Why So Many Airport Runways Cross the US-Canada Border

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[@TheEccentricMage]

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*

[@ryankohnenkamp8946]

Looks like somebody's going to be on Quarter as Interesting...!

[@Highlandword9]

@@ryankohnenkamp8946 yepp

[@janzendavi]

A grave and unforgivable error

[@fillherbut1880]

I commented something about that and saw this, so left a like :)

[@JPurvis10]

RIP

[@Sierra-Golf-19]

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.

[@davidhimmelsbach557]

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.

[@Sierra-Golf-19]

@@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.

[@randomobserver8168]

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.

[@LadyZeldaia]

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.

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

And then the US responded to those declarations by declaring war on Germany and Italy.

[@TheGeographyBible]

It's remarkable how many completely random yet intriguing topics this channel can think of

[@winterwatson6811]

and timely and topical!

[@NotinEzugo]

Guess it’s called Half as interesting for a reason

[@Jehty_]

They don't think about anything. They just look through Wikipedia till they find something half as interesting.

[@General12th]

@@Jehty_ No, they think about _everything._ Their minds are powerhouse supercomputers that operate question-considering algorithms 24/7.

[@CodytheDeer]

@bruh It was called "That Wikipedia List" on wendover productions, before this channel was a thing

[@marinemanaphy101]

More people have acknowledged the existence of Coutts, Alberta this year than in any other year in history

[@ChaoticAphrodite]

Ugh. Don’t remind me. I don’t want to think about Alberta existing much less Coutts.

[@marinemanaphy101]

@@ericgeorgetruckgrilling go fight for your right to a shower or something lol

[@DioTheGreatOne]

​@@ChaoticAphrodite Vancouverite/Torontonian detected!

[@Dr_Do-Little]

Canada didn't "accidentally became the 51st state. U.S.A. was accidentally admitted as Canada 11th province. 😉

[@johnladuke6475]

10th province. We still hadn't let the Newfies in yet, that didn't come around until '49.

[@frankpinmtl]

They could've been "Really Lower Canada" Alaska would've been "Really Upper Canada"

[@Dielektrium]

"Hitler was secretly a nazi!" My mind is so blown i need to watch atleast 2 hours of videos explaining the logistics of things!

[@sanchu6335]

Moral of the story: make your horses do things that you legally can't

[@narfharder]

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."

[@shawbury25]

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.

[@HGRAP1]

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

[@adamcetinkent]

​@@HGRAP1 What an irrelevant point! This is about who was fighting a war

[@iamjustaviewer6416]

Sam is the master of stretching a weird fact into a full video

[@LO-lm4zh]

So basically how Cory moved peoples' lawn furniture to the curb, and then Ricky picked it up in his trailer? Nothing illegal about that 😃

[@Wanking_wanker]

I like how he still managed to insult Newark airport in this video continuing his grudge

[@enderboy1824]

2:41 that little voice crack is golden and cherished

[@nitehawk86]

Once again, tractors dragging military hardware.

[@AtarahDerek]

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?

[@johncleese-mogg365]

I hate how he keeps calling the UK 'england'

[@aidanw9378]

Piney Pinecreek sounds like somebody decided to let the Internet choose a new town's name.

[@K1W1fly]

Do you think you could possibly get the "England vs UK" thing correct?

[@Merten2206]

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

[@CliveCooperford]

England is not the UK.

[@DavidM2002]

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.

[@isorukuyamamoto7638]

You’re aware that, at 3:43, the plane in the illustration is flying in from Canada and not the US, right?

[@brookiecookie472]

It's not England, it's the UK

[@c0okle]

L

[@jonnyr-w1681]

The animation of the French flag turning white at 2:25 gave flashbacks of the end of this year's r/place

[@FantasKanal]

3:00 its called Bananada!

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

Holy shit, Sam pronounced Calgary correctly! I am unreasonably proud of Sam for that.

[@thomasrinschler6783]

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).

[@liam6nugget]

Cool video idea for a similar topic: Airports in two time zones. Eg, Gold Coast Airport in Australia

[@pacificostudios]

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."

[@njdevilku1340]

3:43 Why are planes flying into Sweetgrass, Montana from the north???

[@interstate1335]

The “sucks” thing at the beginning had me crashing up.

[@vit78ify]

I love how this channel managed to take the popular "watchmojo-like" format and make it actually good, interesting, funny and educational

[@fantasticmio]

Yes, the US has a long history of drafting laws that seem like they apply to everyone, but in fact, are specifically designed to help some people while screwing others. This one about paying up front was at least used for good...

[@DracoGalboy]

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.

