Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border
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Sam: "Accidentally admitting Canada into the union as the 51st state"
Also Sam: *forgets that Hawaii and Alaska weren't states until 1959 so technically Canada would be the 49th state*
Looks like somebody's going to be on Quarter as Interesting...!
@@ryankohnenkamp8946 yepp
A grave and unforgivable error
I commented something about that and saw this, so left a like :)
RIP
I totally forgot we were talking about airplanes and airports and was deeply invested in WW2 i could have listened for 2 hours straight
Same lol, I was like "no, don't interrupt my HAI WW2 history lesson!"
I'm interested in our sword wielding war eagles.
The history is so intense. Also, as an Englishman, I’m very thankful to the Canadian and US government for the loophole that allowed us to keep Nazis out of our country.
@@BoornIdentity You forgot about the British union of Fascists and National Socialists
Have a look for the tv series The World At War
I laughed about the whole Canada being a 51st state thing because of how big Canada was, and then I remembered that Canada wouldn't even be the most Populous state if the joined which is pretty wild considering their size
Well Canada is pretty much a tundra sooo it's understandable
Alaska would loose it's place as largest yet sparsely populated permafrost state
AND Texas would be 3rd in the size contest
@@OddZodd and we all live in igloos....
@@OddZodd I'm going to be annoying, and say that Canada isn't all tundra. It's actually mostly boreal forest, with some temperate deciduous forest, grassland, mountainous forest, and of course tundra.
@@crystalyu356 And much of it is pretty nice. Shout-out to Mother Nature.
As a Nebula user, I DO PAY YOU to talk about weird little airports.
Hey quit denigrating the 0.000001 dollars I just paid him by watching a 30 second ad on UA-cam! ;)
You are a dinosaur hand puppet?
I concur 😂
🤣
@@jasondashney you aren't?
Imagine being a farmer and having the Canadian government just slide you a note asking you to use your horses to drag military grade planes across the border
Back then people didn't complain about doing something to contribute to the greater good like many Canadians do today.
@@davidreichert9392 people dont really have any greater good to contribute to without a war on. Everything is political now.
Knowing farmers, that would have been a bank note and they wouldn't ask too many questions so long as no one was abusing them (and their team of horses)
@@skoshman1 These are Canadian farmers we're talking about, you don't bribe them with cash. Bring beer.
@@davidreichert9392 Yup. Germans also didn't. Complain. Greater good.
"Turns out Hitler was secretly a nazi" may be my favorite joke on the channel
Things we discover by chance on an airplane video and change our lives 😂
I mean he literally invented the whole idea of being a Nazi
Well ACTUALLY, there is an airport in ukraine quite literally on the border to Slovakia. So with a lliiiittle prep you COULD just drag a plane onto that airfield: "Uzhhorod International Airport"
@No One Sorry, i ment Slovakia obviously :D
@@DerVerlorene Ah, that Slovenia-Ukraine airport must be where the fast and furious filming takes place
bruh, did you just solve the airplane issues Poland has where they want to give Ukraine fighter jets but don't want to be caught giving them fighter jets
Wouldn't Russia declare war on Slovakia then?
@@IloveRumania Ukraine would have to drag them themself. I don't want to go too much into politics but it's up to Putins ill mind who he sees as part of the war...
I have seen articles about them thinking of doing this with Ukraine. Since Russia is threatening countries that deliver arms to Ukraine, some are demanding Ukraine transport the equipment themselves, specifically the highly controversial fighter planes they were talking about giving Ukraine. They were talking about setting up an airport on the border to land the planes at and then Ukraine can transport them over the border similar to Canada in WW2.
I'm like 90% certain Poland has already left its Migs on the Polish-Ukrainian border with the keys in them and their backs turned, and just haven't mentioned it publicly yet.
The end of a Uzhhorod International Airport is literally 75 meters from border with Slovakia. Now, I'm not saying we should do it, I'm just not opposed to it.
The issue with the plane swap is that the Polish planes are equipped differently than the Ukrainian planes, and so while the model number may be the same, the Ukrainian pilots would need extensive training to use them.
