Now you know that it's going to be a really fokking good project! Looking forward to this new adventure. Can't wait for you to start sharing this story. Nice!
Those 2 boys / young men are incredible .. i'm sure they were sought after by a number of firms, but I am glad to see they followed their passion and joined Mikey at Buffalo
Good luck with season 2 I think it's a great aircraft to save . I was lucky to be at EAA show and meet you and your Dad and crew I was blown away by how Friendly and approachable you all were , made my experience at DTD wonderful , Thank you all , Bill
Really looking forward to following the rebuild and saving of another iconic aircraft with Mikey and the team.Fantastic news about William and Benjamin and I do hope that Bobby will make an appearance . Best of luck
So glad I woke up and looked at my phone this morning. S2 is going to be great! Can’t believe you hired 2 of the lads from ENA that’s also amazing and shows how you are putting back in to the community Thanks Mikey. Hopefully see you in 2020 for Oshkosh
We were just at the WWI museum in Kansas City. They may be a great resource on all things WWI history. They had limited aviation on display but they have a huge top notch research department. Looking forward to a great Season 2 and being with you all the way.
Holy Molly BatMan McBryan! Almost 4k views in 38 minutes! Please tighten up those safety harnesses and place your tray in the upright position! Wheels up on Season 2! Someone call the Knuckleheads from ENA, press bobby into action, Hire Dusty and Trent, grab the tent, call Tim Hortons and place a order for Pizza! This is gonna be fun! Call Kermit Weeks in Florida (Fantasy of Flight) who has experience with these types of flying death traps! Good Luck God Speed and buy some life Insurance! Orville and Wilber wouldn't fly that bucket of bolts, well fabric and ply wood! O.o Cheers from USA!
What a nice surprise! Plane Savers Season 2. And a Fokker Dr-I it is. Great to hear Benjamin and William wil be working for Buffalo Airways! Congratulations guys! What a great spin-off for you guys after Plane Savers Season 1.
I was born in The Netherlands... In a town called Hilversum. On a street called. ANTHONY FOKKER WEG. I lived there till I was 16 What a great personal connection to PlaneSavers2 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
It will be epic!!! 1) Taking over Oshkosh in 2020, didn’t you do that in 2019? 2) Your Production and Post-Production skills have come a long way in 156 episodes. 3) That was one hell of a gift to Benjamin and William. They will get to see and experience aviation in a way no other freshly minted A&Es will. 4) I can’t wait to see where this adventure leads!
Had a 7hr drive for a delivery today. All I thought about was this episode. I got home. My wife was "how was your day?" And all I said was "ssshhh...season 2 of plane savers. Watching it. I'll talk to you later." Lol Needless to say...I'm on make myself my own supper tonight I'm sure....lol....gonna be a Kraft Dinner and ham and cheese sandwich night tonight Plane Savers nation. So cool its gonna be a "red Barron" plane. Can't wait to come along with yous on this journey.
Hey Mikey, great to see the return of plane savers! You should hit up Kermit Weeks, I’m sure he would help you guys out with his experience of this era of aircraft, and contacts for parts and he mentioned Buffalo in last a video last week! 👍
O'Hare Approach Control to a 747: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a Fokker, one o'clock, three miles, Eastbound." United 329: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this...I've got the little Fokker in sight.
This is going to be one very worthy learning experience. . History and Engineering, combined into one very exciting package. . Well worth watching all of the RUclips ads for ! . Here we go, Season two of PLANE SAVERS cleared for takeoff ... .
This is awesome Mikey!! I remember when I was sent to the spare hangar to remove the data plate when you and Danny started to talk about it. Cant wait to see her fly again!!!! I dont know what season I will like more now!!!!
Awesome! This is going to be great! Not only do we learn the history but to see the work involved to restore this aircraft will be very very interesting. Great choice love it!!
Given this big reveal, you will need to visit New Zealand and talk to Sir Peter Jackson who is a major, major, major WW1 aviation enthusiast and his The Vintage Aviator Limited which rebuild original WW1 aircraft and replica - exact to the original plans - WW1 aircraft. Also people in NZ building some great rotary engines for WW1 type aircraft. Also need to visit Australia and the Australian War Memorial in Canberra who hold in their collection a number of personal items and aircraft parts from the original Red Baron when he was shot down in France in 1918. I already have the appropriate "Old Fokker" t-shirt from Omaka in NZ.
Bring it on. Glad to see the ENA twins in the fold. Great ongoing learning experience for them and ultimately William on the stick putting the re-built DT1 thru her paces. Good luck everyone.
