One Of The World's Most Famous Airports (And What Else To Do In GANDER, Newfoundland)
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- Gander: Crossroads of the World. There's a fair chance you've at least heard of this place, but if like us that's as far as your knowledge goes, then why not come along and discover the airport, the town, and anything else we find on this Canadian road trip? Enjoy the video!
Filmed on Monday 20th May 2024
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Steve, thank you for reminding us of the immense role player by Gander and the people of Newfoundland, during and in the aftermath of 911. The people are rightly to be commended for their humanity and empathy during the deluge of aircraft
Canada has roughly 318 billion trees, which cover almost 40% of the country. Canada's forests account for 30% of the world's forests, and the most common trees in the nation are spruce trees, which are distinguished by their needle-like leaves.
Kisses to both of you for mentioning the beauty of trees!
I was stranded in Gander in the early 70’s. My Icelandic flight developed mechanical issues and we were forced to land in Gander. We had to wait hours for a replacement aircraft and then hours due to a snowstorm. Residents of Gander came to the airport w hot soup, bread, coffee and blankets. They stayed with us, engaged us in lively conversation and stories. They were so welcoming and generous. We enjoyed our unexpected layover and I have maintained a friendship with a woman there for 50 years. They have a long history of generosity of spirit , so I wasn’t a bit surprised at their out pouring of support and love
on 9/11. I am so thankful that Canada is our neighbor .
What a lovely comment! As a Newfoundlander, it warms my heart to think you have such wonderful things to say about your unexpected visit, even after all these years. Cheers!
@@carolmurphy7572I have been back often over the years. Always a wonderful experience. Wish you could work on the fog in St John. Cheers to you.
I have so many memories of Gander, driving through on my way home from University, staying in Gander with a University friend who went on to work with NAV. No words to express the flood of memories I just had, your video has done it true justice. ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Did you check for bears in the woods?
Sounds like the best mechanical diversion ever! And would be especially weird landing somewhere few would even know where it was or that it existed at all :)
In 1978 I was serving with the Royal Air Force. I had a stop in Gander for a couple of days where I met my future wife. We are now both living in Gander. Great place.
That’s so romantic! ❤️🔥
Based at RAF Goose Bay in the 70's married a Lab girl, now in Halifax...
I used to work on the ramp in Gander for 12 years.
September 11, 2001, what’s my first day back after my days off. It was only two people scheduled to work the ramp that day I was one of them along with my lead hand Nelson Piercy. It was supposed to have been a normal day for us with flights going between Gander and Halifax and Gander and St. John’s but little did we know that it was going to be the start of the busiest week of our lives this happened on a Tuesday morning I went home on Thursday for a few hours and I never got home until Sunday evening when the last plane departed.
Great video 👍🏻
Thank you, to you and all the wonderful people of Gander and the surrounding towns/communities, for everything you did to assist the "plane people" who found themselves to be your unexpected guests in September, 2001. You have made your fellow Newfoundlanders proud by demonstrating the very best that people can be at such a terrible time. You certainly deserve the respect shown to you by everyone familiar with the "Come From Away" story! Bravo!
@@VoxRox1 Thsnk you for all you did on that horrible day and subsequent days. The hospitality and generosity made such an impression on all of us!
@@katewilliams4876😊 it’s good to be appreciated
Oh. My. Gosh. 🥲 How wonderful to say, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE - TO YOU AND TO ALL IN GANDER WHO EMBRACED ALL THOSE ON 9/11 AND NOW ALL THOSE WHO 'COME FROM AWAY'. No other words. Gratitude.