The Polish planes have totally different electronics and weapons systems, and so while a Ukrainian pilot may be able to fly the plane just as well, if they have never used the advanced targeting systems and comms gear, they won't be very useful in battle.
what's more annoying is nobody seems to be trying to figure out how to set up a truce. do they actually think sending materiel to ukraine will help them beat russia or something? what they need is a mediator who can get putin to accept some rougher conditions, and allow zelensky to call off western sanctions in return. all this talk about sending planes and/or no-fly zones... will just harden putin's resolve to send more young men to their deaths.
@@alveolate the peace talks are held multiple times every week. Putin doesn't care, he wants donbas and Crimea and their oil and gas fields. No truce before that.
I want to see a full episode of "what's wrong with this airport" now.
There's Jay Foreman's video, "Why does Heathrow need to expand?" here:
ua-cam.com/video/KXmpdJO9UOc/v-deo.html
And I've slapped together a playlist of Tom Scott's (main channels') videos featuring (or on an) Airport,Aircraft,etc. here:
ua-cam.com/video/i8MFK0w0hlg/v-deo.html
@@LynxSnowCat appreciate the thought, but I’ve quite possibly seen all of those already :D
@@jdatlas4668 Figured that would be the case, but it seemed worthwhile in case there was somebody who hasn't (yet).
The B1M explains improvements made to LaGuardia, "New York's Most Hated Airport"
ua-cam.com/video/iUyu56TLcvI/v-deo.html
And Peter Dibble did a video about housing the Spruce Goose, and moving it as needed...
ua-cam.com/video/ZBPJhRCqXjA/v-deo.html
... I also recall an urb-ex site did an excellent history series on abandoned regional airports across the mid-western US; but not *which* urb-ex group did it. :/
It would just be 5 minutes of Newark Airport
Sam: "Committed the classic sin calling the whole United Kingdom *ENGLAND* "
thank you. I was going to say exactly the same thing
Not just that but the UK flag pops up and he's still saying England!
You're right, it's all just great Britain
@@DesertDog the UK and Great Britain are not the same thing 😉 Technically, it's the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. GB is the landmass that incudes England, Scotland, and Wales. The UK is GB + Northern Ireland.
But let's just call it all England 😉
@@AntneeUK you're right, let's call it USA's bitch 🙃
Quick correction.America did not declare war with Germany. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour th US declared war on Japan, and as an alliance existed between Germany and Japan, Germany was obliged to support Japan and thus declared war on the United States.
There was no such alliance between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany.
Rather, Adolf had an emotional moment -- and just did what came to him.
Japan proceeded to stiff Adolf at every turn -- almost -- as when he begged them to attack Siberia -- or send the IJN into the Indian Ocean.
Both actions would've had world shaking impacts.
@@davidhimmelsbach557 Take a look at the Tripartite Pact AKA The Berlin Pact. An agreement between Germany, Italy & Japan signed in Berlin Sept 27th 1940.
It was a Military Alliance which was joined later by, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia & the Independent state of Croatia as well as Slovakia in that order.
This alliance became known as the Axis Powers.
Germany declared war because Hitler saw what he foolishly thought an opportunity. The Tripartite Pact did not oblige any of its members to go to war unless another member were attacked by a party they were not already at war with, NOT if the member attacked someone else. Germany would have been obliged to assist with all political, economic and military means if the US had attacked Japan. Technically, Japan would have been obliged to assist Germany if the USSR had attacked it. I'm not so sure Japan would have lived up to that commitment the way Germany did. That's a compliment to Japan, whose strategy was otherwise pretty dumb.
Since Germany was the aggressor against Russia, and Japan the aggressor against the US, the Tripartite Pact only applied as far as its general clauses about who had which spheres of influence. That the Germans and Japanese made an extremely half-baked attempt to fight a common war was gravy, not the main course.
Phrasing treaties like that, creating opt outs if a party were the aggressor, was a common way to keep one's commitments to one's allies under control and retain some discretion. Pre WW1, too. Technically Germany had to come to Austria's aid because the Russians had mobilized against Austria, they did NOT have to assist Austria's invasion of Serbia.
