You sir, are insanely blessed not to have any damage to the aircraft or buildings! I'm so glad to see that not only are all the aircraft OK, but you're doing well.
I've visited your museum years ago, it was one of the first things to cross my mind when the news gave the track of Irma. I'm SO GLAD you all weathered the storm so well! On behalf of all historical aircraft lovers, thanks so much for all the wonderful videos Mr. Weeks!
Mr. Weeks, thank you for this, and I am so pleased that you have not endured as previously, the torment caused by a major hurricane. Having been to your facility a couple of years back, it is good news. Best regards from England
I've never made it down there so the tour was much appreciated. I'm glad all was well and we could enjoy the tour instead of all being sick over damage. Can you imagine the things he saw sitting on top of that DC-3 during the height of the storm? If only he could talk...
Mr. Weeks, it's good to see your unique collection of airworthy aircraft suffered no irreparable damage. But as much as I've been hooked on aviation all my 68 years, I'm concerned about your dad's piano, which of course can't be replaced.
So very thankful to see this outcome, for what could have been a very devastating storm. Thanks for sharing Kermit. And thankful that my nephew Scott Lee, and all of my Florida family and friend came thru this storm okay...
We had a dust storm at Falcon Field in Mesa a few years ago, with winds topping 60 mph. The DC3 parked nearest the road was blown through the fence out across the four lane road. I'm glad your Birds faired this storm well! Until I can get down for a visit, take care of our ladies!
It is good to see that you are ok after all that, and hope that others were safe as well. Also very glad to see that everything was mostly ok at Fantasy of Flight.
Hi Kermit, we were so worried for your home and museum...and yourself of course, but so happy to see that damage is relatively minor. We've visited Fantasy of Flight three times now. Can't wait for visit number four. Best wishes from Graham & Stephanie in England.
Thank you for sharing, It's really great to hear the damage is minimal. I love your concern for the Connie, and how thankful you were when you saw she was ok. Show's your love of these machines. Thanks again.
MAN! When I saw the thumbnail and figured out you were doing a video right after the hurricane, two words crossed my mind - Connie & PBY! Wow! SOMEBODY'S on your side! How wonderful!
I'm so happy for you and your collection that you have no damage!!! Here in France we haven't hurricane, that why i've prayed for you and all the Americans people on the south east coast!! God Bless you!!!
Kermie makes it through Irmie ! Great news ... Your historical knowledge and airplanes that you collect , rebuild and fly are important to young an old alike . I want to visit Fantasy of Flight one day and bring my nephew . Aviation is an important part of American history . Thank you for all of your work Sir .
I'm very happy for you guys ! It's awesome that Fantasy of Flight came through the storm relatively unscathed. I'm glad your rubber ducky is ok too ! 🤣
Really pleased and releaved that you , your crew and the aircraft at Fantasy of Flight made it for the most part great news , thanks for the video ,stay safe.
Kermie, you guys lucked out and I am so glad. I love coming to Orlando and every time i do, I make the trip out to see the latest and greatest at Fantasy of Flight. Thank all of your employees for securing everything for you. Ron
So glad all was well, hope also all your worker bees and their families are OK too! Enjoyed the behind the scene tour. Firm believer that the state of a persons desk is an indicator of the joy they take in their job. That first office was my kinda place!Bruce
Hello Kermit, just discovered you...WOW Iam just amazed I havent found you sooner. Iam an USAF vet and love aircrafts and flight. So glad to see you survived Big I. I would love to see your place and meet you some day. Thank you for sharing your love and passion with the the world.. As a client of mine once said..."a man can not have to many airplanes"
A year after the fact... I'm glad to see no heavy damage done Kermit. A PBY can get airborne in a stiff breeze, and happy to see your Starliner intact... I love the L-1649. ...best line of your hurricane aftermath video tour: "All right, Autogyro didn't take off".
Mr. Weeks - Thanks much for the tour!! When you mentioned Irma eye wall 5 mi to the South, that would have been right over our home in Lake Alfred!! It was rough, with neighbors losing roofs, siding, vehicles, trees etc, even though we had no damage. Just like you, we had planned ahead, but overall both of us lucky for sure. Lucky defined by old NY Yankee Manager Casey Stengel after Yanks behind 12-0 in bottom of 9th, 2 outs, 2 strikes, and nobody on base. Yankees won 12-13 and Casey exclaimed "I'd rather be lucky than good any day"!! If all Irma took from you was a DC-3 rudder and a sign versus all you had to lose there, you should have gone out and invested in a lottery ticket, as a luckier day in your lifetime you will never see!!! Thanks again for tour as driven by a bunch since retiring in 2010, but could have never imagined so much aviation history and facilities to restore same contained therein!! Good job!!!!!!