This is incredible news. Mikey and the crew have such incredible and beautiful passion for these planes and their history...it is contagious. I have so much respect for Mikey and the whole Buffalo crew. I think Mikey made a very wise decision in cutting down on the frequency of the videos with season 2. While we, the fans, totally dug having a new Plane Savers video every day during season 1, that had to be extremely exhausting and overwhelming for Mikey. A lot of people..and especially those who have never attempted video editing have no idea how much work goes into making a video. Especially a presentable, professional video. Mikey definitely busted his butt to put all of those videos out. I think that scaling it back and only releasing 2 or 3 a week is a very, very wise idea. Anyway, I am 100% positive that this project will be another success. I had a suspicion that the next plane that the gang took on would an older, open-cockpit plane or biplane...and my prediction came true!
Mikey ... This announcement is so terrific . I am very glad that the mighty Plane Savers team will come back together and give another classic aircraft new life . I hope this only one of many . All the best on the endeavor .
Put Omaka New Zealand on your list of places to visit. They have one of the largest collections of great war aircraft, and you always wanted to go there anyway.
Please have Snoopy involved. When I see the Red Baron i always have Snoopy and his mug of root beer in the back of my mind. Thanks for all your hard work!!
I remember an old saying about DR 1s. "Iron Cross, Red Cross or wooden cross" . Im glad the pilot got away with the middle option!! All the best for the new season!
Oooo! This is going to be great!!! Hope everyone shares the videos like crazy and the subs go +100K quickly so it can bring in some sweet RUclips money/sponsorships to fill up the money-eating the big black hole called "Restoration".
Season 1 was amazing because of the people that came together to make DTD fly! Plane Savers 2.0 is going to be awesome! There is so much history to be told and Canadians were a huge part of it (Bishop, Collishaw, Barker, McKeever, Brown, May and many more)! The actual seat of the Red Baron's triplane is on display in the Royal Millitary Institute in Toronto. This will be an amazing adventure and chance to look into some brilliant Canadian history!
This is so awesome... I've been thinking about building a Sopwith Baby in my garage and this is just fuel for the fire... Can't wait to witness this transformation... Thank you Plane Savers!
I was like "it says Dr1!", then mikey was like "that's the registration, i was sad, then he reveals it, "Boy! Don't play me like that!" Excited for season 2!
You are full of surprises. So happy to see that William and Benjamin are now officially part of the crew. When you are building up this bird can I come over and clean the floor and be your tea boy ??
My class at the A&P school I went too was the last one to learn dope and fabric. In fact, I still have the airfoil I made as the school project. I can still smell the dope! :)
ahhhh - the hours of boredom are over! Plane Savers is back! If I have time I might fly across the pond from good old Europe (Germany!) just to take a towel and polish or clean up - if you need someone with these exceptional skills...
Hi Mikey. Great to have met you @ Oshkosh! If an engine is needed, maybe don't worry about finding an original rotary. A radial would be fine and they are a lot less trouble. Besides you could fuel a radial with gasoline or avgas instead of that nasty castor bean oil. Best of luck ##
Glad that you are back with another project. The encore for DTD will be interesting. IMT, please do not let DTD languish through the winter and revert to its previous state. Thanks for a great 1st season; watched each and every daily episode as you presented them. Best wishes and looking forward to seeing the DR-1 once again take to the air.
That’s so awesome. My wife’s grandfather was an Aussie unit in 1918 that was there the day of Red Baron fell. What a great honour to Germany Canada, France and Australia. And the identifiable ww1 plane. Can’t wait Mikey. Sounds so great.
You know, I wasn't head over heels at first hearing it was a DR1. SOMONE spoiled it in FB ;) but now that I've seen the episode and hear your plans, I'm on board. Ready for a kick ass season two! So excited for Benjamin and William! What an awesome turn of events. So excited.
Mikey, just flew home from Calgary after spending 6 days southwest of Red Deer. I passed through Penhold one day on the way to Red Deer, and looked at the airport from afar hopping to see your DC3. Unfortunately I had no luck, but I didn’t turn off of 2A either. Didn’t hear you in the air either. Looking forward to Season 2 of Plane Savers!
This is really cool Mikey! We had a Sopwith Pup at Middle Wallop in the UK. It was freaky. The crank was bolted to the plane and the whole engine spun round, the dash had a button with mag On/Off, and the coms were, you shout loud. You're going to have fun!