Evasive phrases like "political, economic and military means" are common too. Surprising how often "all military means" can be interpreted as military assistance short of war. Though the Tripartite Pact's phrasing is stronger than some.
On December 11, 1941, the United States Congress declared war on Germany, hours after Germany declared war on the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan. The vote was 88-0 in the Senate and 393-0 in the House.
And then the US responded to those declarations by declaring war on Germany and Italy.
It's remarkable how many completely random yet intriguing topics this channel can think of
and timely and topical!
Guess it’s called Half as interesting for a reason
They don't think about anything.
They just look through Wikipedia till they find something half as interesting.
@@Jehty_ No, they think about _everything._ Their minds are powerhouse supercomputers that operate question-considering algorithms 24/7.
@bruh It was called "That Wikipedia List" on wendover productions, before this channel was a thing
Cool trivia even I didn't know, and I grew up near the Canadian border and have studied WW II for many years. Love that the exposition was entertaining yet crystal clear.
Most Canadians grew up near the Canadian border!
@@minerscale If they were Canadian it would be the American border 🤔
Would have been cheaper just to fly the planes to Europe and then just say "no we didn't". And then if anyone questioned it pass a law saying that all actions are excluded so long as they are followed by "no we didn't".
This
. . . like we did with setting up bio-weapons facilities in Ukraine!
@@JoesWebPresence literally no. No one has ever dwnied existence of biolavs in Ukraine, anyone who cares knows about them. No bioweapons tho
@@JoesWebPresence 💀💀💀
For real, it's not like so called "rules" ever stopped us before from doing w/e the heck we want to.
"Basically you standard drug dealers policy"
That's oddly enough SPOT ON.
I had a very odd drug dealer apparently. Not only did he come to your house (or wherever you'd call him from), he also allowed you to pay not only in cash but also with his very own trading stamps, and loyal customers could pay on credit (with interest). He was a true entrepreneur.
@@capturedflame He wasn't a dangerous guy. I don't think he would hurt a fly, but he did make it dangerously easy to get drugs.
@@jbird4478all drug dealers come to your house lol wtf are you on about? The trading stamps is weird though, in the uk we just pay cash or bank transfer
1:33 Fun fact: Eventually, Britain and France was "buying" American bases on their land in exchange for warships. It meant the UK and France could buy warships, which do a good job of transporting themselves, without actually exchanging money for them.
... were SELLING bases to get warships... ? Just saying...
@@noahway13 to build a military base usually requires the foreign power to buy money to the home country. In this time, America was giving warships instead of money
Lend lease act allowed us to give all Allie’s arms in exchange for military bases/land were technically leasing it just for a very very long time
Someone needs to do a video on why showing a picture of the UK flag and referring it to "England", is very, very wrong.
CGP grey did this video: ua-cam.com/video/rNu8XDBSn10/v-deo.html
If only another extremely successful, if considerably less prolific, educational UA-camr had done just such a video very early in their online career.
@@ross71521 Indeed, but US UA-camrs will never learn...
I guess it is the same when English speakers refer to the Netherlands as "Holland" when Holland is a region (consisting of two provinces) within the Netherlands.
A slightly similar workaround used by Alaska state troopers and Canadian Mounties to circumvent national or international rules about law enforcement and firearms across international borders on occasions where one or the other is pursuing a criminal into the other country is to have the officers meet at the border and trade their weapons, or they would hand another domestically registered weapon to that officer.
😂 that’s hilarious and ridiculous at the same time.
I prefer the Dukes of Hazzard method, where the sheriff just turns around and goes home when Bo and Luke cross into the next county.
Interesting. Since this involves "domestically registered weapons," this is likely something the Canadians pushed for, since firearms, particularly handguns, are typically not registered in the U.S., unless you live in a deep blue state like NY, NJ or CA.
A dubious claim. A criminal attempting to flee across the border would be stopped by the US Customs and Border Patrol, or the Canada Border Services Agency. Both of which have employees that are well armed.
@@e-curb - It may be today, but the borders are stricter now across North America than they've ever been in our entire history.
You'd think a know-it-all educational channel would know the difference between England and the United Kingdom.
