I can't cease to be amazed by the design of these WWII war birds. It's insane to think that between the Brothers Wright's first flight and this machine there are only 35 years...

Kermit; I am a 74 year Old USAF Veteran of Vietnam; I would give one of my GRANDSONS to come visit you in Florida my Friend!!

Kermie.....you're a island of groovy in a world gone mad.

Oh man! This is exiting!! Thanks for keeping those great birds alive, Kermit!!

Uhg! Just waiting for part 3 now... It's like waiting for am episode of your favorite show. Each part better than the last.

Best vintage aircraft appraisals here,such knowledge and a real feel for everything Kermit flies,love the detailed explanations of all the controls and through check lists,a living legend,roll on part 3 !

Love the video and your full explanation of the P-40 Kermit. I'll wait patiently for #3 lol

Hi Kermit, Thanks a bunch for uploading these videos. I have always had a fascination with older aircraft and warbirds. It's so great to get to hear and see them along with some excellent narration and information. Keep them coming!

Thank you for the tour & great stories. Love every minute of your videos. God Bless.

Very incredible for a P40 and a sweet plane .Awesome information and the way you explain different thing's what they are used for too..Thank you for your videos too I do greatly appreciate it too..

love that you found how to pipe your headset through the go pro for audio, makes it even better. Love your videos. Thank you!

Awesome! I can't wait for part 3

I love these videos. Just discovered them a couple of months ago. Really gives me perspective on the WW2 aircraft I love, but can't fly.

I love old planes! Thanks for this!!!

Outstanding videos, thanks so much for sharing!

Can't wait for #3!

I love your videos, you share so kindly your full experience Nice fella, Kermie !

This is so damn cool to watch!

Please don't forget Part 3! Been waiting all week for my Weeks ;)

Always a pleasure to watch these videos. Seems to be a lot of work to do until the bird is up in the sky.

Thank you Kermit!

The sound in this video is amazing! A dream to fly an old bird since I was a little Fella!

Great aeroplane..love the videos

Awesome cockpit check.

Appreciate him sharing this. Wish he had a P- 47 to fly .

@AirGuitar

5 жыл бұрын

oh that would be awesome! A Sea Fury would be amazing as well.

@davelewandoski4292

3 жыл бұрын

you and me both. Love to see a Kermie Cam on a Thunderbolt.

Woohoo! Good fire! I've seen some "not so good" engine starts, where it doesn't fire off on the first try. Great video!

I've watched this guy for years, great videos. great idea using a second pro for audio works great keep the awesome going Kermit. Would love to shake your hand one day but Adelaide's a bit far.

The end of part 2 in your flight series waiting for part 3 are possibly the saddest days of my life...

Great audio ! Your production has really improved.

Love how you get the unmuffled music of the engine along with the voice intercom. Your annotations are also a nice touch, although the black background blocks the beautiful cockpit view while they are up. I know you are doing it to enhance visibility of the words, but i think id rather decipher words than lose the view, even it is only for a brief second. Love these POV vids. I get almost as excited as if I were actually riding along. (Off topic, I also enjoyed your piano playing and the story behind it. Please do more "general interest" vids like that. Seems like you are a great story teller...Thanks for all)

@cmans79tr7

7 жыл бұрын

Oh, and BTW, pleas do that piano justice and get it tuned. Even with my tin ear I can hear the dissonance.

Love the video's, you have my utmost respect for all the work you're doing to preserve aviation history. Just curios, I never hear you make radio call when you're flying?

My favorite part of all these videos: "Okay, here we go!"

I don't understand how you can fly so many different kinds of airplane and remember the right procedures for all of them. Sure, every airplane has some basic instruments and controls, but every airplane also has important differences, or controls that are on the left in one airplane and the right in another, or work in opposite directions... and there are so many knobs and switches.... seems like the more airplanes you fly, the more confusing it would get. I'm really in awe.

Congratulations on that belly landing! Great story, you were lucky! (or not lucky, just a very good, highly experienced pilot!)

Next please :D i love video man !

Imagine your unit transitioning from P-40's to P-51's or P-47's. Totally different aircraft with controls in different positions and different startup procedures.

good video

This man is as important as the aircraft flying different aircraft next generation of old war bird flyers need this knowledge to continue and be safe. Wot a man. Love England wish we had u here with your beautiful old girls.

Thank you.

Kermit, you mentioned that you installed something on the right lower floor right before telling your story about hydraulic loss & belly landing. What was it that you pointed to & installed? I love love love that engine lope at idle! Great video, thanks!

OHHHHHHHH, a cliffhanger. nice touch.

ААААААА это что то. Ощущения супер. Звук и вид от первого лица впечатляют. Поехали ))))

Great video, Your a truly brilliant Pilot, How much time do you spend preflight, going through all the different things and flight characteristics from plane to plane. I would like to see how you prepare for a planes first flight or one that you haven't flown in a while.

It sounds like a Colonial Viper getting ready to start up.

You've posted several videos since this one, but none are part 3 of this one...looking forward to part 3 being posted...

Hmm what will I fly today, my P 40 or my P 51. Maybe I’ll take my Storche. Thanks for giving us all a looksee. I’ll keep flying my little Jabiru and be very happy anyway. Kermie cam rocks.

Have you considered collaborating with flight chops? You guys both make outstanding videos. I would love to see you guys fly together.

@scarcatch

7 жыл бұрын

shannon dowdell Well would be cool, but the videos kermit and and the one flight chopps makes do have a different atitude/approach, the dont fit each other

Captain "Wild Bill" Kelso approves this video.