Mikey, this is crazy.... Only an hour or so ago this evening while awaiting your Plane Savers premiere season 2 video I was watching a RUclips video of Herman Goring's collection of WW 1 aircraft. Herman Goring was a WW1 fighter ace in the Red Baron's squadron. After the end of WW1 he amassed a collection of old WW1 aircraft, in it was the last Fokker D1 Triplane that was ever made. There are only about 70 original WW1 aircraft left in the world, and 13 of them are in the Herman Goring collection that is in Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow, Poland. The link to the video is below. This is going to be a really worthy follow up to Series 1, and I for one am delighted that you have chosen something this old and unique to save, and once again I will be following with avid interest. I also look forward with added interest for my planned visited to Yellowknife next Mid-May. David Jones Coventry UK ruclips.net/video/h9fH8SZEbGk/видео.html
Hey welcome back Plane Savers, I'm looking foreward to watch the episodes on my laptop in front of me at breakfast once more ,as I did with the DC-3. Nice! But a bit dissapointed too. I had hoped for something like a Concord, or a spaceshuttle :-) Or maybe an A-380 now that Air France is selling their A-380's soon. Well, who knows for season 3 ! No-no, very glad to have you guys, and girl back (go for it Stella! Start shaking those cans of red paint). Let the games begin !!! Good luck from Holland
It is great that William and Ben are joining Buffalo this September but I hope Ben finishes his studies at ENA and graduates with a diploma next year. Two great young men for sure. Met them both at Oshkosh.
You do realise that any trips you make to Europe will have a HUGE following.. We will all want to be there and be able to say to our grandchildren ' I remember the day I met Mikey and Stella'
I think I'm going to enjoy the 3 episodes a week format. Trying to keep up with 10-20 minutes every single day with DTD was tough when life got busy. But I'm definitely glad the void of nothingness since D-Day is over
Awesome Mikey! Excited for this project as well. Continuing to support like season 1. Love what you are doing to aviation and aviation history. Cheers from Sweden.
Wow! An old Fokker DR.1...brilliant choice! I look forward to seeing many interesting (fantastic) episodes of PS2 (sounds like a video game), featuring the rebuild of the famous Fokker. Benjamin and William are a great catch, too. Mikey, I know that you know this, but the Fokker DR.1 was preceded in history by the Sopwith Triplane. The DR.1 was Germany's answer to the Sopwith Triplane. Also, the air museum in Calgary has a replica Sopwith Triplane, that was built in Calgary, from exact plans, so it is as close to the real deal as one can get. Perhaps a visit to Calgary might yield some helpful tips. In the end, it would be very neat to see the two triplanes together, if it could be arranged. Great choices for season two, Mikey.
Looks great. Can’t wait and will be watching all. From what I understand Fokker DR-1 can be tough to fly. Others will chime in who know more about it. Kinda like building the old Guillows balsa kit LOL. Cheers Dave out
First question which comes to mind: engine. The original had a rotary, which can be problematic in a number of ways, which is why they're rare. The usual substitute is a radial. Statically they don't look much different from a rotary, but running the difference is immediate and dramatic.
You could not have picked a better subject Mikey,this famous machine will rekindle old skills and help keep them alive,the aircraft is manageable to rebuild and will only take up a tiny work area in the hangar and once built will have a lot of airshow appeal,remember these can be tricky little machines to handle especially on landing them as they are well known for ground looping,check out the Old Rhinebeck museum page to see the machines owned by the late Col Palen,the museum holds a wealth of knowledge on early aeroplanes the DR.1 included. What an exciting start to season two and we look forward to seeing footage of your flight to Oshkosh and how you got on there. To Stella I say wash your paint brushes because there is some interesting original hand streaking paintwork on the Fokker Dr.1 so get that container open and lets see what is in the box !
Your new recruits, fresh out of ENA probably have fresh knowledge of wood, dope and fabric. They were still teaching this in FAA approved A&P schools when I graduated 7 years ago. Was great seeing you on multiple channels, from Oshkosh. Plane Savers!!!
What a FOKKER of a project LOL, Anxious to see this progress Mikey, DTD was such a fine rebuild and proud of you and all the guys who worked on it. Is it gonna be RED, if so Stella get your brush and rollers ready girl. !!! Nice project truly.....
If you get to south west Germany don't miss the Technik Museum in Speyer and Sinsheim. Ever wanted to walk on the wing of a Boeing 747? See an Antonov AN-22 from inside? Walk through a submarine and get close to a Space Shuttle Buran? Speyer has it. In Sinsheim you can see a Concorde, a Tupolev TU-144, a Messerschmitt Me-109, a Canadair CL-215... If you get to Berlin plan an excursion to Finowfurt. There is an aviation museum on an old soviet military air port. Lots of MiGs there...