More people have acknowledged the existence of Coutts, Alberta this year than in any other year in history
Ugh. Don’t remind me. I don’t want to think about Alberta existing much less Coutts.
@@ericgeorgetruckgrilling go fight for your right to a shower or something lol
@@ChaoticAphrodite Vancouverite/Torontonian detected!
You mispronounced Britain as England, flag was correct however.
Same thing
@@RealGalaxyGamers UK = England + Scotland + Wales + N. Ireland
England = England
@@RealGalaxyGamers not according to the 34,000 Scottish people who died in WWII while in the British Forces.
@@RealGalaxyGamers it’s categorically not the same thing and the implication that it is insula the Scots the Welsh and the Northern Irish.
@@RealGalaxyGamers It's not remotely the same thing, it's like saying Texas when you mean the entire US.
Great video as always, but I'd be lying if I said that hearing England every time the UK flag was shown didn't annoy me just a tiny bit lol
Came to comment exactly the same. 🤦🏻♂️
As a Scot, it annoyed me more than a tiny bit. Especially since Sam lived in Edinburgh for a couple years!
I don't understand how it's so hard
Hello, Dumb American here, I understand your frustration but to let you in on one of our secrets: Most of us have no idea what the difference between Britain, Great Britain, England, and the UK are.
It'd be nice if we were more intelligent about countries "across the pond", but just letting you know "on average" for someone in the US without interest in the UK or its history, mistakes like that are too be expected.
@@peterkwolek2265 Yeah, you guys would definitely not complain if we referred to the USA as Carolina or Massachusetts all the time.
"Hitler was secretly a nazi!"
My mind is so blown i need to watch atleast 2 hours of videos explaining the logistics of things!
The paved runway of the Uzhhorod International Airport ends only 85 meters from the state border to Slovakia. I bet Russians will not attack this airfield, because if they do and will create damage over the EU/Schengen/NATO border, they will see themselves at war with NATO.
There is a big disconnect between the people who are worried about treaties, and those shooting at whatever, just because they can. Like what they were doing in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The people doing it didn't realize that it would probably kill the troops they sent in. They just saw a defensible position where the Ukrainians wouldn't willingly go to.
I'd fully expect them to continue doing bad things. Eventually the rest of the world will force them to stop. They're just delaying, because of the whole World War 3 thing.
You sound like a reddit operator who forgets to take a burner phone and gets hundreds of people killed.
it may depend on how much they trust their high-precision ammunition (at least, it would make a lot of sense using modern high-precision ammunition in that case)
@@tobyk.4911 I know people say it's cutting the head off the snake, but I feel if you do it enough times the snake may change it's attitude. Also a few .50's are pretty cheap in comparison.
Canada didn't "accidentally became the 51st state. U.S.A. was accidentally admitted as Canada 11th province. 😉
10th province. We still hadn't let the Newfies in yet, that didn't come around until '49.
They could've been "Really Lower Canada" Alaska would've been "Really Upper Canada"
Count the number of times sam says "England" but shows the Union Jack:
2:18
2:24
2:45
Is he wrong tho?
Yes. The Union Jack represents the whole of the UK, not just England. It's like showing the US flag instead of the NY state flag when talking about NY.@@edu7979
@@edu7979imagine you would talk about france but show the european flag
nuh uh
Kinda hurts hearing “England” and showing a UK flag
3:52 - attaching a warfare to a tractor sounds kinda familiar, if you ask me
Sam is the master of stretching a weird fact into a full video
Moral of the story: make your horses do things that you legally can't
From the epic movie monologue by Lone Watie on "Josey Wales":
"I didn't surrender, neither. But they took my horse and made him surrender. They have him pulling a wagon up in Kansas, I'll bet."
I had heard of this piece of history, it's even mentioned in the recent film "Darkest Hour", but not how it was actually done. Is it also true that ramps were built along the U.S. border so airplanes could "accidentally" roll into British territory?
i too remember hearing that mentioned in the "Darkest Hour"(in the telephone call iirc) , but i never actually how they carried that out.
