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I love how official but friendly that behind the scenes tour is

A 45 minute 2 years in the making documentary? Seems like Wendover's really soaring to new heights here... And with such nebulous causes too...

If you start this video at 11:38:21 pm, the clock will strike midnight exactly when the first commercial plane lands on St Helena

16:11 I never thought I'd ever hear a British-Australian-Chinese-Indian-Texan accent

As someone from St Helena, it's nice to see someone setting the record straight. Wonderful documentry.

This was REALLY good. I didn’t realize how invested I was until they showed the tabloid headlines calling it the most useless airport and I got really sad and defensive.

Wendover, thank you for labelling the airport as the most useful airport in the world, contrary to what big medias & tabloids said.

This is heartwarming.

When I saw the thumbnail I was like "I swear to god if this is about anchorage again"

Every single person on this island appears to have a different accent lol

Holy shit. I can't believe it. Can we all take a moment to appreciate the generosity of this channel for offering such insanely good educational quality content for free

"the British tabloids got hold of it". Oh god. The words you never want to hear.

That right hand man to the CEO has such David Brent energy

"The next couple years for St Helena are crucial."

Pandemic: Allow us to introduce ourselves

I have a feeling that this documentary will help the tourism situation.

“The most useless airport in the world”

Berlin: am I not a joke to you

I love how proud they are of their little airport!! It's not the aesthetic marvel that most Airports are, but these people are so proud of what they have accomplished, and for good reason. I personally have dreamed of going to St. Helena for no other reason than it is an interesting an inconspicuous place. Now I can. I love seeing how happy these people are with their accomplishment. Thank you Wendover for making this awesome Documentary.

This airport seems like a good setting for an office sitcom.

This airport still made more progress than the Berlin one.

I was born on Saint Helena and have sadly never been back. After 27 years though my mum was able to visit her parents and prior to that my granddads life was saved thanks to a medivac. Thank you for a fair documentary 💚