCHING THIS GUY 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 but I am actually impressed, all the videos are proper good