I enjoyed your video. You spoke of wanting to see the Sabina crash site. My father, Frank Tibbo, wrote a book about that crash. The book is called ‘Charlie Baker George’ after the Sabina airlines’ DC4 flight number 00CBG. The aircraft is actually quite disintegrated now. But the fuselage is still identifiable. A couple decades ago Dad arranged for Dr. Sam Martin to revisit the site via helicopter. Dr. Martin’s search team had found the survivors two days after the crash. I was told that the book is for sale at the airport gift shop. I believe Breakwater Books is still selling the book as well. Dad is known for his passion of bringing to life Gander’s rich aviation history. He was an air traffic controller, an author, TV host of ‘Milepost 213’ (he interviewed the pioneers of Gander, and the show is currently being rerun as Milepost 213 revisited) and a pilot.
It is so sad that SABENA and many other carriers have folded.
Trees in Canada estimated 318 Billion which amounts to 30% of the World's forests - Thanks again guys for a really fascinating series of Videos.
I loved Come From Away so great to see the town/airport it’s set in.
You two never disappoint me 🙏 I've been watching you for 4 years when I started watching your trip on the ferry to the Shetlands. You remain my favourite TH-camrs and this is another great one. I'm sadly not in a position to live my dream of travelling that I used to do at the moment and you keep me motivated and happy 😁 thanks guys!!
Have to absolutely agree with you...perhaps your travels may return..take care.🥰
@@carolynstewart9103 I dream to travel again as I used to do when I was a travel agent. Hope you're well 😁
Just starting to watch this, but Come From Away, the musical about what happened at Gander following the events of 9/11, is one of the greatest musicals I have ever seen - so much emotion and incredible music. I implore everyone to watch this.
It wasn't until you were stood outside the airport that it clicked about the role the airport played in 2001. Another great video with history, trail walks and a beer or two.
I landed at Gander in February 1968 in a RAF Comet, for a refuelling stop, flying from Lyneham to New York. It was cold. Ice everywhere…. I can still remember waiting in the transit lounge trying to keep warm. Not a place to visit in winter.
There was also a story of an RAF VC10 which was flying from Lyneham to Washington in winter. The navigator made a calculation error on the great circle track. Approaching the tip of Greenland, the pilot realised they were flying east, instead of west. Low on fuel, they declared an emergency. Gander was their only hope but the runway was buried in snow. A frantic effort was made by Gander airport to clear it. They just made it! Otherwise it would have been an unsurvivable ditching in the North Atlantic.
Yikes! That's a harrowing tale! But I'm relieved to find it has a happy ending. Phew!
While it was cold, I'm glad your own visit to Gander was a safe one!
I was cabin crew on RAF VC10 s and glad that didn’t happen to me. I have made lots of scheduled visits to Gander.
Wow! Thanks for sharing!
What a fascinating history the airport has. How hate from a few was matched by kindness from so many. The actual radar screen was chilling
Well said!
I saw the opening night of “Come from Away” on Broadway. Went back to the hotel and the mayor of Gander sat and had a drink with us after the show….small world 😊
What a cool memory! Thanks for sharing it!
Nice ROOTS! Steve, you ALWAYS outdo yourself in every video you make. Thanks for showing us Gander and Newfoundland.
😂I laughed when you reminded yourself to 'drive on the right'. when we were in the Highlands recently from U.S. our chant was 'drive left, drive left'. Have only been to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton ( beautiful!) but Newfoundland looks amazing, thanks for the tour. I didn't know about all the planes being stranded there on 9/11. Out of the worst of times comes the best in people❤
That airport was so cool . Loved the museum there . Enjoyed the video . Cheers
Steve. This brought back some memories. A couple of years after 9/11 I went on a tour of Newfoundland and Labrador. Our tour of course took us into Gander and out tour guide managed to get us into all the usually out of bounds areas. It was very interesting and of course so recent to 9/11. The many exhibitions weren’t there then but the airport manager who took us around told us the story of accommodating all the 9/11 travellers who were stranded here. The local people had provided so much to their visitors that, yes, long lasting friendships were made.
Root Beer. I'm like Alicia, root beer tastes & smalls like some terrible medicine.