Here is the actual clip. The fictional FDR (David Straham) offers to allow U.S. built aircraft to be pulled across the border with teams of horses. Churchill (Gary Oldham) says "Horses!"
ua-cam.com/video/Wo4U1SqnRpA/v-deo.html
When he showed the picture from the American fascist rally while referring to us as "neutral" I had to pause the video because I was laughing so hard. Well played Sam.
There were probably as many Soviet inspired Communist rallies as fascist rallies, so that proved we were neutral.
@@rea1cyru5 no it’s 0:35
@@seco000 nope
the people who are anti-Ukraine today and the "no war, no NATO expension" protests today would've been the same people at the fascist rallies and "peace with hitler" protests in the 1930's
Well, that WAS the effective result if the US had really been neutral- which is why the Bund etc. wanted that. No need to aim too high and try to join in on the German side. They assumed that would not be necessary.
A few years ago I was trying to buy our dream property in central Washington state. 40 acres, year around stream, pond and nicely timbered. I was unable to get insurance on it because it had been declared an emergency runway during WW2 and the air force would not release the designation even though not a single documented landing had ever occurred there.
sounds like it'd be pretty cheap then ;-)
I remember reading about this many years ago in HMG Archives. there were also other war materials driven to the border parked and canadians simply walked over and drove or pushed across the border. US Customs did not notice because a meeting was called and all were required to attend, which was of course cancelled as soon as all border agents were there but a meal was provided for attendee's just to keep them from the possibility of returning too soon before the job was done.
Just FYI, that’s the British flag, not the English one. The United Kingdom is not just England, and the UK was fighting the war not just England.
Thats true, but how often do you hear someone from Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland, referring to themselves as “British?” They just say the country they are from
@@HGRAP1 What an irrelevant point! This is about who was fighting a war
Informative and entertaining video as always, but please don't refer to the United Kingdom as 'England', especially when displaying the Union Jack. It's like referring to the Netherlands as 'Holland'.
yeah seriously this is so confusing I just generically use the term "Brits" so I don't have to figure out which term I should be using when discussing something historical.
As someone from England I use them interchangeably as well for some reason
@@circuit10 as someone from Scotland it just reinforces my belief that English people are ignorant.
@@circuit10 You're not alone. And even Dutch people, especially those in Holland, do the same. Synecdoche is really common when referring to places, especially when the part of it whose name you're using is the principle, or at least just a very important, part of it.
Dear Matrix Badger. It's WAY worse. Yours sincerely, Scotland.
"England" Shows union flag.
Did he mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? Nah - "England"
0:27 the us actually didnt declare war on germany, germany declared war on the us after they declared war on japan
Hiro: Hey Adolf, look what we did
Adolf: Nice invasion of China you have ther....
wait.... you've bombed WHAT
*big sighhhhhh*
I guess we have to declare too......
And then the US declared war on Germany. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_declaration_of_war_on_Germany_(1941)
Congress actually declared war in six seperate resolutions for WW2 (which is quite impressive given that Congres has only declared war 11 times in its entire history).
On December 8th, 1941 - S.J. Res. 116 (against Japan).
On December 11th, 1941 - S.J. Res 119 (against Germany) and S.J. Res. 120 (against Italy).
On June 4th, 1942 - H.J. Res. 319 (against Bulgaria), H.J. Res. 320 (against Hungary), and H.J. Res. 321 (against Romania).
2:25 that’s not the English flag. That’s the Union flag, which is the flag of the United Kingdom. This is the England flag 🏴
For a lot of people, especially people who have never been there, the flags are interchangeable. Honestly, I see the UK flag used a lot to mean England. Usually, the correct Scottish and Irish flags are used for those, as people know that they're separate countries. And to international people, the flag of Wales may as well not even exist. They don't realize they're all part of the UK. They also see all of the British Isles as being "England".
Don't worry, it isn't even just that part of the world. They'd not even know the Caribbean islands as anything other than a cruise ship and vacation destination.
I'm assuming that you even noticed and pointed it out, you're in England, or somewhere near by. My perspective is being from the US, but listening to people all over the world. When trying to say where I am, I try to give a large vague description (Southeast corner of the US), before saying the metro area.