We drove by on Sept.6, 2017. Looking at the DC 3, I told my wife I hope there is no damage to the buildings or planes. At that time the weather channels were saying Irma was coming up the center of the state. Thankfully for FofF, it came up the west coast. We drove home on Sept. 9 to avoid the storm, glad we did.
This place is awesome..!! Lucky guy you are Mr. kermit, not only because of the hurricane but the warbirds and planes in general you own..!! Congrats. Greetings from Brazil....
Been anxiously waiting for an FoF update from you Kermet. I'm so relieved all is well with you, yours, and FoF. I look forward to future videos as FoF returns to normal ops. Cheers from Thailand!
I'll never understand why, in our lifetime, the outstanding people like Mr. Weeks with a more than honorable lifetime work dedicated to his pation for the delight of others(like myself), are never spared to these situations.
Awesome video! Loved coming along on this after storm inventory....helped me to understand what it is like for plane osners and other businesses to go through a hurricane....
So glad you made it through the storm alright. My boy still talks about when you landed and he got to fold the wings with you. Best of luck to you and your facility.
There's a cartoon of an AF heavy crew waiting to take off - and a enlisted military person is boarding and says "I have my SEL - if you have any trouble during the flight, let me know" - and the crew says "if we lose 3 engines, we'll let you know". I spent 20 years in the AF flying and I feel like the SEL guy when I watch Kermit's videos..... Great to see everything survived!
Kermit I really admire how much you put into restoring and running all those aircraft, I'm lucky enough to live near Duxford IWM in the UK but would love to visit the Fantasy of Flight museum one day, you're doing a great job.
So glad you, and the magnificent collection are ok . Nice of you to help the Hang Gliding community and the Wallaby Crew That ending was really great Kermit - lol
Dear Kermit Weeks, I'm so glad to see that your Fantasy of Flight Museum made it through the hurricane with only a little extra water and almost no physical damage. I visited in 2011 and really enjoyed the displays. I watch many of your Kermie Cam videos and really enjoy them as well. Keep up the good work, and I hope that you can get back to holding regular Museum hours.
Mr. Weeks, so very glad you came through Irma okay, and that your home and FoF did not sustain more damage! I enjoyed this ‘tour’, and was glad to see the “Angel” (F4U-4) again, even if the carrier deck display is now storage for boxes. I was fortunate enough to say “Hi” to the Angel myself and meet the late Mr. Merle Gustafson at an airshow in Topeka KS in the mid-1980s. Also met the late Mr. Howard Pardue both with his FG-1D and his F4U-4 there as well. THANKS for all you do for us aviation nuts! Being Corsair Crazy myself, all I want for Christmas is a 3-part Kermit Cam on you flying the Angel of Okinawa!
I'm jealous Kermit! You have power at your house and FOF! We're still powerless here at Mount Olive. Very happy your stuff survived this time. Sad day when your Homestead facility got trashed. I love looking up when you fly over the house in one of the warbirds. Hope to get over there one day when it's open. Don
Thanks for filming your recon of FoF! Glad to see it's all relatively ok after Irma.Thought of you and the collection while we were watching it all unfold. Cheers from Hendersonville,N.C. Hmmmmm.....rum sounds good. Love your positive outlook!
Kermit, thanks so much for the update on fantasy of flight! I was really sweat'in it out and telling Irma to LEAVE YOU ALONE,, he 's already been thru one of these!!! very glad damage is minimal. good luck to you all!
Thanks for the update Kermit, I was thinking of your field when Irma went west and north. Was hoping for less damage than Matthew, and it looks like you and the FOF survived much better than some places.
Kermit I am very Thankful Fantasy of Flight made it out Very Well. In light the past heart wrenching experiences with hurricanes you have had like (Andrew in Tamiami), it was joyful to here you express happiness and relief at each area you checked at your wonderful facilities Thank the Good Lord for the protection! And Thank You for tasking us all along for the experience. That was brave!
So relieved to see that things came through relatively well. Had to chuckle at one point - you know you have a lot of airplanes when you "forget" about a DC-3!
greetings from Oregon....I am so excited to hear you guys dodge that bullet.. I have watched the hurricane from the beginning and was fearful you would get way WAY more damaged. My prayers have ben answered! Glad you guys came out ok! Hopefully your staff and their homes made it out ok too.