I think everyone remembers where they were when they first heard of the 9/11 tragedy. So poignant to see the Gander airport & with no one around it made it even more surreal. Really enjoying your Canadian trip. x J x
My mother and I (then 5) stayed overnight at the Gander airport in 1955. We were returning from living in England for 3 years. The overnight temperatures in April were below freezing. The accommodation was a hard-sided-canvas room with a small window iced up on the inside from our breath. Heat was forced air, seemingly powered by a jet engine, cycling on and off. We alternated freezing and cooking. Needless to say, we got very little sleep.
Our plane was a TWA Lockheed Constellation with four props. I was invited into the cockpit to pretend to fly it while we flew over the Atlantic on auto-pilot.
Thanks for sharing! :)
Those were the days when cockpit crews allowed kids to pretend they were flying the planes on long transatlantic flights in the right-hand copilot's seat as a schoolboy when I flew in BOAC Stratocruisers, (with the autopilot on, I'm sure) when I regularly travelled between Bermuda and to and from London for school. I felt very adult and sophisticated having a ginger ale in a Strat's lower bar/lounge. Our stops included, Gander, Goose Bay in Labrador Montreal, Iceland, Santa Maria in the Azores, Lisbon. I even saw the southern tip of Greenland once. The colour of the icebergs and sunlit sea was incredible.
I have so many memories of Gander, driving through on my way home from University. Staying there with a University friend who went on to work with NAV. My brother’s engineering company. No words to describe the flash of memories this video just brought back … love, love, love ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
TV series featuring the Douglas C-47 was Airline from 1982 staring Roy Marsden.
Loved that series 👍
🇺🇸 ❤ 🇨🇦 9-11-2001, We 🇺🇸 will never forget all the great people of Gander XO 🤗
Thank you. What a lovely, thoughtful comment!
❤❤❤one of my favorite videos that you've ever posted!! I must say when you showed the 9/11 beam and spoke a bit about its history to Gander, I got a bit misty-eyed. But to then see Alicia touching the beam with such reverence, that moment moved me greatly. Thank you for honoring that moment in such a sincere way.
I love your banter and comments and your spontaneous travels. You do a lot of the things that I would want to do if I made these trips myself.
Thanks so much :)
What an incredible airport!
We enjoyed travelling with both of you again today. Looking forward to your next adventure. ❤️🇨🇦
Thank you very much for showing me a part on NF that we missed. I just love ALL your vlogs. You make such an effort for us to see such interesting areas. Watch the black flies as they are vicious and take chunks out of you! A very vivid memory from our trip in 1970 travelling with 4 kids across Canada from NF to Vancouver in VW camper!
Both museums were fascinating.
28:25 - "I'm sending out an SOS"🎶 - Message in a Bottle, The Police.
Frozen root beer, yum!
For some reason, I want to watch a movie called Roots. If you ever get sponsored by a company, I have an idea where you should put the logo. 😉
I have stopped at Gander twice, once in 1976 flying from RAF Lyneham to Belize in a Hercules. Second time was from Brize Norton going to Texas in 1986. 😀
Having a gander at Gander! Great video as always. Keep up the great work, look forward to next week’s instalment.
My thoughts when driving abroad too! " I wish someone else was in front of me so I know I'm on the right side"
Newfoundland even drove on the left until 1947!
I’m from a little community out side of gander. About 45 minutes away. I will say the best place to eat in gander is Rosie’s dinner. If you guys ever go back make sure you check that out! As well as a little fishing community called leading tickles as it’s very old fashion and you get the feeling of what Newfoundland is really all about! Also old town trinity if you go in the summer as they have a lot of history and things to engage in.
Gander airport was enlarged and improved about 1950 as a refueling stop for transatlantic flights. Stopped there between London and Bermuda and also at Goose Bay, Labrador. With the advent of jets in the late '50s, Gander was largely overflown.