@@JWSmythe sure, but it was the UK that was at war, so the flag is correct but the country name is wrong. It is like saying California invaded Iraq. It's kinda true if you squint but also, it isn't really true.
I totally understand your point though about it being a lack of familiarity with the area. But for a fact channel it's a wee bit wrong.
It's the same thing when people call the Netherlands Holland.
Same difference once Whales manages to leave over brexit irritation and England does something dumb and loses Northern Ireland.
Letting rich people talk them into leaving the EU to avoid an upcoming tax audit law was really dumb. It was dumb for those rich people to do it too. The numbers matter less than their quality of life and the success of their businesses, and brexit hurt both in the long term. Just like them slowly sneaking fees into healthcare and college.
@@geolawie "...invaded Iran" - do you mean Iraq?
So basically how Cory moved peoples' lawn furniture to the curb, and then Ricky picked it up in his trailer? Nothing illegal about that 😃
Not "England", the UK or Britain if you prefer. England is a *part* of the UK. Saying England when you're referring to the UK is a bit like saying Texas when you're referring to the US.
More like saying "America" when referring to the US. Yeah it's the other way round but equally misleading.
It is nothing like saying "America". America describes more than the USA. England describes only part of the UK.
Canada would have been the 49th state, as Alaska and Hawaii wasn’t officially states until 1959. Great job with this. While watching it remembered a 9th grade teacher who mentioned this and thought it was interesting, glad you went into more detail. Thank you
@@lyncarlson2448 agreed - and how sad that is
I like how he still managed to insult Newark airport in this video continuing his grudge
Once again, tractors dragging military hardware.
Piney Pinecreek sounds like somebody decided to let the Internet choose a new town's name.
Gibraltar International Airport is an interesting situation located on a border. It was built in WW2 as a military airfield on disputed territory on the isthmus border of Spain and Gibraltar, which had once been a quarantine camp on 'neutral territory' and then a racecourse. An agreement to share the civil airport was made in 1987, but never ratified by the Gibraltarians. Despite that, some internal Spanish airline services did operate until 2010 from the airport, ending due to lack of demand.
It's the UK not England. Why is this so hard to understand. There are 4 nations within the UK one of which is England, the other 3 apparently don't exist and didn't have anything to do with the war despite fighting under what you seem to think is the English flag but in actuality is the union flag.
Particularly odd as Sam used to live in Edinburgh.
2:41 that little voice crack is golden and cherished
the nazi rally in madison square garden next to US "neutrality" before entering WWII perfectly distills the subtle passive aggressive slights at the US that i have most grown to love, beautiful
I hate how he keeps calling the UK 'england'
mate,
england is not the UK
it's great watching these a second time after a year. i forget a bit the details & then enjoy it all over again.
You just explained why Canada is North Montana in Meet the Robinsons, and my mind is blown. Also, how come I didn't notice this alleged runway last time I crossed at Sweet Grass? Also also, how come no one in Sweet Grass is allowed to use Verizon or Straight Talk?
This also happened in Houlton, Maine, with fighter aircraft being taken to France. Military planes landed at the airfield adjacent to the border, then were towed across with tractors, and took off from a road on the Canadian side of the border. The U.S. entered the war before another airfield could be built on the Canadian side.
I'm pretty sure you meant to say that the US had been admitted as the 10th province, or 3rd territory, of Canada.
You get full marks for remembering that there were only 9 provinces and 2 territories back then. Well played.
Mate, that was very clever, very subtly humorous and interestingly informative while being thoroughly entertaining. You actually and truly brought a little bit of sunshine with you into a day with enough shadows as we all know now and I thank you for the kindness. Have a great day every day, well done mate, thank you
Call the UK "England" again, I double dog dare you.
The animation of the French flag turning white at 2:25 gave flashbacks of the end of this year's r/place
I don't wanna judge you guys, but at 3:25 you show german soldiers in WW1 and not WW2...because of the helmets they are wearing
I recall my dad once telling me about this, he said they couldn't actually bring "aircraft" across the border, but could bring "aircraft parts." So they'd take the propeller off, carry it across the border separately from the airplane that was dragged by a tractor or horses, then reinstall the propeller. Seems like a lot of work though, I'd think by the same logic you could carry the keys (if WWII military aircraft used such) separately from the aircraft - it won't fly without them (unless you hotwire it but we'll ignore that) so it wouldn't be a "complete aircraft."
