Absolutely beautiful 😍 😍 looks like she handles well, and a perfect day for it 😎

Unbelievable, i almost cant hear the engine, just the sound of the wind! It must be real happiness to fly such a beautifull bird! Respect from RF

I am a huge fan of World War 1 aviation, and the closest I will ever get to it is building models, playing video games and doing huge amounts of research. I only discovered last year the amazing work Peter Jackson is doing with his dedicated center for creating perfect flying replicas of these gallant old birds. I can only thank him from afar, and thank you for dedicating your life and your resources to collecting and flying these machines with your 'Kermie Cams', so the rest of us can get at least a little taste of what it's like to sit in the cockpit. Wonderful pair of videos.

Nothing like a model airplane big enough to get in and fly. Great. Thanks, Paul V Bangkok

Pure flight. However, it doesn't take long to understand that a pilot's life was very short in WWI. Very brave men to say the least.

What a beautiful plane. I really like the Albatros clean lines and then the engine sticks out, showing the technical aspect and workmanship. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Kermit for the work you do to bring us these very interesting videos of all the eras of flight! I am very enthusiastic about flight and have been my entire life! I fly radio control models and recently set a goal to learn to fly full scale mostly because of your encouraging attitude and videos. Wish I had found your inspirational videos sooner! A follower of yours- Chris

As kids we would often go down there to the Hood Aerodrome in Masterton to check out some of the Aircraft & play in that river bed. Through my dad & friends got to fly in a Tiger Moth, a Glider, a Sikorsky S55, a Bell Jet Ranger & various other aircraft. Also remember sitting in the Harvard & the De Davilland Dominie. Also remember a pilot by the name of Harley who use to fly a DC3 top dresser.

15:52 what a beautiful day, and another bird warming up for flight in the background.. great stuff.

That was cool! Thanks for posting it.

Im still waiting for the kermiecam video of the spitfire. With the walkarround and all.. Dieing for it. This is great too!

Fantastic Kermie Cam! More, please......

Great ***Kermie***

Looking forward to visiting Fantasy of Flight soon. The Mrs. and me are heading down from Ohio last week of June. I have a dream to be part of a vision like Kermits. Right now I'm a Robotics Technician who repairs what seems like everything in Honda Marysville. But my heart belongs around Aviation. Great Vids Kermit !

@AmesiesCorner

9 жыл бұрын

topfuelfan Fantasy of Flight is closed.

@DRsBBQ

9 жыл бұрын

Amesie's Corner Opens June 19th as a scaled down museum. www.fantasyofflight.com/about-us/press-room/press-releases/fantasy-of-flight-open-scaled-down-museum/

@topfuelfan

9 жыл бұрын

I'll be stopping by the weekend of June 27 just for fun. Im ready to move to FL permantly and start a new life. Ohio is too dark, cloudy, cold and gloomy 6 months of the year. Looking forward to some fun in Fla. !

8 years ago already. One day Kermit will be just to old to fly and then, sadly, he'll pass on. But the legacy he'll leave behind with all his videos and the aircraft hes restored will go on and on

Nice video, thanks a lot!

good video

awesome!

what a throaty sound!

Thanks for the video just discovered your channel and love it. Why don't the older engines have valve covers? Is that why you see all the pilots in WW1 movies with oil all over their face?

so awesome

Amazing! :-)

wait a minute.. is that a drag strip down there? coooooool place!

My 15 yr old is ready to solo in August! His first three flights were aerobatic inspired by you. We love the static museums but it is far more informative, educational, and nostalgic to see these aircraft through the Kermie Cam. Please update everyone on the HH Sikorsky. Is Howard giving you any guidance on the restoration?

I know it's nearly two years later now but leaning out the fuel mixture will bring up the engine temperature, you should know that one Kermit.

@dougscott8161

5 жыл бұрын

NZ Salt Flats Racer, from the conversation Kermit was having after he landed, I think there is no miture control accessible to the pilot during flight.

This plane is better than the camel. I wouldn't want all that caster oil on me!

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

Different engines in the two planes, Camel had an air-cooled rotary, of nine cylinders, of about 110 hp. Albatros had an inline six, of about 160 hp, that was, as you saw, water cooled, Made by Mercedes. German engineering; need I say more ; )

Baron Von Kermithoffen

@davidblurton7158

5 жыл бұрын

the beige baron,,,,,

I see a DR-1 in the back ground......Love the DR-1. When will you take that beauty up??? Love your vids.....like the tech side...what it takes to fly the beasts/honies...call it what you will.

@terrabun

9 жыл бұрын

tundrahog Yeah spotted that and got excited as well :) Beautiful aircraft, the both of them.

it's lacking the machine guns buttons in the control column. :P

@m0ther_bra1ned12

8 жыл бұрын

Gee I wonder why... ooh a fat juicy Cessna... ;-)

Is that a R.E . 8 in the back ground with the engine running ?

i was on this ride

Beautiful plane even if a bit quirky instruments!

