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@COORS5766

14 күн бұрын

Can you do a video on that drill head or the head of the TBM? That was fascinating!

@MrCaiobrz

12 күн бұрын

Can you do a journalistic video explaining why VPNs are useless, most of the advertisements are fooling the people and there are still big companies such are yourself falling for it for the easy $$$ (Selling our integrity)? yes, only way I will ever trust TheB1M again after a video that is 20% selling this thing

@SMGJohn

10 күн бұрын

I wont ever use it, sue me Chinese Communist party!

New drinking game: Take a shot every time he says “In the world”

@NewCastleIndiana

15 күн бұрын

He might someday age into looking like Clarkson, as well.

@acommenter

15 күн бұрын

Fred is vying for a spot on top gear.

@davefarmery8180

15 күн бұрын

I'd be pissed after 4 minutes 😅

@nottherealrashnar

15 күн бұрын

or "...on Earth."

@DangerB0ne

14 күн бұрын

You'll end up with the most cirrhosis ridden liver ...in the world.

Scared the death out of me, when I first flew in. You could actually see people in their apartments.

@only_1_kinobi

14 күн бұрын

And what they were watching on television

@washoecreative595

14 күн бұрын

I flew in at night. And this was before the airport became internet famous. The worse aspect I remember was waiting for 20-30 minutes in a mob of hundreds of travelers trying to get transport into the city.

@sam08g16

14 күн бұрын

What if you see a naked grandma

@catchaser52

14 күн бұрын

I wonder how they feel,,,,

@nezbrun872

13 күн бұрын

Yeah, but I bet you miss it, like I do.

Aways love a video about Hong Kong. 1:38 99.9% on time is actually one of the most useless stat you can give about the Hong Kong MTR, I mean that in the best way, because the trains are so frequent (one every 3 min ish when I lived there) that nobody checks train times so you don't even know if the trains are late. IMO train frequency is a better metric than how on time it is. Great video as always.

@maximusdeep

14 күн бұрын

yep and in rush hour the trains arrive 1 minute apart in busy lines.

@ObristPlayep

8 күн бұрын

@@maximusdeepRush hour at Admiralty station, the trains on Island Line arrive every 30 seconds or so. It's absolutely insane. As a commuter I cannot imagine my life if it wasn't this efficient

@javierponders

8 күн бұрын

@@maximusdeep yet in la, metrolink considers being 20 minutes late as being on time

@uu78kk

3 күн бұрын

Still, many Hong Kong residents are still not satisfied with the service

I've lived in Hong Kong now for just over 11 years (from Scotland) and I've been seeing new roads, buildings, highway bridges, tunnels, MTR lines every single year since arriving. The new Chek Lap Kok airport is being expanded now too. Hong Kong really is an infrastructure Mecca.

@cv990a4

14 күн бұрын

Speaking of which, one of the last times I arrived in Kai Tak I was sitting in a window seat and got a magnificent view of all the infrastructure under construction for the new airport. It was like watching a gigantic model train set unfold beneath me. And then seeing the checkerboard up-close-and-personal just before landing (aircraft aimed for a checkboard pattern painted onto the hill, for its final turn, which you can just see in the opening video if you look carefully).

@PatrickStuart2012

14 күн бұрын

I remember when I was at school in hk watching the aircraft from the windows coming into land. Was always awesome! Miss hk loads (lived up in Sai Kung)

@pingpongdonkeykongkong

14 күн бұрын

I live across the border in Shenzhen which is also an infrastructure mecca for those that like construction. Seems it never stops. HK is truly an incredible place tho.

@kaihang4685

14 күн бұрын

Hong Konger here - my favourite is Ṯsing Yi Island because it’s a bridge enthusiast’s paradise with three giant bridges spanning out of it! I’ve only ever seen the Scottish give us a run for our money. The Forth Bridges across the Firth were amazing to behold in person.

@alectang1614

14 күн бұрын

@@cv990a4 yeah I remember landing in Kai tak as a kid. There was one time our British Airways flight had to abort landing. I remember that very clearly!

This project is super awesome, but if you’re looking for more HK engineering content then a historic look at the build out of the new airport and the crazy logistics required to shift all the equipment between flights when Kai Tak was shut down is definitely worth looking at. Not to mention the switch over from British to Chinese ownership, a project on an insane deadline, and crazy engineering challenges related to rail, road, and reclaimed land.