[@Lazydino59]

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

[@bicyclist2]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[@lukedaduke3533]

Huge shoutout to Newark for literally never getting my bags on to my connecting flight, ever

[@thomasaquinas2600]

My mother was from Toronto. Canadians are fiercely independent, or so they say, yet they vacation here, have business here, freely cross the border and return (with proper ID), and come to our aid in times of war. They have been loyal friends, in general, 2nd only to Australia. It would be nice to have Canada as a state (never happen) but oh well.

[@brodriguez11000]

Keeping each country out of the respective countries politics is a goal.

[@ryuuguu01]

My dad worked in a gold mine in 1939 and was not allowed to join the military because Canada needed gold to pay the U.S. for military supplies, so had made it illegal to quit jobs at gold mines. In 1941 The U.S. declared war on Japan this brought into war against Germany and my dad joined the army.

[@Tomec86]

Sam: (You) pay me to talk about little airports Me: Wait I pay you?

[@sydnyx]

lmao HAI useing war thunder for background footage at 1:24

[@peach4973]

another aviation vid from HAI 😍

[@Peterwhy]

1:58 the Earth is mirrored.

[@shaun__3]

Says "England" but displays the UK flag and means the UK several times...yes the home nation viewers aren't going to like this!

[@kingkane]

AYE. If I sit through your all your ads without hittin skip, consider me ya Boss.

[@J_321Ignition]

Loved this video! Excellent topic!

[@michaelladue5655]

Here's to living next to one of those airports.

[@roelsvideosandstuffs1513]

Oh boy how that 2 conditions are not met today.

[@alexandergutierrez6521]

At 3:44 the plane came from the north east but should’ve come from anywhere south if they were coming from the us

[@timburnell5707]

Impossible to watch as he repeatedly says England when displaying a British flag and talking about Britain. Get the basics right.

[@gotham61]

To get even a bit more pedantic, it should be the United Kingdom, not Britain. Technically speaking, Great Britain includes England, Scotland, and Wales, but not Northern Ireland.

[@williamjones7163]

I've been to sweetgrass Montana. Depending on the way the wind was blowing you could turn left into Canada and right into USA. Customs was a bitch.

[@victord.monkey9081]

hey I have a question: whats the protocol of the US if an UFO appears above a city. Do they instantly shoot it down?

[@iamjustaviewer6416]

Or do they extradite it to france to get arrested?

[@victord.monkey9081]

@@iamjustaviewer6416 I dont have the reference

[@iamjustaviewer6416]

@@victord.monkey9081 In France it is illegal to fly a flying saucer

[@RickImus]

Check out the Battle of Los Angeles in 1942.

[@cloverisfan818]

I literally got an airline ad on this video

[@3rdalbum]

I've always wondered by Gold Coast airport in Australia is mostly in the state of Queensland and partially in the state of New South Wales? It seems like a beaurocratic nightmare to have an aircraft taxiing between two different states

[@liam6nugget]

It’s just a space issue on two fronts Front 1: there isn’t much land suitable for an airport on the Gold Coast (it’s either too hilly or too swampy, and the too swampy bit is now too housing estatey) Front 2: when they built the Coolangatta airport, it was initially all in Queensland, but the arrival of the jet age meant the runway needed to be extended. They couldn’t go north due to high ground, private property and the Pacific Highway being in the way, so the runway was extended south across the border. Fun fact: this means you can land in a different time zone to what the terminal half the year because NSW has daylight saving

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

As a mn pilot one airport in many of our “ bucket lists” is Pineycreek solely because half of it is in Canada

[@Nixontheman]

Thanks Sammy

[@brostrod]

imagine you get on a flight from the US to canada but never leave the ground just a really hyped up bus trip

[@HeyKevinYT]

I fly through Newark International Airport 4 times a year and the way you showed it sucks, idk what my emotions should be 😂

[@AlanTheBeast100]

Kinda miffed that the huge number of airplanes brought into Quebec From NY (VT too?) weren't mentioned. (Yeah, there was no runway involved, but there were tractors and horses).

[@nelsonbrycer]

So apparently Jakub from TheStraightPipes has another career in stock footage at 4:43

[@janklasek1619]

Found a mistake in your video (might get into one of your video about your mistakes???) - Canada would have been 49th state at the time :)

[@saintjust5925]

England? When you even show the flag of the UK?

[@lzh4950]

0:42 Meanwhile China defines the start of WW2 even earlier, on September 18 1931 with the _Mukden_ Incident

[@User31129]

The White Plains, NY Airport, which I have actually utilized once or twice, ALMOST crosses over into Connecticut. But perhaps to avoid confusing jurisdiction issues, the eastern edge of the airport property is the Connecticut border. If anyone knows of an airport that actually crosses a US state line, I'd be interested to know.

[@rupe53]

that airport is also in a residential area and has restricted hours of operation for noise reasons.

[@gotham61]

Interstate 684 in New York clips the corner of Connecticut for about 1.5 miles with no exits, and the Connecticut State Police are known to patrol the stretch for speeders. They have to drive into NY to get onto the roadway.