Nice project Mikey. a WW1 tri-plane. Wood and fabrics that will be a nice restoration. So this will be a good season of Plane Savers 2. Oh Mikey, about the day to day episodes. Since it's a restoration of a wooden airplane, it would be nice to show the restoration of the top wing from A to Z, that way it would help anyone that want to restore a wood frame covered in fabric type of airplane or even build a replica. Because in the first season with DTD, outside of the tail cone and the paint job of the DC-3, most of the restoration was out of our viewing. This Tri-Plane will give us the viewer what a wing of that period is made of, the process of the time that is updated to today's standard. And show how fragile the technology of the time was. And any plane enthusiast knows that the Tri-plane has an inerrant flaws because of the triple wing setup compared to a by-plane. Also The tri-plane may look small and I'm sure that many will think, that restoration will be fast. wrong in reality this type of plane, you have to take it slow so the glue you use sets properly, etc. So I wish one great restoration and I'll watch this seasons with a big Smile. One question: Will you paint the plane with the colors of the Red Baron ?
Awesome choice - you've got to get down to Omaka in NZ where Peter Jackson has amassed an amazing WW1 collection of planes and paraphernalia. Also the Shuttleworth Collection in the UK where they fly ORIGINAL WW1 and pre WW1 aircraft regularly. Great to have Plane Savers back👍😜
I got to meet you very briefly at KOSH(Thursday) because you and Stella were busy with an interview. Just got to shake your hand and said thank you as you were walking around DTD lol. Stoked to get to see Season 2 of Plane Savers from the start.
Oh this should be a good project, looking forward to it. Was cool to see some of the EAA cams panning back and forth and could see DTD on the flight line. Looks like you had a good seat for the fireworks show LOL
Incredible! We are here for the ride. Good to see the editing skills have also greatly improved but the essence of the show remains the same. PS SN2. Leego!
Now it will be ok when Stella yells, "she's gonna Fokking Fly!"
Or "watch the Fokker Fly!".
Eric Svalland or Fly Fokker Fly!
Now you know that it's going to be a really fokking good project! Looking forward to this new adventure. Can't wait for you to start sharing this story. Nice!
FOK!
Nicely said lol i actually see that in my mind ohhh funny 👍✌
I think Buffalo has made a good investment in getting William and Benj.
Those 2 boys / young men are incredible .. i'm sure they were sought after by a number of firms, but I am glad to see they followed their passion and joined Mikey at Buffalo
Bob, did you used to have a show called “The Great White North”?
@@sledawgpilot No but I use to get asked that a lot. You must be older as the you ones today have no idea who B M is.
I think yer a hoser for calling me old eh?
@@bobmckenzie386 who's B M ? lol
YEEESSSSSS!!!
Can't wait to follow along! And hopefully our "secret project" aligns as planned!
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Ooooh... how very cryptic Mr Chops!!🤔
FlightChops and here i was just thinking to myself, I wonder how FlightChops is going to fit in with the reveal... now I have the answer...👍🏼
Secretssssss.
Oh you cannot tease us so !!
Great story that you hired the 2 kids from the Aviation school. Hard workers great choice. Can’t wait to see more.
Good luck with season 2 I think it's a great aircraft to save . I was lucky to be at EAA show and meet you and your Dad and crew I was blown away by how Friendly and approachable you all were , made my experience at DTD wonderful , Thank you all , Bill
Missed you guys, welcome back. Hopefully Bobby’s making an appearance.
Really looking forward to following the rebuild and saving of another iconic aircraft with Mikey and the team.Fantastic news about William and Benjamin and I do hope that Bobby will make an appearance . Best of luck
So glad I woke up and looked at my phone this morning.
S2 is going to be great!
Can’t believe you hired 2 of the lads from ENA that’s also amazing and shows how you are putting back in to the community
Thanks Mikey. Hopefully see you in 2020 for Oshkosh
We were just at the WWI museum in Kansas City. They may be a great resource on all things WWI history. They had limited aviation on display but they have a huge top notch research department. Looking forward to a great Season 2 and being with you all the way.
Holy Molly BatMan McBryan! Almost 4k views in 38 minutes! Please tighten up those safety harnesses and place your tray in the upright position!
Wheels up on Season 2! Someone call the Knuckleheads from ENA, press bobby into action, Hire Dusty and Trent, grab the tent, call Tim Hortons and place a order for Pizza! This is gonna be fun! Call Kermit Weeks in Florida (Fantasy of Flight) who has experience with these types of flying death traps! Good Luck God Speed and buy some life Insurance! Orville and Wilber wouldn't fly that bucket of bolts, well fabric and ply wood! O.o Cheers from USA!
What a nice surprise! Plane Savers Season 2. And a Fokker Dr-I it is. Great to hear Benjamin and William wil be working for Buffalo Airways! Congratulations guys! What a great spin-off for you guys after Plane Savers Season 1.
I was born in The Netherlands... In a town called Hilversum. On a street called.
ANTHONY FOKKER WEG.
I lived there till I was 16
What a great personal connection to PlaneSavers2
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It will be epic!!!