@My-nl6sg

15 күн бұрын

the quad-track local + express airport rail connection and the transit oriented mixed used development over stations is worthy of its own episode

@porkpie2884

14 күн бұрын

"Super ......." is so 2022 🤣

@philtucker1224

14 күн бұрын

Sounds awesome W2 - you should do it! ( come on buddy, have a go!) 😁👍

@woodduck2178

14 күн бұрын

​@@porkpie2884Are you 5 years old?

@porkpie2884

13 күн бұрын

@@woodduck2178 Looking for young children are you? I think I'd better alert the authorities.

That airport is much missed by many old travel enthusiasts. It was reputedly the best “E-ticket ride” in the skies. I was too young and missed it, but I sure regret not having the experience.

@chrisforrester7782

14 күн бұрын

Thanks to this comment I had to educate myself as to what and "E-Ticket ride" was! New knowledge acquired, thanks Dean 🙂

@relaxingnaturevideos1203

14 күн бұрын

@@chrisforrester7782Disneyland, they had tickets for each ride back in the days when it was pay-per-ride and the tickets went form A for the most simple attractions to E for the most exiting and expensive ones. Just saying so u guys don’t have to research xD

@CockatooDude

11 күн бұрын

@@relaxingnaturevideos1203 Thank you! That was very helpful.

The world's most terrifying airport. Lukla in Nepal might like to have that crown.

@egill624

14 күн бұрын

I heard Thimphu's airport in Bhutan is really tough to land in as well

I came here to watch sponsors but the content of the channel was distracting

@garytheosophilus

14 күн бұрын

There’s no such thing as free YT

@CharlesLechmere_the_Ripper

14 күн бұрын

​@@garytheosophilus There is such a thing as 'to long and to many ad's' It is getting ridiculous and out of hand now, were close to spending more time on watching ad's than on the actual content. If we arent there already.

@Argylleagen

14 күн бұрын

​@@CharlesLechmere_the_RipperWho decides what's too long? The creator. Because he's the one paying the bills. As for us, there not a better more viable system to switch to. So the least we can do is stop crying

@KelvinTan133

14 күн бұрын

KZread Revanced

@brettsmithhanlon2495

14 күн бұрын

*too

i will never use surf shark if for no other reason than them forcing me to constantly skip over ads in videos.

@parth__agarwal

15 күн бұрын

I bought surfshark its so bad i bought back my old vpn

@ryanortiz2648

15 күн бұрын

Haha

@rocko44444444

15 күн бұрын

And prepare for the next: NordVPN, Incogni, Betterhelp, Brilliant, Skillshare, Nebula & Curiosity Stream.

@sgbuses

15 күн бұрын

The irony when VPNs get banned in Hong Kong in future...

@glennac

15 күн бұрын

Entitled much? 😆

My first ever flight was solo from UK to HK in '97. I had a window seat facing the apartments as we banked to come in to land, that was a scary initiation to flying!

@GigglyWalrus

14 күн бұрын

long as hell too

It makes me a bit sad that I'll never experience landing at Kai Tak in a 747 and then driving by the walled city into town.

The effort put for Pedestrian subway says why hong kong public transit is so efficient. They are putting effort to make Public Transit along with being walkable across city as easier as possible. While most other countries just develop new public transit and completely forgets how walkable and easy to move around city and homes which make them unsuccessful.

@li_tsz_fung

5 күн бұрын

That is very true. If you also take look at Japan, a lot of the tunnels are underground shopping malls, going under major roads, or above metro railway. That's something Hong Kong probably can't do anymore, since a lot of the time, it was being built / structurally planned when they're building those road / rails. I feel like that is part of how you how a pedestrian subway more attractive. Instead of the mess you usually see some other countries. If a pedestrian way is under-used, it would slowly become an uncomfortable environment, along side with lack of funding for maintenance, cleaning and security

My school used to be in Kowloon City. Every couple of hours my classmates had to close our ears during class. Nobody there were concerned with the safety, merely the noise.

@nikobellic570

6 күн бұрын

Nightmare

The aviation enthusiast inside me wants Kai Tak to still be in operation. The engineering side of me is terrified of the idea of the logistics of Kai Tak.

6:15 “which shits 1.5m away” hahaha

I remember as 7 year old kid on the final approach into RWY 13 back in 1994 - A QANTAS 767-300ER What an epic view! At least you're able to recreate the landing on MSFS 2020

My hometown mentioned! And yes, pedestrian tunnels (and bridges) are common but important features throughout Hong Kong. Being a city so dense and reliant on public transportations, they are used by thousands if not millions daily to get to bypass the busy car traffic on the ground

Flying into Hong Kong airport as a 12YO sitting in the cockpit in 1981 was amazing. Cathyway Pacific was so nice to let me, and excellent service!