[@rupe53]

@@gotham61 ... I hadn't really paid attention to that so good to know. I did notice the NY State Police sit by that last exit for the parkway at the line because Ct allows smaller commercial trucks on the Merrit and NY does not. I just zoomed in on a map and realized that airport goes over the NY boarder into Ct, but not the runway part. OTOH, this is really about country borders, and not state lines.

[@bulukacarlos4751]

Excellent video, I did not know. In fact, Canada would become the 49th state, since at that time there were only 48 stars on the flag. Greetings from Patagonia Argentina

[@TheJones96]

You speaking facts king

[@pacificostudios]

Ironically, Japan also could have bought weapons under the Cash and Carry policy, but they preferred to make their own military equipment.

[@thomasciarlariello3228]

North America should have been organized as "Greater Vancouver" west of what is West of Trinity, New Mexico and "Greater New York" east of what is Trinity, New Mexico.

[@thomasciarlariello3228]

"Man in the High Castle" logistics of a Northeast Asian Western America and a Central European Eastern America.

[@Snookbone]

Sticking up the Union Flag and calling it "England" is pretty disrespectful to the Scottish and Northern Irish troops who fought on our side. Not the Welsh though, they suck.

[@ffortissimo]

To be fair. The 2nd World War wasn't a WORLD war till Japan and the USA got in. It was an European war at first. My country wasn't in the war till 1940, so for us WW2 is from 1940-1945.

[@eamonnsweeney7399]

This is my favorite video in like a year. It might just be that you hit all my sweetspots.

[@AndyDeMontana]

Actually it really would be a neat video to hear about that 1970s airport...

[@willb.383]

Surprised you didn’t mention the US airport that has a cemetery in the runway.

[@GamePlague]

I thought it would be so the border crossing could count as land travel instead of international air travel.

[@nade7242]

the ww2 lend lease act just got approved for Ukraine so

[@AMD7027]

Had me at the elephant logo…

[@kennethmckay6391]

"england" you mean Britain or UK

[@716drpepper]

Zoomy boomy bois is the perfect name for jets

[@doctorwh1016]

I almost spit out my water when he said "It is becoming clear that Hitler was secretly a nazi".

[@parmesanzero7678]

Some day, someone is going to watch these videos and not realize they’re meant to be humorous and that the watcher is expected to understand which parts are jokes and which aren’t.

[@fillherbut1880]

Wouldnt Canada have been the 49th state in 1939??

[@AmyDentata]

wait a minute, the 1937 act and the 1939 act are just the same paragraph over and over again! what's a "lorem ipsum?" how did they get away with this?!

[@waedidmyhandlechange]

Newark: Sucks. It just sucks. Lol

[@tiadaid]

Shouldn't Canada be the 48th state since Alaska and Hawaii wasn't a state yet in the 1940s.

[@bhut1571]

The U.S. made a huge profit from sales to Britain. The debt wasn't repaid for decades. Slava Ukraini from Canada.

[@pikejames551]

i live near avey field state airport and you didn’t even talk about it, what the heck, how dare you, my god, etc.

[@mastermagic4413]

"Hitler was secretly a Nazi"

[@PanduPoluan]

It's "C eh? N eh? D eh?" CehNehDeh

[@WinginWolf]

2:28 the dinosaur

[@bgezal]

The logistics of US-Canadian airfields.

[@user-cj4fu8qq9b]

4:30 ferb i know what we're gonna do today

[@oliverclark9384]

Please, pleeeease - The UK or Britain, not England!

[@XIIchiron78]

I would absolutely pay you to talk about 1930s American foreign policy

[@lewatoaofair2522]

Shows flag of Britain 🇬🇧, keeps calling it England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

[@davidbudka1298]

Your take on history is killing me! 😂

[@6leoo6]

It's too obvious when the sponsor's ad is coming

[@matteframe]

did anyone else think this video would be about runaways?

[@chiefdoesgaming8269]

Saying England then showing the union flag is kidna not right. Well not kidna its definitely not right, especially when you try to come off as factual.

[@kkkk-wg6je]

War is bad.

[@ryanatkinson2978]

Lmao this is great

[@JuraIbis]

I totally forgot we were talking about airplanes and airports and was deeply invested in WW2 i could have listened for 2 hours straight

[@spencerbrown315]

Same lol, I was like "no, don't interrupt my HAI WW2 history lesson!"

[@tylerdurden788]

I'm interested in our sword wielding war eagles.

[@BoornIdentity]

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.

[@ohioanempire]

@@BoornIdentity You forgot about the British union of Fascists and National Socialists

[@sprint955st]

Have a look for the tv series The World At War

[@CaptNSquared]

"Turns out Hitler was secretly a nazi" may be my favorite joke on the channel

[@dropes]

Things we discover by chance on an airplane video and change our lives 😂