BIG THANKS FOR the aircraft museum Steve, I loved it. (Holdiays at gas station they Always charge you more i used to work next to gas station and soon learn on holiday everything suddenly x2 in price)
Scotland has Prestwick....similar reasoning..interesting vlog Thanks
Stopped there many times in the early 80s to refuel on the way to the Saint Lucia in the Caribbean normally in February ,freezing cold and heavy snow, no airbridges or buses, wrap your self in blanket to keep warm, then 4 hours later arrive in Saint Lucia 32c,happy days.
You create magical content from faraway places and reveal the hidden magic in well known areas. Thanks, Steve and Alicja.👏👏💫💫
The S.O.S. made my day, thanks!
I was scanning the comments for this!
Lots of information that I knew nothing of…thanks guys!
Brought back happy memories from early 70s when I lived there.
you take us to some fascinating and fantastic places, thanks
Another fab video
Stunning scenery again and the airport is amazing
A visit well worth the drive. That airport lounge was stunning…like a time capsule. I was so impressed by all the exhibits. While I haven’t had the opportunity to see “Come From Away”, one of the songs in my repertoire is “I am here”, a very poignant song about a mother trying to call her son who’s a firefighter at NYC Rescue 2. What a fantastic side trip. To both you and Alicja, cheers, and ATB!
Never heard of Gander before, thankyou for the road trip, roll on Tuesday 10.00 am ❤see ya on the next one👍🇨🇦
The frustrating thing for me watching this (especially as an aviation enthusiast!) is that we drove from St. John's to Gander, but didn't visit the airport!! We just didn't realise there was so much there to see!
But what a nice surprise to see that you spent the night at the same place that we did!! I recall we spent the evening sitting outside reception, enjoying not only the bottle of vodka we'd bought at Heathrow, but also the incredible night sky...we'd never seen so many stars! 🌟⭐️🌟 The next morning, we also drove up to Twillingate. 😊
Isn't it incredible how much more clearly you can see the stars when there's very little light pollution! Terra Nova National Park, not far from Gander, was designated as a "Dark Sky Preserve" by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in February of 2018.
@@carolmurphy7572 It truly was an incredible sight! We were excited at the time to try and capture what we were seeing on my video camera, but as I'm sure you can imagine, the results were dreadful, to say the least (and I'm sure the vodka didn't help either)! 😆
Poutine is one of my favourite foods, every time I'm in the country it's one of the first things I hunt down!
If you're a fan of airports, there is a pub at Manchester Airport with a beer garden right on the end of the runway, great place to have a pint as you watch an A380 take off or land at close range
My youngest son and his family vacationed in Canada last month. The best poutine they found was a food truck.
This takes me back to stopping off twice on Freddie Laker airlines in the 90's only saw the international lounge as in transit. Like a place lost in time wonderful memories
😢Bangor, Maine seemed to be a more frequent refuelling stop than Gander. The first generation of Laker DC10s could make it nonstop with lighter loads- you hoped that whoever was doing the maths knew their stuff. Laker went bust in 1982, sadly - he made a brief effort to come back but it didn’t work out.
@@meriden53 I flew in the mid 90s to Florida on a DC 10
I was on the other side of the continent on that fateful day, working on a fire fighting Bell 205 , we were grounded for a few hours that morning and back up flying bucket drops on a fire in Oregon. We were one of only 3 civilian aircraft flying in the Pacific Northwest that afternoon. I was in constant contact with Seattle Center which was flight following us since they had no commercial aircraft to contact. The other aircraft flying were a medical helicopter and an air tanker retardant bomber. There was plenty of F-16 and F-15 s in the air that day
Really enjoyed this one, you are a couple of wanderers, which resonates with me. The way you like to go down streets/alleys/paths etc just to see what is there. Amazing what you can find. Loved all the aircraft stuff, and the history on the kindness of the folks around there. Thanks a lot you two for sharing this with us.
We effectively have the gander airport equivalent here in Scotland, Prestwick is a similar airport with a similar history, you could include this in a video if you ever do the Ayrshire coastal path in a video like the Angus and Fife ones you did.