I will never forget landing there. It was so incredible to be in the bubble of a 747 literally flying between buildings. So amazing.

Hong Kong really does have the best mass transit in the world. Moving to a car-centric America-wannabe regional town in Australia was the biggest cultural shock for me.

The airport on Saint Martin / Sint Maarten is also pretty terrifying.

@fosterfuchs

14 күн бұрын

For spectators beyond the runway, rather than the cockpit crew/passengers.

As an airline captain, I would like to argue that the intro is a bit dramatic 😂 There is nothing unsafe about disconnecting the autopilot. Neither is it a problem to turn at 1000ft above the ground. This happens everyday multiple time on so called visual approaches. "Diving straight towards a mountain..." Have you seen the approaches into FNC (Madeira)? Quite a bit more dramatic than the 45 degree turn at 1000 ft you are referring to. Also flying low enough to see into peoples homes.. Have a look at LIS runway 02. There are procedures in place for making this possible in a safe way, (ILS). Your videos are normally great, and it's clear that you do a lot of research! But when it comes to aviation, you might wanna read up a bit...

@gigglesmurf2004

12 күн бұрын

What is the most difficult international airport to land at? Are there ones with no ILS?

@jesper1010

11 күн бұрын

@@gigglesmurf2004 Various airports have their own difficulties, but most are very straight forward. Many places only have ILS on one side of the runway, where the other side have some form of non precision approach.

@BayuAH

11 күн бұрын

I think somewhere in Nepal in the foot of Himalaya. I forgot the name, but the take-off almost 45 degree angle down straight to the cliff.

@jesper1010

11 күн бұрын

@@BayuAH kzread.info/dash/bejne/enykuM6faJDbdKw.htmlsi=Zw69hQD_s3IQJNix This circling onto 04 in AMS is quite nice.

@paradise_valley

Күн бұрын

@@BayuAH Lukla I believe it's called

St. Maarten the Princess Juliana International Airport is freaking crazy 🤣✅🪣📃😅

whoa that rectangular TBM is mind blowing

I must say, I was not expecting this to be a pedestrian access project. Nice reveal at the end. Kudos to another excellent video, B1M.

HK mentioned, wtf is a competent government 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥

I missed out on Kai Tak since the first time I visited Hong Kong was in '98, but I would always read about how risky landing at the old airport was.

Having both flown into the old Hong Kong airport (and just flown out of the new one literally last week), I can say the new one is a vast improvement.

B1M should do a video on Kowloon walled city. It was demolished in the late 90’s but was a fantastically interesting place.

@yensteel

14 күн бұрын

The remains now reside in Kowloon Walled City Park. There's so many quirks and oddities indeed!

Fred, that move slightly away from the camera for the Surfshark ad was classic. Almost Bond-esque! The only thing missing was “my name is Mills…Fred Mills”

Another brilliant docu from Fred & team 👍

so proud of my city. i lived 10 minutes from kai tak.

Another great B1M video, but I have a slight criticism. If the old airport got redeveloped, where is the new one and how do it's logistics work? It would have been just a neat little inclusion to top off a nearly perfect video!

@runderdfrech3560

14 күн бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mYWIt66rob3Imto.html

I've traveled for pleasure and business for decades and have no fear of flying except landing in Hong Kong or Sint Martin, both are scary airports for arrivals.

I lived there back in thelate70s- early 80s and it always scared me witless coming in (they were still shaving the mountains down at that time.

Flew into Kai Tak several times in the 80’s and absolutely loved it. Could even see what the tenants were watching on their tvs under the airplane as it came in for a landing

I just came back from Hong Kong and holy that city is beautiful. As a New Yorker I’ll say New York is still better but if I’m being honest Hong Kong was objectively just… holy moly that reshaped how I see cities.

@mypasswordisuod7f1kwjrvzx32

8 күн бұрын

Hongkonger here, would you mind sharing how Hong Kong reshaped the way you see cities? I have never been to NYC so I can’t really tell the differences from my own perspective

So lucky to have landed at kai tak and live in hong kong in the early 90s seeing concorde land was the best sight

Great video but I want to know more about that square head TBM and if its been in use anywhere else in the world and/or if it can be scaled up to use on other types of projects and how it compares in both time and economics...