Great to see and hear you've just dodged a bullet ..hope you are all cleaned and Rearing to continue the fantastic work you do in keeping these icons safe us all I hope to visit sometime this is on top 3 on my bucket list be blessed mark Liverpool uk
Glad to see all of your priceless irreplaceable baby's did ok! And your facilities!
Very happy nothing was badly damaged. So grateful for keeping those treasures in flying conditions !
So happy to see your pride and joy made through the storm Kermit.
You sir, are insanely blessed not to have any damage to the aircraft or buildings! I'm so glad to see that not only are all the aircraft OK, but you're doing well.
I've visited your museum years ago, it was one of the first things to cross my mind when the news gave the track of Irma. I'm SO GLAD you all weathered the storm so well! On behalf of all historical aircraft lovers, thanks so much for all the wonderful videos Mr. Weeks!
A national treasure! Very thankful you all came through with little damage!
Kermit...what a legend. Glad everything turned out okay. Regards from the U.K, CH
So happy to hear all is well. So much history that can't be replaced.
Mr. Weeks, thank you for this, and I am so pleased that you have not endured as previously, the torment caused by a major hurricane.
Having been to your facility a couple of years back, it is good news.
Best regards from England
I've never made it down there so the tour was much appreciated. I'm glad all was well and we could enjoy the tour instead of all being sick over damage. Can you imagine the things he saw sitting on top of that DC-3 during the height of the storm? If only he could talk...
Congratulations Kermit! Thanks for the facility tour!!!!!
Mr. Weeks, it's good to see your unique collection of airworthy aircraft suffered no irreparable damage. But as much as I've been hooked on aviation all my 68 years, I'm concerned about your dad's piano, which of course can't be replaced.
So very thankful to see this outcome, for what could have been a very devastating storm. Thanks for sharing Kermit. And thankful that my nephew Scott Lee, and all of my Florida family and friend came thru this storm okay...
Kermit, I love your attitude all the time, even when you're looking at your damaged property. You're my Oprah.
so glad you and Fantasy of flight survived pretty much intact...best news of the week.
We had a dust storm at Falcon Field in Mesa a few years ago, with winds topping 60 mph. The DC3 parked nearest the road was blown through the fence out across the four lane road. I'm glad your Birds faired this storm well! Until I can get down for a visit, take care of our ladies!
Happy to see you came trough it so well had are fingers crossed over here in the U.K.! Happy!
Irma hit me head on down in Naples. I'm good! Glad to see you are too!
So glad you shared this. Got a lot of friends in Florida... they were all on my mind, and so was Fantasy of Flight. Glad you survived!
I'm so glad you all weathered the storm.
It is good to see that you are ok after all that, and hope that others were safe as well. Also very glad to see that everything was mostly ok at Fantasy of Flight.
Kermit!! Nice to hear almost everything of Fantasy is OK after Irma. Can't wait to see your next flight sharing!!
Hi Kermit, we were so worried for your home and museum...and yourself of course, but so happy to see that damage is relatively minor. We've visited Fantasy of Flight three times now. Can't wait for visit number four. Best wishes from Graham & Stephanie in England.
I am very glad to see how well you weathered the storm.
Thank you for sharing, It's really great to hear the damage is minimal. I love your concern for the Connie, and how thankful you were when you saw she was ok. Show's your love of these machines. Thanks again.
MAN! When I saw the thumbnail and figured out you were doing a video right after the hurricane, two words crossed my mind - Connie & PBY! Wow! SOMEBODY'S on your side! How wonderful!
I'm so happy for you and your collection that you have no damage!!! Here in France we haven't hurricane, that why i've prayed for you and all the Americans people on the south east coast!!
God Bless you!!!
So happy to hear damage was kept to a minimum, Kermit. All the best to you, your family and the Fantasy of Flight Gang for continuing success!!!
Great news Kermit! Congrats to all your staff and prepping so well - loved the ending!
Kermie makes it through Irmie !
Great news ...
Your historical knowledge and airplanes that you collect , rebuild and fly are important to young an old alike . I want to visit Fantasy of Flight one day and bring my nephew . Aviation is an important part of American history . Thank you for all of your work Sir .
wow, you did. make it thru with little damage, so glad to see that.......Thank you for the update, as your followers were worried for sure......
I'm very happy for you guys ! It's awesome that Fantasy of Flight came through the storm relatively unscathed. I'm glad your rubber ducky is ok too ! 🤣
Really pleased and releaved that you , your crew and the aircraft at Fantasy of Flight made it for the most part great news , thanks for the video ,stay safe.
Kermie, you guys lucked out and I am so glad. I love coming to Orlando and every time i do, I make the trip out to see the latest and greatest at Fantasy of Flight. Thank all of your employees for securing everything for you.