How does the Allison engine compare with the Packard Merlin? Are they pretty comparable at sea level. I was always under the impression that the Allison wasn't as well supercharged as the Merlin so performance dropped off as altitude increased. Today with better superchargers out there is there a way to bring that performance up?

P 40's are the best!!!!

I always wondered if you've flown one of those, while taxiing. How would you see out the front especially in a P-51, now I know you zig zag lol

So I wonder where the bellyed 40 is now?, was it saved and rebuilt? or was it too far gone and scrapped?

Any possibility of a Tempest V update soon?

Is the engine not running stable at idle ? or is it just spitting a bit ?

Great videos, i love it. What airfield is this?

@KermitWeeks444

Жыл бұрын

It’s Fantasy of Flight, my aviation attraction and facility in Polk City, Florida.

come on release part 3 please

It makes me wonder.... how did the Flying Tigers fly and maintain a squad in a foreign country with what they had? Good god!

Stupid question: Do the gauges have to be taken out periodically and run through a NIST metrology lab? Is there a schedule?

@mkosmo

7 жыл бұрын

I've never known anybody to send any senders or gauges to NIST. When gauges begin to apparently fail, whatever is faulty gets repaired or replaced. Tachs get checked if you ever do a dynamic prop balance, but that's because they have to know the actual speed of the prop.

How many of these 160 are in flying condition?

At the toggle switch marked 'pilot heater', the lower position reads 'oil dilution', why would you switch to this position..?

@sledawgpilot

7 жыл бұрын

f marz Oil dilution is a system to add fuel to oil to make it thinner for cold weather starting. The fuel evaporates after the engine warms up

No way, Kermit! Really!?! Ha ha..

Who in the world could give this a down thumb????????

@killerta87

7 жыл бұрын

Doug White I know right, dude makes amazing videos. Showing people things they could never do......at least I'll never be able to do

@Livedracersteve

7 жыл бұрын

A retired nazi pilot who was shot down by a p-40 lol.... that's who

@leifvejby8023

7 жыл бұрын

Jerries?

@eXX0n

7 жыл бұрын

I cant afford a plane, still gave a thumbs up...

@dougwhite6407

7 жыл бұрын

good point...

How does the P-40 compare to the P-51 when it comes to the amount of right rudder needed on take off?

@KermitWeeks444

7 жыл бұрын

About the same when the tail is coming up, although the four-bladed prop should create a larger polar moment of inertia than a three and effectively need more. As a side note, a Spitfire has composite wooden blades with a Merlin engine and needs almost none!

@mkosmo

7 жыл бұрын

As I recall, the P-40 has a steerable tail-wheel, right? That'd make the tail-down part of the roll pretty easy!

@robertholt2864

7 жыл бұрын

I've heard the Spit was fairly light and the P-51 was a bit of a trick but I wasn't sure about the P-40. Thanks for the answer.

@robertholt2864

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think any of the taildraggers have "steerable" tail wheels. Lockable and unlockable I think is what you mean. Lockable would make it easier to land and takeoff. I'm not a taildragger pilot so somebody correct me if I'm wrong

@ryanmoeller3308

7 жыл бұрын

Sir.. I'm about to start school for my A&P License.. I'd love to come work for you when I graduate!! Thanks for all the video's you put up for us!! :-)

They didn't show any of this in Pearl Harbor!

Is the tachometer sticky on that airplane?

@whalesong999

7 жыл бұрын

No, he's just pointing to the rpm changes during the prop and mag checks.

The systems on these aircraft are soooooo primitive! My Beech G35 Bonanza had an electric prop, too.

Will we ever see a Corsair Kermie Cam?

@chrishrabina163

7 жыл бұрын

He has one being rebuilt in Australia!

I can't find ANY pictures of your belly landing. Can you share those?

How many airplanes do you own?

@KermitWeeks444

6 жыл бұрын

Around 160 vintage aircraft.

KERMIT,, I'm sure you have gotten this question a lot, but I'm new to your channel and haven't seen the answer , so............. what's your favorite iconic plane to fly?

@KermitWeeks444

2 жыл бұрын

I always say, whichever one I’m currently flying. Although, I really like the Howard Hughes Sikorsky S-43 I have.

@Steve_Hayden

2 жыл бұрын

@@KermitWeeks444 With all those fighter planes I was a little surprised by that choice until I found that viddie of you and S. Sikorshy taking about is history. Last question, is the P-51 (my dream plane) as dangerous to fly as they say? (more pilots were killed during training than in combat)

Is the engine cutting out periodically or is it just the audio being fussy?

@Z09SS

7 жыл бұрын

Probably just loping, common on many high performance engines designed to run at a higher rpm range.

@whalesong999

7 жыл бұрын

For the few short sound "cuts" - it's the video. These engines are kept quite rich during ground handling which contributes to the 'loping' of the power pulses. Auto engines use carburation that has been tuned to mild usage at low throttle settings - aircraft carburation doesn't have that refinement as they are meant for higher constant power settings.

How about russian Yak-9? :D

Man, she sounds so good at idle.

Kermit, IMO the Dos Equis guy has nothing on you. Stay thirsty my friend.

i wana see some bigger airplanes flown

@davethevtwinaddict2151

7 жыл бұрын

Wise Wun im talking aboit his vintage lockheed airliner and his b 25

@davethevtwinaddict2151

7 жыл бұрын

Kevin Harberg my favorite one is the p51 that he recently did

I envy the crap our of you..... QB

I won't thumbs down this, but I won't give it a thumbs up either because I HATE SHAKY CAMS!.