Landing at the Hong Kong Airport in 1995 is still a very memorable experience! Genuinely could look into people’s apartments!

something very similar to this is happening in Toronto with the Downsview airport redevelopment. Definitely worth checking out!!!

I was there! First time visiting Hong Kong, one year after the takeover in 1997. I and my Taiwanese fiancé were visiting our Hong Kong friends, a couple, where the husband worked for the government monitoring the dopplers at the airport and various installations. He also gave us a tour of the new airport before it opened up. It was really quite amazing!

When I first heard about RTBMs I thought they were a hoax, but seeing them in action is so cool!

I used to live near Kai Tak Airport back in the 1980s and, from experience, I still couldn’t believe that there had yet to have a crash in the nearby neighborhood as a child growing up in Hong Kong. While I have been looking forward to seeing the transition in person one day, the controversial Article 23 and National Security Law have made my dream trip practically impossible.

I've been to Hong Kong in 2015. It's public transport system is insanely good.

Landed in Kai Tak in Feb 1998. Amazing experience but glad they opened the new airport.

I used to love flying in/out of Kai Tak it was a bit of a roller coaster ride! I remember flying out of Kai Tak once, and at end of the runway (of to the left) was a KLM 747 fitted with an optional front landing wheel delete package

@spam_slayed1481

14 күн бұрын

I remember seeing the China Airlines Flight that went off the end of the runway into the water. It sat in the water for quite a while.

China: where'd everybody go?😢 USA: 😂😂😂

I have heard that there’s an airport in Nepal that is at least as scary due to the unforgiving altitude, weather, and terrain.

I live very near to Choi Hung, Hong Kong. It's amazing that you know more than I do.

This KZread channel is 1 of my faves so interesting and delivered in a very informative way. Keep up the great work. ps... Could you come to Stoke-on-Trent and do a video on the biggest infrastructure project the area of Longton has ever had. Next month Stoke Council will be finally filing the massive pothole on Anchor Road. Once done 8 hours later the whole Stoke-on-Trent metropolitan area will be running like clock work.

I remember flying into Kai Tak as a kid, it was called the Checkerboard approach. It was quite a thrill unless you were a nervous flyer.

I miss Kai Tak. I remember flying there often with Mom when I was a wee fella.

Great to see you showcase Greencoat Place : )

Absolutely great content as always!

Undeniably the best channel in this genre. Love every single episode. Top shelf. Cheers.

150k ppl on that small area? Im getting PTSD by just hearing it....

Worth mentioning that when landing the pilot is aiming at the big red and white checkerboard you can see on the side of the hill. They fly straight towards it till they pass over an apartment block with another visual marker on its roof. That tells them exactly where to turn to line up with the runway. It was the most common airport model purchased for commercial flight simulators. No commercial airliner pilot landed there without having done simulated landings.

landing at Kai Tak was fun. Check in with a standby ticket was not: Captain next to the counter, guesstimating passengers weight to calculate the take off weight to be able to clear the mountain.

I love the 3D animations - they explain the ideas clearly!

Could you make this development a series?

The area as changed so much, went last week too the airside shopping centre its nice. I really wish i had a go at kai tak tho lol

I landed there at night back in the early 90s. Didn't seem terrifying as a passenger, but looking at the apartment building windows was interesting for sure.

3:17 (for the car nerds) if you don't notice theres a Mercades Mclaren SLR on the right side stuck in traffic

I lived in HK from 1995 to 2000, so I experienced the old and the new aiports. Kai Tak is mythical, I had so many epic landings! The new airport is much better in terms of infrastructure, but it was such an anti-climax landing there when it opened compared to Kai Tak. For people living in the old neighborhood, the closing of the aiport was a blessing. For flying enthusiasts, it was a disaster.

I remember flying in and out of that old airport. I miss that thrill.

The second part about the tunnel is good, but overall, the redevelopment so far is a failure. The cruise terminal is not easy to access and few ships coming, the mall inside the terminal is hardly and shops. For the residential and commercial, plan for rail connection has been changed between build and not build, very limited public transport to previous runway area, leasing of commercial building is also very bad, even for those just above subway station has just 50% leasing rate. For the sport's stadium, near finish but still developing, not much can be commented.

@canto_v12

14 күн бұрын

It’s still a work in progress. The KT cruise terminal is not really convenient but cruise passengers can be dealt with by feeder buses.