Ron
So glad to see everything was safe !
I'm glad all fared well and you guys are safe.... and I bet your sponsors are pretty proud of you on that plug hahaha thanks Kerm...
So glad all was well, hope also all your worker bees and their families are OK too! Enjoyed the behind the scene tour. Firm believer that the state of a persons desk is an indicator of the joy they take in their job. That first office was my kinda place!Bruce
Awesome that everything survived the storm!!!!
Very happy to see you survived the storm!
Thanks for the tour, Kermit!
From here in socal so blessed to see you all made it ,thats awesome! !!!
Good for you, and your historical planes!!
Ketmit Weeks the most down to Earth guy in aviation!
Hello Kermit, just discovered you...WOW Iam just amazed I havent found you sooner. Iam an USAF vet and love aircrafts and flight. So glad to see you survived Big I. I would love to see your place and meet you some day.
Thank you for sharing your love and passion with the the world..
As a client of mine once said..."a man can not have to many airplanes"
i was worried. I remember Andrew in South Florida . looks like you did great!!! so happy
A year after the fact... I'm glad to see no heavy damage done Kermit. A PBY can get airborne in a stiff breeze, and happy to see your Starliner intact... I love the L-1649.
...best line of your hurricane aftermath video tour: "All right, Autogyro didn't take off".
Mr. Weeks - Thanks much for the tour!! When you mentioned Irma eye wall 5 mi to the South, that would have been right over our home in Lake Alfred!! It was rough, with neighbors losing roofs, siding, vehicles, trees etc, even though we had no damage. Just like you, we had planned ahead, but overall both of us lucky for sure. Lucky defined by old NY Yankee Manager Casey Stengel after Yanks behind 12-0 in bottom of 9th, 2 outs, 2 strikes, and nobody on base. Yankees won 12-13 and Casey exclaimed "I'd rather be lucky than good any day"!! If all Irma took from you was a DC-3 rudder and a sign versus all you had to lose there, you should have gone out and invested in a lottery ticket, as a luckier day in your lifetime you will never see!!! Thanks again for tour as driven by a bunch since retiring in 2010, but could have never imagined so much aviation history and facilities to restore same contained therein!! Good job!!!!!!
Happy to see you came out ok.
We drove by on Sept.6, 2017. Looking at the DC 3, I told my wife I hope there is no damage to the buildings or planes. At that time the weather channels were saying Irma was coming up the center of the state. Thankfully for FofF, it came up the west coast. We drove home on Sept. 9 to avoid the storm, glad we did.
One of my favorite destinations so thank you for the update and great to see your FOF is OK
Thanks for the tour :) ... and glad that you had no damage ... hope to be able to visit someday ... best regards.
Amazing looking place .... I love those buildings and the colours they're painted.
You're an absolute legend Kermit!
This place is awesome..!! Lucky guy you are Mr. kermit, not only because of the hurricane but the warbirds and planes in general you own..!! Congrats. Greetings from Brazil....
Considering the strength of Irma, you are very lucky. Need to do a return visit. Last visited September 1999.
Was thinking about Fantasy of Flight last week. Glad that you made out OK.
thats awesome,i happy to have seen this as i doubt many visitors the the museum ever see those offices etc.thank you sir!
Been anxiously waiting for an FoF update from you Kermet. I'm so relieved all is well with you, yours, and FoF. I look forward to future videos as FoF returns to normal ops.
Cheers from Thailand!
That ending was gold! Love it Kermie
Good to see and hear. I was worried about y'all. Great news.
I'll never understand why, in our lifetime, the outstanding people like Mr. Weeks with a more than honorable lifetime work dedicated to his pation for the delight of others(like myself), are never spared to these situations.
Awesome video! Loved coming along on this after storm inventory....helped me to understand what it is like for plane osners and other businesses to go through a hurricane....
Congratulations Kermit! I'm glad FoF made it through.
So glad you made it through the storm alright. My boy still talks about when you landed and he got to fold the wings with you. Best of luck to you and your facility.
Thanks for the complete tour too. What an operation!
glad to see y'all made it though the storm ok i would like to see all the planes sometime
Congratulations on making it through!
Glad that the damage is not too much! And happy about the nice tour :)
I've seen you fly your planes many times! I'm happy you're OK!
definately the coolest pilot i almost know on youtube !
Good to see all is ok with your collection Mr.Weeks!! greets from Belgium
There's a cartoon of an AF heavy crew waiting to take off - and a enlisted military person is boarding and says "I have my SEL - if you have any trouble during the flight, let me know" - and the crew says "if we lose 3 engines, we'll let you know". I spent 20 years in the AF flying and I feel like the SEL guy when I watch Kermit's videos..... Great to see everything survived!
