I have been an A&P IA and pilot for well over 37 years now and by watching your IA take the tester from you and smell the 100LL I can honestly say I am not the only one who likes the smell of AVGAS

Fantastic!....you should have heard my, "Ahhhhhh" when the video ended just as you were taxiing! You should be a teacher Kermie, your discussion of the wing slats was excellent. I honestly think that your video's are historically significant! No one but you has ever really filmed/videoed the in's and out's of these vintage aircraft! Your left to right checks of all the systems is invaluable. Some guy's are just meant to fly, and you are one of them!

What a wonderful life. Thanks for sharing. Im one flight out of my discovery and so excited to get into my own plane.

Hello. I am child but I still under stand aviation. Great video!

Love you Kermit......got to see you in 2008 flying the Storch.....shook your hand....amazing display of flying....God Bless... fair winds and fine flying my friend!

Kermit, your passion for flying is a delight to behold and you are living the fantasy of my life!

Thank you for another well done informative Kermie Cam. I love your way to show us the bits and pieces of your planes. Even to know the quirks and shortcomings of engineering are very interesting. Not like a car where you just hop in and drive away, planes need a lot more caring and maintenance to work well. Thanks again for your effort to present a unique plane. BTW the only videos on par with your Kermie.Cams are your Mechanic‘s Corner restoration videos, especially the Bf-108 ones by Paul. I love those in depth insights. Keep them coming. A very big 👍 !

Love seeing warbirds with correct flat paint. I'm sure the glossy paint is easier to clean but the flat paint just looks right.

@aryankabir4167

2 жыл бұрын

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@gunnerjaxen5651

2 жыл бұрын

@Aryan Kabir instablaster =)

@aryankabir4167

2 жыл бұрын

@Gunner Jaxen thanks so much for your reply. I found the site thru google and im in the hacking process now. Takes a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@aryankabir4167

2 жыл бұрын

@Gunner Jaxen it worked and I actually got access to my account again. Im so happy! Thank you so much you really help me out :D

@gunnerjaxen5651

2 жыл бұрын

@Aryan Kabir You are welcome :)

I laughed at the Kermie Tug Cam. You should absolutely do a Kermie Tug Cam, complete with tug background, walk around, start up, operation, and post-tug for April Fool's Day.

You just gave me a great movie to watch, thanks for the Waldo Pepper-hint. Love yer Stinson!

The hard work that you put into these aircraft to tell the history of aviation is amazing. I wish for nothing but success for act three. Your videos are amazing keep up the great work

Excellent film footage and sound. Great commentary.

Another incredible experience, as we have selfishly become accustomed to. Thank you again Mr. Weeks! I hope to bring my 2 year old son to your collection, we love watching your videos together.

thanks for another great Kermie cam, always entertaining & informative !

As usual another great video. Thank you.

Excelente vídeo!

Always love to ride along with Kermit ! Thank You.

Kermit. My son and I have been enjoying your videos for a couple years. My dad was a retired USAF Col and I flew on a few flights with him on the Bonanza he liked to rent. Before Vietnam, he flew the C-133 all across the Pacific. One storm, he recalled, a Typhoon, was so heavy that he and his co pilot would take turns flying the instruments ( trying to get to Okinawa) with their foreheads pressed against the panel so their eyes would vibrate in sequence with the instruments. Harrowing. The Cargomaster C 133 was the biggest plane in the world then. Then he went to fly SAR in SE Asia '67-'71. He passed a few years ago. We love the content and care you take in presenting this aviation history. ~ I've been dabbling with a PPL and my son, who is high functioning autistic, well he lights up around anything aviation. I don't know if you ever fly into Fairhope AL, but if so, let me know. We'll take you to lunch by the bay. Tom

@KermitWeeks444

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your Dad's story. Sorry for your loss. RIP, and thanks for his service. And thanks to you and your son for watching, and support. Appreciate it.

@coastalbbq1

4 жыл бұрын

@@KermitWeeks444 In an earlier video, you in Owatonna. My dad knew Buzz Kaplan and arranged a trip with him to Greenland. The P 38 under the ice. Buzz, Dad, and Tony S. flew there in the late '80s in Buzz's Caravan on amphib floats. Our families knew each other for several hundred years, back to Europe. Same village. They all immigrated to MN and settled Owatonna in the 1860's. Quite a story. Buzz needed some int'l air clearances and called dad, who was still active duty then with a lot of pull. So Buzz offered dad a seat. I only met Buzz a few times. Being an AF brat, we lived everywhere. By the time mom and dad moved home to MN, I was at GA TECH. I was sad to hear about his passing. As I understood, I think he had a heart attack or stroke flying his Kolb. He recovered the aircraft to make a rough crash landing .--- his passenger survived. I doubt Buzz would have enjoyed hospital time.

Thanks as always for sharing Kermit. I love the sound of the starter on this bird. :)

Your Videos are always informative and fascinating. People don't realize there is more to flying than jumping in and pulling back on the stick. Well done you!

Thanks Kermit for taking the time to video these flights, most of us would never have a chance to fly these classics. Can't wait for part 2.!!