I was just thinking that it reminded me of Prestwick - the Brigadoon of Scottish airports!
Yes, I agree, it reminds me of Prestwick too. I live in Ayr but our family business is a stones-throw from Prestwick airport. Fab airport always got something going on. Red Arrows just the other day.
Gander is one of the most famous and well liked airports in the world from back in the day in the 1970s and 1980s. It’s a bit like Keflavik airport in Iceland. Thank you for featuring it on your channel.❤
A wee goosy round Gander
A bit like Prestwick 😅
Great video! 911 was very hard to remember but the folks in Gander were amazing. Canada looks a lot like Finland. Although we had +27 in May. Finland has 74% of forests. Looking forward to the next one!
Gander's 100% on my bucket list.. this place looks amazing 😃
I flew into Gander on Friday 13th December 1974. Crossing the Atlantic in an RAF Comet. UK to the Azores, Azores to Gander, Gander to Washington DC.. What a trip! Next day Washington to New York, New York to Toronto, Toronto to Calgary, Then a bus trip to Suffield Alberta. Jet lagged for a week. Thanks for reminding me. Would I do it all again, in a heart beat.
And do you remember that in RAF aircraft, all the seats faced backwards! The Comets were particularly cramped leg room seats…
@@paulturner9765 Only in the VC10.
@@paulturner9765 The RCAF Yukon (Canadair licensed Brittania) also had backward seats.
Yes Gander was the test site for the Concorde because it had the longest runway in the world.
It was also an alternative for emergency landings by the space shuttle
We went to Gander airport at the beginning of August. I spent ages looking for your message and couldn’t find it😢. Great videos
Ahhh sorry! Maybe they replace them!
I could have watched the Dakota cockpit simulator for hours 😁
Thank you for coming to our amazing town! You are an amazing storyteller! Have a safe travel and watch for the moose.
Fantastic video, thank you to the both of you. Its a place that I would never think of visiting. But as always love any video you make.
Go to gander to have a gander!! You know what I'm talking about love to you both in montrose from aberdeen.xx
Thinking the same.lol
@@RichardFelstead1949 how are you Belstead.?
Steve, I just love the videos you make by yourself
I wish I was in Gander. It’s the northern boreal forest which makes it so nice.❤😊
YES the dc 3 cockpit made my DAY...THANKS
I highly recommend the book " The Day The World Came to Town" by Jim Defede. Thanks for another terrific video!
Have you thought about going to L'Anse aux Meadows, which is where the Vikings had a settlement in Newfoundland?
Brought back a few memories for me. As a student I went to visit my Aunt in Nova Scotia for the summer of 1964 and I got a student flight from Prestwick to Toronto but because of lack of numbers we were consolidated on the charter flight going to New York Idlewilde stopping at Gander to refuel. We had to deplane while they refueled as it was aviation petrol (Gasolene) but we couldn't go anywhere as we would have had to clear Customs and Immigration, so we had to stay on the apron beside our Super Constellation, which was a cargo plane equipped for taking passengers with steel frame canvas stacking seats that clipped to the floor of the cargo area. Gander just appeared to be a vast area of tarmac with planes taking off in all sorts of directions. Parts of your film reminded me of a song by the group, the Arrogant Worms, about Canada "We have "Trees and Rocks, and Rocks and Trees and Trees and Rocks and WATER". Sums up most of Canada and beautiful but the forest is easy to get lost and disorientated in.
Thanks so much for this!
Great video dears! Canada seems very big! Gander airpoet looked fascinating! I loved the seats down the ages display! Thanks guys! Safe travels. 🙋👍🙂
That was really cool, thank you for sharing that with us all, a real insight in to what Gander is like, that was fascinating, especially for me as i am an aviation geek lol 👍🇨🇦✈️
I still need to get to Gander, and the Viking site. Thanks for the great video, Steve.
Brilliant idea, visiting Gander Steve! It was fascinating to see!
