Caribbean Rare Birds - World’s Last Fokker + Smallest 3 Engine Plane

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I flew on 2 very rare aircraft in the Caribbean. Join me flying the World’s last-built Fokker 70 and the World’s smallest 3-engine airplane; Britten-Norman Trislander.
The Fokker 70 flight is operated by Jet Air Caribbean from St Maarten to Curacao. Join me in visiting the flight deck of the Fokker 70 and the pilot spoke about the plane's performance. The 27-year-old classic plane has some unique engine sound. We departed Princess Juliana St Maarten Int’l with a quick takeoff and climb. During the flight, I explored the roomy cabin and spoke with the friendly crew. Join the cockpit for landing in Curacao.
My next flight is onboard Anguilla Air Services Britten-Norman Trislander. This is the world’s smallest three-engine plane with less than a dozen currently airworthy. My flight was operated by a single pilot; Kyle. The flying time from St Maarten to Anguilla was just 10 minutes with scenic views of both Islands. We did a touch-n-go and flew back to St Maarten with a nice approach over Maho Beach.

[@samanthabrooks7054]

Hi Sam… Captain Kyle of Anguilla Air Services is my younger brother. It has always been his dream to be in the skies so you can say he’s actually living his dream. Kyle can say he has had the privilege to have both perspectives of aviation- that is- being a pilot and also being in air traffic control. Kyle since he was a child has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Upon obtaining a job in air traffic, his admiration for aviation grew and he would go flying in his free time with his now-boss. He later made the decision to further his training and went to flying school. Kyle is a very skilled pilot and everyone that flies with him can attest to his professionalism and the smooth rides. My cousin Josiah who also left a comment on this video is also very interested in flying and watches a lot of these videos and can recite a lot of information about planes. I’m very proud of my brother and I’m happy that he’s living his dream. He is very knowledgeable and it can be evidenced by this very video. Thank you for showcasing my brother and his love for the skies.

[@sirprawiebezgowynic5545]

Your brother is a good airman :)

[@citibear57]

Wow, the Trislander is so narrow inside! Sam and the pilot were literally shoulder-to-shoulder!

[@Siah_frm_john]

yes very lol

[@mike-ulove2travel]

Hey Sam, Mike here. Nice to see you made it to St Maarten in the Caribbean. My uncle helped design that airport. I hope you had a good time there. I always have a great time when I’m in St Maarten. 🏝️

[@AviationManEdits]

Wow, that's amazing!

[@FastGuy1]

Wow, so cool!

[@DudleyDawson9]

What a terrible design. I guess that’s why he was working on a Caribbean island

[@mike-ulove2travel]

@@DudleyDawson9 If you look at it of a satellite view you will see that it looks like an airplane wing.

[@mike-ulove2travel]

@Emiratesnon_official To each his own. Everyone can’t all like the same things in life. There will be differences of opinion.

[@Chris_In_Texas]

The only Fokker I ever flew on was the Fokker 27 of the US Army Golden Knights back in the 80's. Always fun to get strapped in and sit next to the open door, and watch the team jump out! 🤠👍

[@ChevyBM]

That was a smooth landing in the Fokker!

[@nicksimeone]

I was gonna say that too! Took a bit to get down but it was butterrrrr

[@ningboflyer3871]

Alliance airlines in Australia still operates a few Fokker 70/100, mostly used for FIFO flights. A small number of the planes operate on behalf of Virgin Australia. Qantas Link also has a few Fokker 100. I flew Alliance Fokker70 from Brisbane to Port Macquarie 4 years ago.

[@sparkymalarky4322]

I used to enjoy it when they would keep the brakes applied and apply full thrust, then get catapulted, good old Focker

[@restlesssoulme]

Yes I recently flew the alliance pink livery BCA recently in remote south Australia.

[@g00nther]

"Let's have some fun, let's go low" 😂 Such a troublemaker Sam Really enjoyed these St. Marteen/Caribbean vids. Amazing scenery. Hope you have more for us.

[@rileytat123]

I recently flew on PJ-JAB from suriname to curacao and back. It's my favorite plane!