Living the life for sure!
great to hear from you, that it's ok.
Wow, very lucky indeed! Happy you made it through ok.
Nice to see Fantasy of Flight beautiful as always, congrats from Brazil!
Kermit I really admire how much you put into restoring and running all those aircraft, I'm lucky enough to live near Duxford IWM in the UK but would love to visit the Fantasy of Flight museum one day, you're doing a great job.
Excellent, i was concered about You and your fine collection. Glad for the lightness of the damages, hope the Piano didnt suffer too badly.
Glad u were all ok in the end bud. Best wishes from England see you next year hopefully
So glad you fared very well from Irma hate to see something happens to your beautiful airplanes
So glad you, and the magnificent collection are ok .
Nice of you to help the Hang Gliding community and the Wallaby Crew
That ending was really great Kermit - lol
Dear Kermit Weeks, I'm so glad to see that your Fantasy of Flight Museum made it through the hurricane with only a little extra water and almost no physical damage. I visited in 2011 and really enjoyed the displays. I watch many of your Kermie Cam videos and really enjoy them as well. Keep up the good work, and I hope that you can get back to holding regular Museum hours.
Mr. Weeks, so very glad you came through Irma okay, and that your home and FoF did not sustain more damage! I enjoyed this ‘tour’, and was glad to see the “Angel” (F4U-4) again, even if the carrier deck display is now storage for boxes. I was fortunate enough to say “Hi” to the Angel myself and meet the late Mr. Merle Gustafson at an airshow in Topeka KS in the mid-1980s. Also met the late Mr. Howard Pardue both with his FG-1D and his F4U-4 there as well. THANKS for all you do for us aviation nuts! Being Corsair Crazy myself, all I want for Christmas is a 3-part Kermit Cam on you flying the Angel of Okinawa!
Love the video Kermit, glad you and everyone are safe and the Airplanes are ok. All the best from England
I'm jealous Kermit! You have power at your house and FOF! We're still powerless here at Mount Olive. Very happy your stuff survived this time. Sad day when your Homestead facility got trashed. I love looking up when you fly over the house in one of the warbirds. Hope to get over there one day when it's open.
Don
Glad to see your all ok out at fof one day I'll find the cash and cross the pond to see your place as it's on my bucket list 👍
Thanks for filming your recon of FoF! Glad to see it's all relatively ok after Irma.Thought of you and the collection while we were watching it all unfold. Cheers from Hendersonville,N.C. Hmmmmm.....rum sounds good. Love your positive outlook!
Congratulations from Australia, you did it well!!!. New carpet and you are back in business. Thanks so much for sharing.:)
Kermit, thanks so much for the update on fantasy of flight! I was really sweat'in it out and telling Irma to LEAVE YOU ALONE,, he 's already been thru one of these!!! very glad damage is minimal. good luck to you all!
I did not know you had the Angel. I grew up in La and remember when Merle Gustafson flew her. My favorite plane of all time.
Thanks for the update Kermit, I was thinking of your field when Irma went west and north. Was hoping for less damage than Matthew, and it looks like you and the FOF survived much better than some places.
Great news, Glad you got away with very little damage!
Kermit! Glad to see most everything survived. I hope the restoration of the big Sikorsky is coming along ok.
I love Kermie Cam!
Glad everything turned out basically unharmed!!! See ya soon!
Glad you made it through the storm okay... I've driven by your place many times... next time I'm stoppin! Beautiful planes! Best regards, Dave
Kermit I am very Thankful Fantasy of Flight made it out Very Well. In light the past heart wrenching experiences with hurricanes you have had like (Andrew in Tamiami), it was joyful to here you express happiness and relief at each area you checked at your wonderful facilities Thank the Good Lord for the protection! And Thank You for tasking us all along for the experience. That was brave!
So relieved to see that things came through relatively well. Had to chuckle at one point - you know you have a lot of airplanes when you "forget" about a DC-3!
greetings from Oregon....I am so excited to hear you guys dodge that bullet.. I have watched the hurricane from the beginning and was fearful you would get way WAY more damaged. My prayers have ben answered! Glad you guys came out ok! Hopefully your staff and their homes made it out ok too.
Great to see and hear you've just dodged a bullet ..hope you are all cleaned and
Rearing to continue the fantastic work you do in keeping these icons safe us all
I hope to visit sometime this is on top 3 on my bucket list be blessed mark Liverpool uk