It’s jut like a story in Jakarta’s Kemoryan Airport operated from 1955 until 1983 when it was converted into developed land like parks and condominiums

I remember landing there in the early '80's. I was a teenager at the time and really did think we were going to crash.

Wow! I flew into this airport once in the mid 90's en route to Singapore. I remember seeing peoples laundry during the landing. It is no exaggeration about seeing inside people apartments or it being scary. We deplaned, but those who were continuing on to Singapore did not get to go to the airport. They bussed us to a crowded waiting room where we were kept prisoner for hours. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I think they didn't even have a bathroom. The whole experience was surreal.

Very enjoyable as always 👍

As a kid, I landed in 747s several times at Kai Tek. Best time ever.

My grandfather on my mom side he was captain for years for Canadian Air line before Air Canada bought the company in 1999. He flew to that airport couple times in his career and he said he hated landed there because it was very dangous. Also, he flew the F-86 and F-104 for the RCAF in the 1960's.

Rectangular TBMs have been used in the Saskatchewan potash mines for over 50 years. There is roughly 40 of them in operation currently.

Flew there once on a Thai 747. I was 10 so I didn’t know that anything was special about it until I was older.

Shout-out to the background music. Yin Yin is great.

The RTBM is such a clever machine!

@chriv8429

11 күн бұрын

Its not

Landed there in 1994. I was not prepared for being close enough to the buildings to see a man shaving.

When I flew in in 1988, I thought I was flying through a laundomat. Drying clothes everywhere. Unforgettable landing.

Miss kai tak airport, it was such a rollercoaster of a landing

In the early 1990's, my dad was working for MWH, who was responsible for the drainage design of the new Hong Kong Airport. MWH was desperate for staff, and I was offered a job in Hong Kong for the duration of the project. But I was stupid and turned it down.

I do like the idea of the new TBM, that is what you really call thinking outside the box😂

The Lulka airport where they fly off a mountain is wicked! A video on that would be cool.

I’ve been to HK for business but it was at the new airport,,,, The old one was in Kowloon 😮

I read somewhere that pilots had to get a special permit to land in the old HK airport, bc of how hard it was

thank you for introducing this tunnel. I live in that area.

I flew into Kai Tak just once. I'd made sure of a right-side window seat. It was everything you describe - what Disney used to call an E-ride.

I was fortunate to have flown in and out of the old airport. It was terrifying as much as it was fascinating!.....and yes, you could look into the apartments as you landed.

We need a lot more tunnels in the world. Australia could do with more tunnels for trains, we're running out of suburban roads. Everyone has a car and it just can't continue if people are moving into apartments closer in.

Another fantastic video I am abit of a plane spotter and enjoyed this.

It only took 20 years to start planning to redevelop it 💀

I was flying in from Seattle (w/ a stopover in Japan) I was woken by a steward for landing and I looked out the window to see buildings whizzing by... oh! Oh!

Please do some new engineering marvels in India including ahmedabad- Mumbai bullets train, Mumbai costal hightway, Mumbai trans harbour link, Mumbai metro, expressways, Rrts trains etc

Never forget when i enjoy sitting in cockpit on a fully loaded 747-400 land at Kai Tak in windy weather and heavy rain.

RTBMs really should be standard in transit construction, as they would allow for shallower cheaper stations without forcing disrupting cut-and-cover on an entire artery. Compared with the deep bore TBM construction methods that often balloon subway costs to $500m per km, this looks like it could be half the price per km and feature much more accessible stations. Remember that cut and cover isn't merely cheaper because it doesn't require a TBM, it's cheaper because station platforms can be located 8 meters below the surface instead of 24 meters, which can be the difference between a station costing $50 million and $150 million. Of course there will always be projects where deep bore TBM or regular circular TBM is necessary, but I imagine there's serious cost and times savings by utilizing shallow RTBM that transit planners and engineers should seriously consider.

Thus system is very interesting, but it seems to me that can be used only for short tunnels, like this one, because there is a limit of how much force you can push into the precasted section of the tunnel being added one after the other. And that is the limit.

Seems to me that some of the effect of a rectangular tunnel means it would need a stronger/thicker roof the wider the unsupported roof is. Especially in relation to how well the ground above holds together.

Damn shame Kai Tak closed. Would've loved to fly in on a 747, or concorde back in the day (and then go visit Kowloon walled city). Was fun to land there on flight simulator

God I miss that old airport! The landing was epic!