1) Taking over Oshkosh in 2020, didn’t you do that in 2019?
2) Your Production and Post-Production skills have come a long way in 156 episodes.
3) That was one hell of a gift to Benjamin and William. They will get to see and experience aviation in a way no other freshly minted A&Es will.
4) I can’t wait to see where this adventure leads!
Had a 7hr drive for a delivery today. All I thought about was this episode. I got home. My wife was "how was your day?" And all I said was "ssshhh...season 2 of plane savers. Watching it. I'll talk to you later." Lol
Needless to say...I'm on make myself my own supper tonight I'm sure....lol....gonna be a Kraft Dinner and ham and cheese sandwich night tonight Plane Savers nation.
So cool its gonna be a "red Barron" plane. Can't wait to come along with yous on this journey.
Hey Mikey, great to see the return of plane savers!
You should hit up Kermit Weeks, I’m sure he would help you guys out with his experience of this era of aircraft, and contacts for parts and he mentioned Buffalo in last a video last week!
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I was thinking the same thing. He and his crew could be a lot of help on WWI stuff.
Just send DTD down to pick those parts up.
O'Hare Approach Control to a 747: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a Fokker, one o'clock, three miles, Eastbound."
United 329: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this...I've got the little Fokker in sight.
Great news Mikey. Wanna make sure to put Yellowknife on the world's foremost aviation restoration center for a little Fokker.
This is going to be one very worthy learning experience.
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History and Engineering, combined into one very exciting package.
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Well worth watching all of the RUclips ads for !
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Here we go, Season two of PLANE SAVERS cleared for takeoff ...
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This is awesome Mikey!! I remember when I was sent to the spare hangar to remove the data plate when you and Danny started to talk about it. Cant wait to see her fly again!!!! I dont know what season I will like more now!!!!
Iconic WW-1 aircraft, Mikey. Look forward to learning about its history. Thanks.
Has Stella been saving up all the red paint that she can find?
lol
They bought extra for DTD's stripe....now we know why lol
Stella is going to be the red baroness with a red leather flightsuit and that platinum hair blowing in the prop wash.
Everyone should send Mikey a stuffed Snoopy to show support... after all - Stella's already got a 'Teddy Bear' ;) Good luck, 'Plane Saver'
Awesome! This is going to be great! Not only do we learn the history but to see the work involved to restore this aircraft will be very very interesting. Great choice love it!!
Given this big reveal, you will need to visit New Zealand and talk to Sir Peter Jackson who is a major, major, major WW1 aviation enthusiast and his The Vintage Aviator Limited which rebuild original WW1 aircraft and replica - exact to the original plans - WW1 aircraft. Also people in NZ building some great rotary engines for WW1 type aircraft. Also need to visit Australia and the Australian War Memorial in Canberra who hold in their collection a number of personal items and aircraft parts from the original Red Baron when he was shot down in France in 1918. I already have the appropriate "Old Fokker" t-shirt from Omaka in NZ.
Bring it on. Glad to see the ENA twins in the fold. Great ongoing learning experience for them and ultimately William on the stick putting the re-built DT1 thru her paces. Good luck everyone.
This is incredible news. Mikey and the crew have such incredible and beautiful passion for these planes and their history...it is contagious. I have so much respect for Mikey and the whole Buffalo crew. I think Mikey made a very wise decision in cutting down on the frequency of the videos with season 2. While we, the fans, totally dug having a new Plane Savers video every day during season 1, that had to be extremely exhausting and overwhelming for Mikey. A lot of people..and especially those who have never attempted video editing have no idea how much work goes into making a video. Especially a presentable, professional video. Mikey definitely busted his butt to put all of those videos out. I think that scaling it back and only releasing 2 or 3 a week is a very, very wise idea.
Anyway, I am 100% positive that this project will be another success. I had a suspicion that the next plane that the gang took on would an older, open-cockpit plane or biplane...and my prediction came true!
Mikey ... This announcement is so terrific . I am very glad that the mighty Plane Savers team will come back together and give another classic aircraft new life .
I hope this only one of many . All the best on the endeavor .
Welcome back team. Glad the "students" have got jobs with Buffalo, they deserved them for their work ethic and enthusiasm.
Put Omaka New Zealand on your list of places to visit. They have one of the largest collections of great war aircraft, and you always wanted to go there anyway.
MIKEY IS GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER!!!!
As I said long ago, on that winter day...."this is gonna be fun"
Awesome! Okay, season 3 needs to be the 'Fire Eaters' A-26!
Looking forward to this next adventure. Maybe Stella will teach you to drive the Autobahn when you are there.
Congratulations Jeremy and William. Enjoy your aviation careers.