Most military airplanes don't have keys. And even though a keyed vehicle won't run without the key, it's still not legally classified as "part of the vehicle".
@@HiddenWindshield ... you might be interested to know the Japanese car companies brought pick up trucks to the USA separate from the bed (and spare tire) and also a box of parts to avoid import taxes. They were listed as "final assembly in USA" and it worked for years. They were assembled in Ca and NJ before shipping to dealers. The box of parts had mirrors, wheel covers, jack, lug wrench, and such. AC units and radios were a dealer installed item, also shipped separately. There's lots of ways around the rules.
"It was becoming increasingly clear that Hitler was secretly a Nazi"
Now this is the content I'm here for - whoever would have thought it?!
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
You’re aware that, at 3:43, the plane in the illustration is flying in from Canada and not the US, right?
Holy shit, Sam pronounced Calgary correctly! I am unreasonably proud of Sam for that.
You just spent the entire video calling the UK England... :/
Your voice overs just keep getting better, haha. Great work!
0:03 that airport is from Israel...again. Are there like two stock videos of airports in Storyblocks?
I pay UA-cam for Permium --> UA-cam pays you --> *I pay you to talk about weird little airports*
3:59 Can't wait until the end of the year's corrections round up to hear the snide joke about accidentally saying "Galgary" instead of "Calgary".
As a point of historical accuracy, the maple leaf flag shown in the video was not Canada's flag during the war years. It was changed in the 1960's from the one with Union Jack in the corner and a crest with bunch of other stuff like smaller maple leaves and a fleur de lis.
0:41 Well that's a bit hypocritical because cases could just as easily be made that it actually started in '37 when Japan attacked China, OR that it started on June 28th 1914, since WWII was just a continuation of WW1 with the Treaty of Versailles doing nothing but creating an artificial cease-fire that ultimately lead to hostilities restarting due to way too much punishment and reparations being shoveled onto Germany for WW1. The fact of the matter is, it started at different times for different countries, so it's no more stupid to say it started, from an American perspective, on Dec 7th 1941, as it would be to say that, from a Chinese perspective, it started in 1937, or 1914 from a German perspective.
From what I remember in history class world war ii was defined as beginning with hitler's invasion of poland in 1939, and ending with hitler's defeat in 1945. while I agree it "started" at different times for different people, the commonly accepted start date is 1939 with the invasion of poland (which it seems like you already know).
Occasionally it's reckoned as having started in 1935 with Italy attacking Ethiopia.
@@Lazydino59 Yes but that's the most milktoast, conservative and traditional way it's taught, completely without nuance. I went to more than one University where they taught basically what I said - that there's more than one perspective on when it started. One professor began day 1 of class 1 by going around the room and asking ppl when they thought it started, and he made a point to agree with several of the dates I mentioned. It's an approach that blends a bit of anthropology in with the history. The part I disagree with completely though is your end date, because Japan wasn't defeated until 4 months after Germany. The war ended with VJ day (not VE day) when Japan surrendered, not when Germany surrendered- and no professor would disagree with THAT perspective.
@@RationallySkeptical You are correct about the end date. I have not studied this in about 7 years so I apologize for that part being incorrect. And while I do agree to an extent that there can be multiple conflicts that can mark the "beginning" of WWII, it is essential to canonize the beginning and end to it uniformly, or as you put it "milktoast, conservative, and traditional." That way everyone has a universal agreement on what we define as WWII in the timeline of human civilization. You cannot properly analyze the event of WWII (or any other period) unless you agree on what events occurred within that timeframe.
Cool video idea for a similar topic: Airports in two time zones. Eg, Gold Coast Airport in Australia
Sam, why did you constantly call the UK England? That is the same as calling the USA New York. Your videos are usually extremely well written and researched but this is a sloppy mistake
It's probably more like calling the USA California, as it would probably be better off on its own without the rest of the nation bludging off its economy. 😆
3:00 its called Bananada!