I was surprised at you roaming around the Gander bushland. Bears have been sighted there.
Wow awesome video
How was the driving? I'll be driving in Scotland in 2 weeks and as an American, I'm terrified! lol Canada is so gorgeous, I've really been enjoying watching your trip!
Just remember that Scottish country lanes are like your side walks 😅. Just take your time and keep left 😊
@@Papa_Kilo My family in the UK makes fun of me for being nervous since they've driven here plenty of times! Ha ha.
Thanks again for taking us on your travels, really enjoy them.....
Another great vid and place that until watching this, didn't know existed. Great Stuff 😀👍
So many happy memories of Gander Steve, I flew in there for work on the refinery at Come by Chance, landed in a blizzard and ended up staying in a hotel for 3 days with the weather. Thanks so much for bringing it back to me, Newfies are wonderful people 👍
Steve if you want to see Beluga planes, head down here to Chester. AIRBUS at Broughton have their own airstrip, and they land and take off there regularly. I'm sure they would let you know landing times. There are different ones for different loads ie aircraft wings.
Another good one Steve, love Canada.
Oh my god steve!!! Whyyyyy!!!!! I am from the province of Québec and seeing you eat your first poutine in a newfoundland harveys is killing me.
The British military plane outside was a Lockheed Hudson Bomber used to hunt German U- Boats during WWII , it was a lend lease plane from the United States States
once again, Great Vlog , love you guys!
I Love NEWFOUNDLAND💯❤
So glad you had blue skies for your gander 😉 Wonderful adventure, as always! 😁 You two make a great traveling team. 👍🏼👍🏼
I'm a bit surprised that you say root beer is your favourite soda, Steve -- in my experience, people who didn't grow up with it react like Alicja did. XD
A TV show with a small airplane here in the States was called ‘Sky King’. But probably not the one you were thinking of, Steve, because it stopped production in 1962! ✈
Come From Away the musical about Gander, its people and the incredible story of their involvement in 9/11 is currently touring the U.K. throughout 2024 (including Glasgow and Edinburgh if you fancy it Steve!).
Thanks for that info!
You two should have your own tv show, amazing video as always guys, thanks for sharing your travels.
Great video Steve, Gander might have seemed quiet due to the holiday but imagine how busy it must have been when it was a wartime transit base for the RAF Air Ferry Command. Amazing to think that over 10,000 Canadian, British and American military personnel resided there and 0ver 20,000 American and Canadian built fighters and bombers stopped there en route to Europe. 😲.
One of the world's most famous airports? In Newfoundland?! I'd better take a gander at this video!
Newfoundland was not a place I would have considered but the place looks amazing and bigger than I imagined.
...and Canada was closed! But Gander has very many special memories for many people. Interesting tour in the airport. When you were on the woodland walk to the lake I kept wondering if there are grizzly bears around there - but no, only frogs.
Interesting to see that part of the world. It looked a lot like an airport that we had to call at to refuel on a flight from UK to Orlando. It was late October I think and the trees looked similar and some snow around. We had to do a sudden turn-around on approaching the runway, as there was a light aircraft on the runway. Bit scary at the time but all worked out, and we had a good holiday. My daughter was probably about 13 at the time so it must have been about 1988. You have some good comments by various viewers. Looking forward to the next video.
Brilliant as always.
A quick question for Alijcia; is that a bass guitar headstock tattoed on your back( I was a bass player for many years)?
Gander definitely worth a gander
loved it well done you two , the frozen root beer looked amazing
When I was a Pan Am cabin crew member based at JFK, I always hoped for my flights to be diverted to, or to have to refuel at, Gander (or Prestwick). Alas, our trusty 747s, then brand new, never needed to be refueled or diverted on my trips between Europe and JFK, so I have never been to Gander. Thank you for the introduction to it, which I plan on reviewing if I ever get to plan a trip to Gander. Have you made a video about any of the other Maritime Provinces?