Big thumbs up thanks Mikey
Please have Snoopy involved. When I see the Red Baron i always have Snoopy and his mug of root beer in the back of my mind. Thanks for all your hard work!!
I remember an old saying about DR 1s. "Iron Cross, Red Cross or wooden cross" . Im glad the pilot got away with the middle option!! All the best for the new season!
Oooo! This is going to be great!!! Hope everyone shares the videos like crazy and the subs go +100K quickly so it can bring in some sweet RUclips money/sponsorships to fill up the money-eating the big black hole called "Restoration".
Season 1 was amazing because of the people that came together to make DTD fly! Plane Savers 2.0 is going to be awesome! There is so much history to be told and Canadians were a huge part of it (Bishop, Collishaw, Barker, McKeever, Brown, May and many more)! The actual seat of the Red Baron's triplane is on display in the Royal Millitary Institute in Toronto. This will be an amazing adventure and chance to look into some brilliant Canadian history!
This is so awesome... I've been thinking about building a Sopwith Baby in my garage and this is just fuel for the fire... Can't wait to witness this transformation... Thank you Plane Savers!
Awesome Mikey so good to see Plane Savers back for season 2 👍 doesn't Bruce Dickinson have one of these aircraft? He must appear in an episode 🤘🤘
He dose Sean, and he still flys it at events and shows, thanks when he is not on tour that is, he also owns Cardiff Aviation, St Athan, in Wales UK.
I was like "it says Dr1!", then mikey was like "that's the registration, i was sad, then he reveals it, "Boy! Don't play me like that!" Excited for season 2!
This makes me so happy that you’re returning another beauty back to where it belongs... the air.
Thanks Mikey! Looking forward to following another project and learning more about WW1 aviation.
You are full of surprises. So happy to see that William and Benjamin are now officially part of the crew. When you are building up this bird can I come over and clean the floor and be your tea boy ??
Geez Mikey..that's no challenge for Stella...she'll have that bird painted before the weekends out. ;). Good luck and I look forward to Season 2.
My class at the A&P school I went too was the last one to learn dope and fabric. In fact, I still have the airfoil I made as the school project. I can still smell the dope! :)
Fantastic! Sticks and stitches for the boys to play with. Let's get to it! Love that you have the new cowling already.
Season 2 baby, Please turn season 1 into a box set of DVD's so glad Wiliam and Benjamin back there awesome hope Jay comes back as well
ahhhh - the hours of boredom are over! Plane Savers is back! If I have time I might fly across the pond from good old Europe (Germany!) just to take a towel and polish or clean up - if you need someone with these exceptional skills...
Wow didn’t see that one coming. A very interesting choice and I look forward to learning more about WW 1 aviation along the way.
Oooh, gonna LOVE this one Mikey. bonus feature= more Stella smiles!
Hi Mikey. Great to have met you @ Oshkosh!
If an engine is needed, maybe don't worry about finding an original rotary. A radial would be fine and they are a lot less trouble. Besides you could fuel a radial with gasoline or avgas instead of that nasty castor bean oil.
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Woot woot, season two! And it's open cockpit, really takes us back to the birth of aviation.
Glad that you are back with another project. The encore for DTD will be interesting. IMT, please do not let DTD languish through the winter and revert to its previous state. Thanks for a great 1st season; watched each and every daily episode as you presented them. Best wishes and looking forward to seeing the DR-1 once again take to the air.
That’s so awesome. My wife’s grandfather was an Aussie unit in 1918 that was there the day of Red Baron fell. What a great honour to Germany Canada, France and Australia.
And the identifiable ww1 plane.
Can’t wait Mikey. Sounds so great.
Way to rock the Oshkosh weekly pass wristband! It was a sad moment to cut mine off. It was a pleasure meeting you there and seeing DTD and the crew!!
Nice catch
Awesome pick! Please tell beforehand when you come to Germany and esp Netherlands so we can offer you a Stroopwaffel.
Stroopwaffels are my crack! I bet they're even better fresh!
They have them at McDonalds! Stroopwafel mcflurry layers of lce cream and Stroopwafel.
@@ratbert86 they are. its a Pita to make especially the caramel sauce but - worth it.
@@John_Be yeah no, that's not even close. :-D
Poffertjes as well as stroopwafel!
You know, I wasn't head over heels at first hearing it was a DR1. SOMONE spoiled it in FB ;) but now that I've seen the episode and hear your plans, I'm on board. Ready for a kick ass season two! So excited for Benjamin and William! What an awesome turn of events. So excited.
Being Dutch I can only applaud your decision to rebuild a Fokker airplane ;)
Good luck with your project, I can't wait for the videos!
Let me be the first to say: Get that Fokker flying again!