Love the Kermie Cam! Such a cool perspective!

What a great video. Love the passion you have for these planes and the information you have in these videos.

Im in my second month of aviation maintance school and love it! This is really informative to me.

these videos are priceless

GREAT video good sir! I can't wait to come down and see your AMAZING facility. As an Aircraft Mechanic, I love seeing these ol' bird's. Let me know if you ever need help! 👍👍

great video to watch

Thanks again ,great information on old stuff

Great job! Hope to visit the museum some day

Great video thanks for sharing.

Love your Video's...Keep them coming. Hope for the best with that Cat 5 hurricane heading your way!

Great interesting video thanks Kermit

Awesome as always..

Thanks for the video always enjoy !

Awesome 😎

Fantastic, Your description of how the slats operate was very interesting - now I know :-)

Ohh I see a Spitfire hiding in the background ;)

Very thorough, thank you.

Good one KW

The 2nd time you flew this aircraft, myself and my Dad were up with Waldo and you flew around with us a bit. Got some awesome pictures!

I love your Kermie Cam series! Watched them all...I think. I would LOVE to see you do one on that gorgeous Staggerwing you have in the hanger...

You need a couple of "Do not exceed" pair of lines on the hood of that tug!

Another great video deal Kermit!

I see a staggerwing there in the background!!! We need a walk around on that baby!!!

My Stinson 1/5 rc nitro plane is my favorite to fly. Absolutely the most stable plane of mine. I'm sure the full size is just as much so.

Love the video's Mr. Weeks. I love looking at that Stinson too. A VERY nice Airplane.... Tell Jack he needs to sneak his Cessna in the background of one of these vids.....lol

@ Kermit Weeks, love your vids from here in the UK, but more importantly I liked the inspired words you have said, Im 60 and since having played with control line planes and glider kits as a kid always dreamt of flying, but knew it was out of my reach as a 'wealthy' mans passtime, well, in Jan this year I started flexwing trike training, I now have a small 1 seater zero hours trike and I am close to going solo ! it may not be swanky posh flying but its flying none the less, thanks my man .... follow your dreams and passions in life, you helped inspire me and I love your passion for aviation and the multi use of the word 'Deal'. keep well.

@KermitWeeks444

4 жыл бұрын

I love flying my Ultralight as much as flying my P-51! Enjoy your new hobby, and always remember - We all fly in our Dreams!

Great video!!

Esses caras São De Mais!! PARABÉNS!!

I'm SO grateful for the window into your world Mr. Weeks! I was fortunate enough to tour your Fantasy of Flight museum in 2003! #Viewer Request! If you ever get down to Kissimmee, FL, could you check out my old 1961 C172 & see what happened to her? It just came off the Federal Registry, don't know if it was scrapped or just lost it's airworthiness cert. N8104X I always regretted selling it in the early 80's (young family & all) & still miss her.

I believe I flew in one of these in a plane ride I did out of Culpepper Regional up here in Virginia. It had a flat/opposed 4 cylinder engine though, probably a Lycoming O-360.

great video

Again very interesting, the airplane is more complex than it looks

The little deal goes into the deal. Got it! (Just teasing, Kermit. Love these!!! ;) )

I have to say, I'm really loving that airplane! I like a lot of planes, but this one, I love. Weird, huh?

That Stinson is such a great looking aircraft.

enjoyed it , thank you

Everything seems so... well... basic...basically anyway;) Thanks for the vid!

way cool this was on par with your 3 part p51 vidios

Very nice video and ignition leads are " finger tight and a quarter turn more ".

good video

This is such a cute plane. If I could fly this would be my plane

I've always enjoyed the special 'look' to an observation aircraft. To do a special job of loitering above a ground subject, to get in and out of the smallest landing spot, and to confuse the fighter that wants to shoot it down. Grasshoppers, Lysanders and Storches. Flying in reverse in high winds and deemed obsolete with the coming of helicopters. Love 'em all

I like the Stenson there's one out here in Mount Dora

Nice thorough briefing on the machine, making it clear what a complicated monster it is, (And how much ithe restoration deserved the awards.) It clearly was an enormous, extraordinarily expensive way of doing the same job as the L-4, (J-3 Cub). It would probably take twice as much training as an L-4 pilot's to turn out a competent L-1 driver. Field maintenance would be another issue. History becomes much easier to appreciate when you can see the artifacts at work.

"SW Florida in the summertime...". Looks at cloud bank. I have to bike to work in 3 hours. Have biked through too many sudden thunderstorms that came out of nothing. You know it's on you when you smell ozone. Nice video, as always.

@gullreefclub

4 жыл бұрын

When I was a little kid and my family went to visit relatives in Florida it totally freaked me out how it could be raining puppies and kittens on one side of a street and be sunny and dry on the other side of the street. Many years later when I first traveled to Phoenix for the first time it freaked me out that on the 15 story of a building it could be raining extremely hard at the 10 story it would be drizzling and on the street the only indication of inclement weather would be the look of the sky.