[@Singapore309]

I went to Sxm last year and I saw the Fokker everyday Seeing that Menzies aircraft gave me nostalgic memories

[@gamuss1234]

Love the Fokker 70. Was on Malev and KLM Fokker 70 many times! 💪🏼👍🏼

[@SamChui]

Nice!!

[@gamuss1234]

@@SamChui you come to ILA in Berlin Germany this Year between 01. and 06.th of June?

[@mike-ulove2travel]

Awesome views of the island. Just spectacular!

[@sebinamuwanga]

Thanks for the video, Sam. The Captain selected "idle reverse" when he opened the buckets. He did not require the engines to spool up though that option was available to him if he wanted to have the aircraft slow down faster.

[@jamesshort5682]

Thanks for this Sam. I used to fly on the Fokker 28 on the old Canadian Airlines. It would go from Calgary to Saskatoon and on to Winnipeg. Cheers from Canada.

[@crabmaniac1]

Used to fly regularly on the Trislanders to the Chanel Islands. Great to see one still about! Those lycoming engines are very noisy!

[@Norshuttle97]

The Trislander is just a thing of beauty !

[@robainscough]

Great video Sam! So glad you could get more cockpit footage in this one.

[@AviaGrapher_ID]

Fokker 70 & Britten Norman Trislander is Awesome 😎👍

[@davew5383]

Sam, You get to have all the fun, I am always happy to see you getting excited and sharing your experiences with us👍🙂

[@Republic-Of-Me-Travel]

Haha i love it, Sam cant get enough of the jet exhaust - thats gold 😊

[@bernardtan3639]

Wow! Sam, it must be an amazing experience flying on those aircrafts. Thank You for sharing 👍🏻

[@skeelo69]

Sam met the Fokkers. 😂😂😂😂

[@davidsolis6691]

Great video Sam! Loved the variety and how you discussed the aircraft and St Marten too! Interesting and fun! Thanks so much for letting us travel with you Sam!

[@avroanthonyidris441]

Hi Sam, I flew this typical Fokker 70 back in 2014/2015 with the previous operator in Indonesia (TransNusa). I’m so glad to see this aircraft is still flying! Brings me back some memories! Loved the aircraft very much.

[@deloresthomas5624]

Great video. Brought back many memories. Use to fly from St. Thomas to St. Martin many times. Caribbean Airports are great to fly in and out of.

[@BD-qq4fn]

Fantastic post! A Folker 70 and Trilander…..amazing! Thanks Sam!

[@rickyhr727]

Pretty interesting and educating the remarks regarding the idle reversers on Fokker F70/F100. I noticed the same when flying in AA an AV F100 years ago. After deep research the captain on Jet Air gave the right answer. It is only used on emergency situations. Even more interesting, F70 and F100 came from the F28 family which engines were not provided with thrust reversers system. The tail cone splits acting as a speed brake effectively (F70 and F100 have same feature too.)

[@abdulbari7809]

Awesome Video, My Favourite Place, Really wish to go there. Thanks For The Virtual Experience😊

[@kiwiwhispers]

Super interesting video! Thanks Sam!

[@wagnerbejaranocarvalho9971]

Night Sam, its nice to see your smile, and we had a great time flying togheter with you with these marcelous scenes.

[@matipre]

That airplane from Anguila remembered me like the car Homer designed 😂

[@leezinke4351]

Awesome video Sam!!

[@user-rl5nd3ys8p]

Great seat position Sam.

[@IOSALive]

Sam Chui, This is awesome! I subscribed because I want to see more!

[@SamChui]

Thanks for subbing!

[@Nooticus]

As always, really unique and entertaining video

[@ennyalsaphirass_b]

Thanks Sam, this is awesome and cool video, sitting behind the captain! I enjoyed the view! 🙂

[@TheCaptain_Haoting]

that landing at the end some just different

[@BigDaddyLicious]

Nice to see my former colleagues at JetAir… great guys. Thanks Sam for the video.

[@TheRareVideosXL]

Awesome content as always.

[@samjacobson5500]

Nice!!!! Hoping you will be on the Inaugural Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on Monday. I’ve been excited for it.

[@SamChui]

I will be on Tuesday HA11 SFO-HNL

[@samjacobson5500]

@@SamChui Nice!!!!

[@tommyovesen]

Great video Sam!