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing all aircraft instruments, 100 years ago, were "quirky". :D

@RWBHere

5 жыл бұрын

@@ronschlorff7089 The _aircraft_ were quirky, and so were the aviators.

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

@@RWBHere Right, and so brave, with only cloth between them and bullets; but of course, the Albatros DII had a thin plywood skin,.... for that extra added protection against machine-gun fire!! :)

@ronschlorff7089

4 жыл бұрын

@George Rusch I guess if the lead bits just missed you, and you only got some wood splinters in you, that would make you pretty "excited",... and grateful,... at least for that particular "dawn patrol"!! ;D

Engine is Merc D.III?

no wonder ordinary soldiers were able to shot those planes down with their rifles...so it was not wise to fly slow and low over enemy trenches.

@Kneedragon1962

8 жыл бұрын

+urmo345 Soldiers of all sides shot at aeroplanes, any time they came within (wish) range, but although some of the troops were quite good shots against a stationary or slow target, very few of them understood deflection, or just how much you need to lead a moving target. For about every thousand rounds shot at an aeroplane, about one hit it, and usually near the back. Some holes appeared in the wings, but an awful lot more in the tailplane. A few were shot down by gunners on the ground, but it was very few. [Laugh] One very prominent exception, (most likely, we are not sure) was Manfred Von Richthofen. Several people claim the kill of the Red Barron, but one of the more likely ones was an Australian .303 ground machine gun post. The shot that killed him was a .303, and the angle was most consistent with that ground MG post. (And the man at the gun was a trained marksman, a full time gunner. And I am a patriotic Australian... LOL.) The argument about this has been going on now, for very nearly a hundred years...

@Kneedragon1962

5 жыл бұрын

Ron, it is distinctly possible Roy Brown was the man who ended the Red Spree. Problem is, you're flying a bright red DR1 at 50 ft over thousands of armed men, who all know one & only one man flies a bright red DR1... Everybody is going to be shooting at you. If (or when ) one of those thousands of .303 round hits you, it's going to be a bit hard to work out who fired it. So then you do things like work out where entry & exit wounds were, and try to figure the path of the bullet. That runs into the problem that a WW1 airman did not sit still at the controls, he'd be turning and moving and looking this way and that, the one position he'd hardly ever be in, would be sitting straight with his head at the sights. Then you get the argument about what the plane was doing at the time. Many many sources agree you could pick the moment when he was hit, but almost all of them disagree what the position & orientation of the aircraft was in the 2 second leading up to that....

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

@@Kneedragon1962 Hence the "argument", Aussi or Canuck!!! You take yours, I'll take mine : ) At least it was not a Brit or Frog, eh? Or worse yet, a Yank!!!

Always wondered how the machine gun synchronizers worked on these planes...

@13aceofspades13

8 жыл бұрын

basically its a gear driven by the engine which mechanically actuates some means of firing the machine gun, when the pilot "Squeezes the trigger." it basically closes the link between the synchronzer and the guns, and the synchronizer fires the gun or guns at a precise point when the propeller clears the barrels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_gear The common missconception is that it interrupts fire, it does not, basically when the pilot pulls the trigger, the engine fires the guns at precisely the right time.

@rodparsons521

6 жыл бұрын

The method based on Schneider's work ran off the oil pump drive using a system of cams and pushrods to fire the guns. I don't know if the method fitted to the Albatross machines differed in any way. As aceof spades13 wrote, the linkage is actuated when the pilot pulls and holds the trigger, interrupts the action when the trigger is released..

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

@@13aceofspades13 nice succinct explanation, thanks!!

@RWBHere

5 жыл бұрын

Some of the early aircraft, such as the Bristol Scout, had no synchronisation, and were actually designed without any thought of having guns fitted, since they were envisioned as spotter platforms. Many of the guns in early WW1 aeroplanes were fitted by the pilots or their mechanics. The pilot would wrap tape or leather around the prop blades, as a token gesture towards avoiding wood splinters in the face, and hope for the best. Others angled machine guns slightly away from the prop, and others fitted the gun on top of the upper wing, hoping to fire above the propeller. It took some designers a while to think of synchronisation, so some guns were fired from the centre of the prop, and others had a pusher propeller, with the navigator firing a front-mounted gun. (The Royal Flying Corps had a ban on monoplanes and also insisted on using two-man aircraft designs, for a while.) Yet others had the gun behind the pilot, aimed and fired by the navigator - or even by the pilot, who had to twist around to operate it whilst trying to fly the aircraft.

i wonder if pilot smell the exhausting gas during the flight ? 😰

sweat..

@RWBHere

5 жыл бұрын

Wear something cooler then! 😁

it's Oswald Boelche's birthday. (5-19)

@ronschlorff7089

5 жыл бұрын

the Red Baron's teacher!

how much does this plane cost?