Mikey, just flew home from Calgary after spending 6 days southwest of Red Deer. I passed through Penhold one day on the way to Red Deer, and looked at the airport from afar hopping to see your DC3. Unfortunately I had no luck, but I didn’t turn off of 2A either. Didn’t hear you in the air either. Looking forward to Season 2 of Plane Savers!
Good on you/Buffalo for hiring William and Benjamin. And what an interesting and great project this will be to do. +1
This is really cool Mikey! We had a Sopwith Pup at Middle Wallop in the UK. It was freaky. The crank was bolted to the plane and the whole engine spun round, the dash had a button with mag On/Off, and the coms were, you shout loud. You're going to have fun!
Awesome Mikey! History, airplanes and building stuff. Three of my favorite things!
I was at the Geneseo airshow when that DR went down. Went in right in front of me. Crazy the pilot made it out and amazing it ended up with you!
Mikey, this is crazy.... Only an hour or so ago this evening while awaiting your Plane Savers premiere season 2 video I was watching a RUclips video of Herman Goring's collection of WW 1 aircraft. Herman Goring was a WW1 fighter ace in the Red Baron's squadron. After the end of WW1 he amassed a collection of old WW1 aircraft, in it was the last Fokker D1 Triplane that was ever made. There are only about 70 original WW1 aircraft left in the world, and 13 of them are in the Herman Goring collection that is in Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow, Poland. The link to the video is below.
This is going to be a really worthy follow up to Series 1, and I for one am delighted that you have chosen something this old and unique to save, and once again I will be following with avid interest. I also look forward with added interest for my planned visited to Yellowknife next Mid-May.
David Jones
Coventry
UK
ruclips.net/video/h9fH8SZEbGk/видео.html
I watchhed that one last night. Well worth watching.
Oooo super excited! What a great bit of history the tri-plane is! This season should be awesome!
Hey welcome back Plane Savers,
I'm looking foreward to watch the episodes on my laptop in front of me at breakfast once more ,as I did with the DC-3. Nice! But a bit dissapointed too. I had hoped for something like a Concord, or a spaceshuttle :-) Or maybe an A-380 now that Air France is selling their A-380's soon. Well, who knows for season 3 ! No-no, very glad to have you guys, and girl back (go for it Stella! Start shaking those cans of red paint).
Let the games begin !!! Good luck from Holland
Thanks Mikey, Stella & Rod, looking forward to what's ahead.
It is great that William and Ben are joining Buffalo this September but I hope Ben finishes his studies at ENA and graduates with a diploma next year. Two great young men for sure. Met them both at Oshkosh.
Oh boy what a project! Travelling the world to bring this one to us.. FANTASTIC!
You do realise that any trips you make to Europe will have a HUGE following.. We will all want to be there and be able to say to our grandchildren ' I remember the day I met Mikey and Stella'
I think I'm going to enjoy the 3 episodes a week format. Trying to keep up with 10-20 minutes every single day with DTD was tough when life got busy. But I'm definitely glad the void of nothingness since D-Day is over
Didn’t see that coming ! Best of luck. Can’t wait for the update videos.
Awesome Mikey! Excited for this project as well. Continuing to support like season 1. Love what you are doing to aviation and aviation history. Cheers from Sweden.
Great to have you back for Season 2 of Plane Savers Mikey.👍
Thanks Mikey for the information on the next plane savers air frame. May you and yours have a blessed evening. Shalom
Wow! An old Fokker DR.1...brilliant choice! I look forward to seeing many interesting (fantastic) episodes of PS2 (sounds like a video game), featuring the rebuild of the famous Fokker. Benjamin and William are a great catch, too.
Mikey, I know that you know this, but the Fokker DR.1 was preceded in history by the Sopwith Triplane. The DR.1 was Germany's answer to the Sopwith Triplane. Also, the air museum in Calgary has a replica Sopwith Triplane, that was built in Calgary, from exact plans, so it is as close to the real deal as one can get. Perhaps a visit to Calgary might yield some helpful tips. In the end, it would be very neat to see the two triplanes together, if it could be arranged.
Great choices for season two, Mikey.
Man oh man, a DR-1. Yes, Manfred flew one as well as an Albatross. Can't wait for the build to start ! Nice intro episode Mikey !
Love your curiosity and enthusiasm Mikey, It is infectious. Such a worthy goal. Look forward to another incredible collaboration, with the world !
Looks great. Can’t wait and will be watching all. From what I understand Fokker DR-1 can be tough to fly. Others will chime in who know more about it. Kinda like building the old Guillows balsa kit LOL.
Cheers Dave out
Very glad to see you back. You’ve been missed.
7:29 - Buffalo Green background with a White Buffalo, or White background with a Buffalo Green Buffalo.