[@nettyleito4095]

Great to see you visited our island Curaçao 🇨🇼 in PJ-JAB 😊

[@user-jr7of9tm3d]

OMG SAM YOU WAS HERE!!!!! I WISH I WOULD HAVE MET YOU

[@ojosef4608]

Awesome video. I would like to ride on these ancient planes. These pilots looked very efficeint and confortable to fly with.

[@mbuguajecy]

This is awesome

[@stoomtreinenmeer]

Fokker aircraft remain beautiful aircraft

[@awesomeadamfrom2099]

Awesome job sam with airplane vlog I been at Martin before it s great island

[@SamChui]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@awesomeadamfrom2099]

I did

[@MrJdubb104]

Awesome Plane

[@SamChui]

It sure is!

[@MileHighFlyer]

Loved the view of the engine and the engine sounds... like a baby 717 😂

[@TheMarioDeMario]

Great to see my other 'home' Curaçao 🇨🇼

[@mahmoodsoleja9068]

Very nice ! 🌟

[@Xiaolin835]

0:17 it smells so good ( jet fuel ) 😂😂

[@kcplanespotting8812]

I love your videos sam

[@chiang_paul]

Thank you for sharing this video 😂❤❤❤

[@SamChui]

My pleasure 😊

[@donstravelsandrants.]

Fantastic. 👍😊💙

[@mikzaviation]

Qatari Rafale looking absolutely pristine

[@ramkaranpal3461]

Hi Sam, I love your every vlogs 💖.

[@News.happenings.updates]

I flew as a Flight Attendant onboard the Fokker-27 … love it.

[@BrainwenAlekanta]

For your information sir, that Fokker 70 (PJ-JAB) is first delievered to Vietnam Airlines in 1997, then went to TransNusa in 2015 and finally delievered to JetAir Caribbean in Dec 2019, the engines were made by Rolls-Royce model RR Tay 620-15

[@neilgandhi5565]

Yes man great vlog a bit of the U.K. in the Caribbean 😊😊😊😊

[@TravelonlineWalk]

Amazing, we fly to Fuerteventura next

[@Siah_frm_john]

yoo the pilot for Anguilla air services is my cousin kyle. I just stumbled on this vid. Ive told him many times to go fly bigger planes i never knew he flew a rare plane Edit : i did not know you put my cousins name in the description till the video was done

[@SamChui]

Kyle is a great aviator who loves flying!

[@Siah_frm_john]

@@SamChui i know he is, I want to become a pilot just like him i sent the vid to my mom cuz she is in Anguilla she saw him last night and will be seeing him later so i told her to show him the video she also told me he is flying right now.

[@wenslyoscario9503]

Great vlog and speaking my native language🙌🏽🇨🇼🛫

[@edhiwiluyo318]

Maybe ,The Foker 70 aircraft is used from Pelita air in Indonesia.

[@9Y-Aviation]

Glad you made it down to the Caribbean Sam! You should try out Caribbean airlines, thr ATR that you spotted at the timestamp is one of their regional aircraft. It’s a wonderful airline and definitely worth trying 12:17

[@frankgrimesification]

Used to love flying the Mother Fokker with US Airways back in the day. Flew the F 100 a bunch of times, but was never on the F 70.

[@clarencegomes7412]

Sam the snack cheeze curls you had on the jet air flight is from my country Trinidad hope you visit soon. I enjoy your videos!

[@fivemilesup]

Great video of the baby Fokkker. Next video please show the mother Fokker.

[@Suursaadik]

Very COOL memory!!! 😍

[@dominicjoseph5902]

I always enjoy your videos. You should visit Guyana, you will get the chance to experience alot of bush flying.

[@shahzadjhandir9495]

So lovely 😍 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@sainnt]

I flew on the F28 when I was a kid, so it's really nice to see that video. I'm fairly sure I flew on the F100 too, but I just can't remember when.

[@HoneyBadger_____]

Alliance Airlines in Australia is the largest fleet of Fokker 70/100 QantasLink (Network Aviation) is slowly phasing them out for the A319. I believe Virgin Australia Regional Airlines has 4 left of their Fokker 100s that’s getting replaced by the 737-700s from KLM. All of them do mining charters around Australia mostly in Western Australia the mining state. The airline Air Niugini in Papua New Guinea operates a couple of F70/100 for their domestic service and to Cairns, Queensland.