Ah yes, the only true international airports
If I recall, the airport serving Geneva, Switzerland, has terminal exits to both France and Switzerland
@@robertewalt7789 They have a customs avenue ("route douanière").
Do you think you could possibly get the "England vs UK" thing correct?
England is not the UK.
Love your energy and humor
How many times will you refer to the UK (and flag) as England in your videos 😭 perhaps a video on the 4 nations next 😉
Houlton, ME, had a similar arrangement. Planes would be flown into Houlton and towed across the border into Canada via tractor.
Houlton also had a POW camp in WWII as well.
A couple of mistakes for the inevitable corrections video:
Repeated mentions of England while using the flag of the entire UK, making it unclear if you are referring to the sovereign nation or the constituent country.
Joking about Canada becoming the 51st state in the US at a time when there were only 48 states.
It's not a mistake, until late in the 20th century it was normal to just say England, everyone knew what was meant, and so the narration uses the historically accurate term.
@@igrim4777 Everybody using the wrong term doesn't make that term correct.
@@davidguthary8147 but that's just it, it wasn't the wrong term.
@@igrim4777 I'm sure the people of Scotland and Wales would strongly disagree.
@@davidguthary8147 Disagree all they want, it's how the world was.
Btw, leaving the Irish of Northern Ireland off your list...
Very informative but beautiful hilarious narrative… absolutely enjoyed it.. keep going mate 👍🏻
Where are all the angry Scottish Welsh and Irish viewers at
0:11 I flew out from Newark after being exhausted from a school trip on dc and New York. The flight got delayed by 3 hours and we flew out at 3 in the morning, I arrived at home in the morning and got no sleep. On top of that, school started tomorrow. So yeah, I never went to Newark ever again and I 100% agree Newark sucks.
It's not England, it's the UK
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England? When you even show the flag of the UK?
I've been to the International Peace Garden and when looking at the map, I wondered why the airport was doing that. Thanks for the answer! Also, rather ironic they did this at a place called the "International Peace Garden" (although the international peace being referenced is that between the US and Canada, the point still stands).
In Australia,although you can cross any states border without any ID (except stuff like drivers license if u driving) because borders are not manned because there is now point,there is an airport that crosses the NSW-QLD border, OOL
"England". Sigh.
0:07 I think the farm is actually a very good idea. Airports have so much land that is usually unused.
Another slightly less well-known reason the US didn't get involved was the supporters and members of the party from Germany in the 30s. Like the Madison Square Garden rally.
Another reason was the atrocities committed by the nazi party were not really discovered until the late 30s or early 40s. Concentration camps were not internationally known and mostly kept in-house on a need to know basis. Thus the nazis were seen more as power-hungry guys than the monsters they were made out to be since then. This was also a critical turning point leading to America wanting to go to war with germany if i remember correctly
"Bureaucratic efficiency" is an oxymoron.
Stop saying England when you are talking about the UK!
Sam, United Kingdom not England. England is one of the Countries that make up the UK. Saying England when you mean the UK is a bit like saying Nebraska when you mean the USA.
BRO I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS FOR THE LAST FEW WEEKS BUT HAVEN’T REMEMBERED TO GOOGLE IT THANK YOU SO MUCH
Very interesting. Thank you.
I love how this channel managed to take the popular "watchmojo-like" format and make it actually good, interesting, funny and educational
3:39 kinda ruining the joke but it would’ve been the 49th state, as hawaii and alaska weren’t states yet
As a Canadian, thanks for being dummies and thinking an oil embargo would ease tensions in any way shape or form.
That's what we're here for 👍
Avey Field (WA/BC) and Piney Pinecreek (MN/MAN) are the only airports that still cross the border, and only Piney Pinecreek seems to be some place where you could really land and then choose which country to enter. At Avey Field, the likely spot where the planes were moved into Canada has been blocked off The Canadian side of Coutts/Ross airport seems to survive as lines of trees where the taxiways and apron used to be, but the American side has been plowed flat. A more accurate title for this video is "Why so many Airport Runways used to cross the US-Canada Border."