As always , fantastic review and a fantastic aeroplane. Did you ever review or fly a Lysander ?

wow , love how the windows are on that plane

Thank you so much for sharing, can you please do the spite fire that's in the back ground. Thanks again

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

Great video guys , interesting story about these engines , so oil stays in all these radial engines then ? Except those that are not level

When I was in the Army, we took a bunch of missile-heads from Fort S(w)ill, to the White Sands Missile Range. (I was in the Chinook unit, at Fort Sill.) The "tower" for the missile range, (It was a conex hut) had an altimeter, sitting on the desk. The tower operator would adjust the alt to the airfield altitude, and use THAT figure to tell incoming pilots the correct setting. Later on, I "found" a decent altimeter, and put it in my old Datsun 240Z, (the clock NEVER worked, and the alt fit in the hole) to "predict" incoming weather. I used the "population and altitude" signs on the roads. Wish I had that car, AND that altimeter. I "lost" the altimeter, in the 94 Northridge earthquake. Still had it, but it did a nose- dive off the mantel. steve

Planes run on avgas we run not on water,but Naked in Jamaica rum. Always advertise Kermit👍😄

FINALLY! Someone talks about lift not being just from Bernoulli's Principle. The air stream on the BOTTOM of the wing, contributes a MAJOR amount of lift! Pitot heat? You DO need that! You could fly into a freezer, and your airspeed (and altimeter) wouldn't work! Seriously, a useless feature for us in Arizona, too.:D steve

Beautiful plane. Hard to say which I like more, Stinson or Storch? Either would make my wish list.

@rolandalfonso6954

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing...

Maybe a reasonable thing would be to put the tail on a stand when the plane is in the hanger. This would keep the engine vertical and the oil will tend to stay in the cylinders and not run back into the intake tubes.

@twickersruss

4 жыл бұрын

To easy to nose over and do damage . but a stand under the nose would prevent that. A nose wheel is unacceptable LOL

This was wonderful. ...an education in flight, and airplanes...(I dunno, but somebody sounds like they are a degreed Aeronautical Engineer...who also has the teaching skilz to explain that stuff to me...lift-vectors and all that...)

Cool, thanks for the vid awesome as always. Are you going to be going a Kermie cam on that spitfire over there?

When are you going to take that beautiful spitfire up? Any chance of a kermie cam when you do?

on a mechincal injected and even carbureted race motor but more so with injection they will backup the motor to expel any amount of fuel that has run into a cylinder but I see with the intake tubes curving up and away on a radial I never heard till now about that But my question is why would you not still back up the motor instead of pulling it through in the running direction or do you feel a hydraulic lock because you are doing by hand . love this channel always learn something Thanks Kermit for doing this

I enjoy your videos and your " lectures" . I do wish you would identify the engines in each plane- -- Don't need the dash number just wright r3350 would be fine -- thanks

after watching your video about the problems with radials i wonder why they didn't put valve lifters in for start up i know some cars had and the early trucks did in that time period

7:47 in our gliding club with very tight parking spaces, tape marks, like stage actors use, have proven to work better.. a lot less easily misplaced.

I just did a 100hr I inspectionon a Stinson Gullwing

I bet the military maintenance guys back in the day had choice words about dealing with oil in the intake. The rush to war allowed these kind of oversights to crop up.

11:42 My late father showed/taught me to look at the fuel on the tarmac. You can instantly see water globules lying there.

You seem like you would be a very cool dude to hang out with.

@KermitWeeks444

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Correct me if I'm wrong but dont the slats also contribute to a higher stall angle by keeping the flow connected to the top side of the wing? Great video as usual.

he should mention not on taildragger planes as the early helicopters as the radial engine is canted at an angle more so its shaft connects to the main and tail rotor transmissions if the oil collects in the intake tubes. that being your two Sikorsky S-55 Chickasaws the P&W R-1340. as also the S-58 choctaw with the Wright R-1820. its hard to pull them through in the helicopters as the bottom plugs have to be removed and you possibly have to motor the engine over a few times with the starter. its the orientation of how the engines are placed in the S-55 and S-58.

Hi Kermit. Great video as usual. I see the Spitfire l spied in your "fill in" video is actually a Mark XVI tear drop, clipped wing, with a Packhard Merlin ? and appears to be airworthy? I would love to see that beauty in the air. I think you should retitle your video's "Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory" starring Kermit Weeks. Thanks

Do you give your mechanics free rides for doing such a good job?

Did The Lycoming Company provide a procedure for the oil drainage?

It is all about the center of lift...

Cooler than cool.

Would you have the same problem if you parked it with the tail up, plane level?

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Does the Tug have a radial engine? :D

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Bending the Tow Bar Ha, Ha!!!! Was towing my little off Road car behind the Jeep. Making a left turn I can see in my right mirror that some bone head is trying to pass my on the right on the outside of my turn...Seems the tow bar bent and it slid to one side and the Baja just swung out around the outside of us on the chains like it was nobody else's business. Not sure who the bone head was, no one was driving the baja....

@jerrytee2688

4 жыл бұрын

Wow.

How many planes do you have