[@ocker2000]

Really enjoyed this video. I have never been to St. Maarten. But I did work on rebuilding plans after the hurricanes. Its a really sad story that the money that IS available for fixing that airport terminal and other facilities is not being used due to island politics. As for the Trislander it triggered me because it was the plane type whose pilot and passengers witnessed two massive UFO's over the UK Channel islands. (ref. James Fox documentary and Leslie Kean's bestseller book on UFO's). You should consider making an episode on UFO/UAP with commercial pilot Christaan van Heijst.

[@rahellin]

Love Jetair 🇨🇼

[@chrisvanwamel758]

Sehhhh guyy

[@grantp.5700]

You and a Canadian KZbinr Alex Praglowski definitely could have been in St. Maarteen at the same time. Nice video!

[@garyshephard3795]

Spent a day on the beach at SXM in January 2019, my camera's shutter need a good rest after that day, awesome place!

[@sarkarbroadband]

Nice

[@greatorex4130]

Hey Sam 👋 love the channel 😁 Next time your in Sydney get in touch with the guys from SYDSQUAD for some great planespotting 👍🏻

[@ozzy7804]

Hey sam. Recently we use to have a fokker 50 operating between bonaire and curacao but now our biggest is the yetair from your video. But the most used is the saab fro EZair. Also we fly with little prop planes between the islands.. its a lot of fun especial the 6 seater from DIVIDIVIair (and the roomers are tru. We fix things with ducktape or not at al)

[@DekaAviation]

I love it, princess juliana international airport saint maritin

[@user-jr7of9tm3d]

I always see it all the time

[@mLi75]

SAM you should see what's coming in to Barbados these days Up to 20 years ago, you'd see MD83s, Dash 8s, YS11s, TriStar 500s, IL62s

[@pjmbuleau_images.]

There are few 70s here in Papua New Guinea and Australia. Hope one day you fly in to PNG 🇵🇬 SO SOME FANS LIKE ME CAN MEET YOU IN PERSON 😊😊😊

[@derekb.miller3457]

Every time I hear Fokker I think of the movie “Meet the Parents”….lol IYKYK

[@derder23]

Finally reach my home town sam

[@ChilzSub0]

7:03 holy guacamole its GWOON from the netherlands

[@owenhealy7109]

Sam Chui , alliance airlines in Australia have the biggest fleet of F70/100’s in the world.

[@SamChui]

Thanks letting me know!

[@chinolatino7314]

Papiamento is our local language that we speak within the three ABC islands

[@PeterNGloor]

I got to fly on the predecessor, the Fokker-28, in Sweden. Too bad the line was discontinued by Fokker.

[@williamtsao6604]

Very interesting ; suggest to have HDR version of some videos.

[@shabbirbaldiwala7369]

I wish we had such relaxed flying experiences in India

[@m.rizadjoeli357]

Wow...amazing Sam... I like flying with Fokker.. I've flown with the Fokker "Citilink" in 2001... Why aren't there many passenger ?🤔🤷‍♂️

[@ZMN13]

I hope you loved Curaçao🇨🇼

[@anguscovoflyer95]

Fokker 70's and 100's fly in australia too currently.

[@HAZ_XR]

Hey Sam, Next Time You Try Alliance Airlines In Australia, They Have Many Fokker 70s and even 100s, They Fly Ti Many Regional Places Like The Carribean But Just In Australia, Hope You Consider Trying Them, Happy Flying✌️

[@MeTravel247]

You surely enjoyed it 😉

[@SamChui]

Always!

[@awg6397]

My goodness, that Fokker landing was smooth as glass. I didnt realizr he was down until he hit the thrust reversers

[@Siah_frm_john]

no thrust reversers where used on the F70 he used the buckets to slow down

[@SN57ONE]

I hope they could find the first Fokker 70 produced and they will repaint it with a special livery named "The Mother-Fokker".

[@jasonfrancis5570]

Hi Sam one of these day you should visit the island of st Thomas st croix and San Juan thx

[@ataphotographyUK]

Fokkers are my all time favourite airliners. However, those are not the last ones. Australias Alliance still have a large fleet of Fokker 70s & 100s.