First question which comes to mind: engine.
The original had a rotary, which can be problematic in a number of ways, which is why they're rare.
The usual substitute is a radial. Statically they don't look much different from a rotary, but running the difference is immediate and dramatic.
It has to be a replica, there are NO original planes left. Hermann Goring had the last one , it was destroyed. Still cool though.
You could not have picked a better subject Mikey,this famous machine will rekindle old skills and help keep them alive,the aircraft is manageable to rebuild and will only take up a tiny work area in the hangar and once built will have a lot of airshow appeal,remember these can be tricky little machines to handle especially on landing them as they are well known for ground looping,check out the Old Rhinebeck museum page to see the machines owned by the late Col Palen,the museum holds a wealth of knowledge on early aeroplanes the DR.1 included.
What an exciting start to season two and we look forward to seeing footage of your flight to Oshkosh and how you got on there.
To Stella I say wash your paint brushes because there is some interesting original hand streaking paintwork on the Fokker Dr.1 so get that container open and lets see what is in the box !
👍 Perfect Comment!!!
Your new recruits, fresh out of ENA probably have fresh knowledge of wood, dope and fabric. They were still teaching this in FAA approved A&P schools when I graduated 7 years ago. Was great seeing you on multiple channels, from Oshkosh. Plane Savers!!!
What a FOKKER of a project LOL, Anxious to see this progress Mikey, DTD was such a fine rebuild and proud of you and all the guys who worked on it. Is it gonna be RED, if so Stella get your brush and rollers ready girl. !!! Nice project truly.....
If you get to south west Germany don't miss the Technik Museum in Speyer and Sinsheim. Ever wanted to walk on the wing of a Boeing 747? See an Antonov AN-22 from inside? Walk through a submarine and get close to a Space Shuttle Buran? Speyer has it. In Sinsheim you can see a Concorde, a Tupolev TU-144, a Messerschmitt Me-109, a Canadair CL-215... If you get to Berlin plan an excursion to Finowfurt. There is an aviation museum on an old soviet military air port. Lots of MiGs there...
Nice project Mikey. a WW1 tri-plane. Wood and fabrics that will be a nice restoration. So this will be a good season of Plane Savers 2.
Oh Mikey, about the day to day episodes. Since it's a restoration of a wooden airplane, it would be nice to show the restoration of the top wing from A to Z, that way it would help anyone that want to restore a wood frame covered in fabric type of airplane or even build a replica. Because in the first season with DTD, outside of the tail cone and the paint job of the DC-3, most of the restoration was out of our viewing.
This Tri-Plane will give us the viewer what a wing of that period is made of, the process of the time that is updated to today's standard. And show how fragile the technology of the time was.
And any plane enthusiast knows that the Tri-plane has an inerrant flaws because of the triple wing setup compared to a by-plane.
Also The tri-plane may look small and I'm sure that many will think, that restoration will be fast. wrong in reality this type of plane, you have to take it slow so the glue you use sets properly, etc.
So I wish one great restoration and I'll watch this seasons with a big Smile.
One question: Will you paint the plane with the colors of the Red Baron ?
Iconic to say the least. Really looking forward watching the resurrection of the DR-1 triplane.👍PLANE SAVERS 2👍
My buddy JUST built one, hasn't even flown it yet . . . I'll get pictures! And I helped! :)
Hello Lea, how are you doing?
@@paulrourke4785 Hey Paul, I'm doing well. How about you? :)
It was under our noses all this time. You sly fox you! I am looking forward to watching this one come together
Ouch! That Fokker got hurt! Can’t wait to see this season! I love Fokkers. I always walk around and say look at that Fokker!
Yes Season 2 is here and a tri plane too!!!!
Awesome choice - you've got to get down to Omaka in NZ where Peter Jackson has amassed an amazing WW1 collection of planes and paraphernalia. Also the Shuttleworth Collection in the UK where they fly ORIGINAL WW1 and pre WW1 aircraft regularly. Great to have Plane Savers back👍😜
Great to see the new project starting!! WWI aircraft deserve some publicity as well. Glad to see you doing it!
Followed DTD's journey from episode 0 NOW looking forward to watching you work your magic again on this DR-1
I got to meet you very briefly at KOSH(Thursday) because you and Stella were busy with an interview. Just got to shake your hand and said thank you as you were walking around DTD lol. Stoked to get to see Season 2 of Plane Savers from the start.
Oh this should be a good project, looking forward to it. Was cool to see some of the EAA cams panning back and forth and could see DTD on the flight line. Looks like you had a good seat for the fireworks show LOL
Incredible!
We are here for the ride.
Good to see the editing skills have also greatly improved but the essence of the show remains the same.
PS SN2. Leego!