Ford 5-AT Trimotor - Start-Up, Taxi, & Run-Up
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- The Ford 5AT Tri-Motor is truly one cool airplane. Here’s a great clip of a start-up, taxi, and run-up. At some point, in ACT III I plan to give rides in this, so people can experience the birth of commuter flight. Enjoy!
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Only a very few years before I lost my dad, we were fortunate enough to have been able to take a nostalgia touch and go flight out of Port Clinton, Ohio airfield, into it's historic U.S Mail stop on South Bass Island Airstrip and back to Port Clinton, Ohio airfield !
I can't remember my dad ever having a smile like that on his face before that very special day !
One of my best investments ever !
Nice job gentlemen !
Keep the passion alive !
Great! Thanks for sharing. Sorry for your loss.
I can't believe I just set her for 20 minutes to watch a tri motor taxi and return to the parking ramp. Thank you Kermit.
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Good Memories
My first airplane ride was in a Tri-motor back somewhere around 1976 at an air show in Fraser, Michigan
I read up on Kermit's collection, but it's always cool to see what he'll pull out. Who doesn't love this aircraft? It just wanted to jump into the air on the run -up.
I know it's "just a machine" but when you see it alive like this that's hard to believe. It carries the spirit of the people that made it fly, and something of the zeitgeist of that era. Thanks!
P.S. every time I go down I-4 (not often) I want to stop by your museum. Maybe next time I'll make it...
I had the honor of flying in one at thr EAA Fly in convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the early 80’s.
A real beauty ! Thanks Kermit
What a treat today. Thank you Mr Weeks. You’re the best!
A Ford Tri- Motor being prepared side by side with a Douglas Dakota, how much beauty and nostalgia can one lazy sunday morning take?
I love those old radial engines. The sound they make is amazing! Glad to see you got the old girl in shape for a flight again.
Just gorgeous! Can't wait for a new Kermie Cam flight.
At one time in the sixties Island Airlines In Port Clinton owned 3 of these. They flew them between the Lake Erie islands and the Lake Erie airport. They are building one by hand at the airport museum next to what is now called the Erie Ottawa airport.
Love the Trimotor. Thanks.
It's amazing that this plane will be 100 years old in just 7 more short years!
Looking at these is like being in a time machine back to ww2. (The very first TWA-Trans World Airlines airplane.)
Would love to fly in that plane!
sounds great.
My best wishes for a great new year ahead to all people around you helping fantasy flight become one of the bests in the world.
So cool
*Kermit Weeks = 1*
*Florida Mosquitoes = 0*
😊😊😊
Muito bom, parabéns!
Kermit is so cool 😎
11:40. There's that PBY again.
it sure is funny looking with 3 large motors sticking out and now cowling.
No new vids on this site, hope is well over their in sunny Florida
All is well. Taking care of other projects to start the new year. There will be a new archive clip this week.
And yet some how the mail was always ontime.
Sounds damn good :)
Triste recuerdo me trae.
En uno igual se mataron Carlos Gardel y sus compañeros.
Think about when it was built, it was the 787 of the day.
Did you take any video of flying it from Cal Pacific Airmotive to Florida and if so is it available to watch?
Wonder if the exhaust has anything to do w/it. The wing mounted come off the sides where the nose exits at the bottom. Oil can't collect in the center exhaust manifold like the ones on the wings.
did it have a lesser quality of fuel way back then did it provide better lubrication because of lead
The Tri motor over over at San Diego air and space museum there Machine was damaged in lis damaged in Las Vegas where it was housed during a windstorm and it blew upside down they brought it over to San Diego and repair it it is no in new Take a look OK
I've always wanted to know if eack cylinder head has its own carburetor or does each engine pack run on 1 carburetor???
One great big one on the back of the engine casing much cursing to get at it on some installations
Love this aircraft. About 5 years ago my wife bought me a flight for father's day on one of these amazing pieces of history. One of the best flights ever. Thanks for sharing this.
60 years ago my father bought me a ride in the right seat. Seeing this old girl really brought back a truly touch moment.
12 years ago ...I and my brother got a Ride...on Film ..Smiles all the Flight...and Eddies Air Ways jokes pre flight..
My dad bought a ride for me and my Brother back in 1970. The nick name for this Tri- Motor was the "Ten Goose".
The 20 minutes I had in-flight aboard a Tri-Motor are some of the most memorable of my life. I really felt like I had gone back in history.
Some day I promise go to know you my dear "Knight Kermit", I now a lot of pilot in the world, but YOU are the Best and more complete Human Pilot, seing by RUclips.
You search the adventure, you look for the planes, you find the pieces and join them with your experts, what an exciting job, I regret not being part of a human team like yours.
My father was a pilot and he instilled in me the love of airplanes, since I was little, I have been able to enjoy with him, his stories of youth, trying to fly in his Aeronca Champion 1945.
The history of the BF -108 is particularly close to me since I live in Chile, and I saw this plane fly in some incursion through Santiago in the years around 1968.
Years later we auctioned off a plane with my father complete a Mentor T-34.
Later we had a coup in 1973, and the plane was requisitioned by the militia.
I want to congratulate you Kermit not only for your videos so well made and explained. Currently
I am an Audiovisual Communicator and I work on TV. and that makes me appreciate the quality of your visual records over the years.
It is a luxury to preserve all the historical detail of each of your Planes so well maintained, and the meticulous work that this means.
Again I congratulate you Kermit and I hope that someone can always continue your incredible work with History and Love for airplanes.
Con mucho aprecio un saludo desde Chile. Gary González Piñeiro.
I watched this beautiful airplane almost crash on a foggy day in Watsonville CA... This red and white tri motor was coming in "at minimums" where the runway was obscured by increasing fog. Several attempts were made and then the need to get on the ground seemed to increase. On the next attempt to land the Try Motor Ford was too high, too slow and mid way down the runway. Everyone watching that day gasped in horror as the big plane began to drift back on its tail while it sickly sank toward the ground. Any normal airplane would have stalled and ended up in a ball with pieces scattered across the tarmac. All at once the sound of three firewalled engines filled the air and I witnessed this beauty right herself and continue flying as if a mighty hand had reached down and place the plane back in the sky. That is why they call this plane a legend, there is magic in that airframe.
Awesome description of that event - thanks.
Some time ago I came in to work and there was a Tri motor parked in bay 3 of the TWA LAX hanger. The aircraft was a Stout Bushmaster much newer then the this one unfortunately It was lost in an accident. TWA and that hanger are gone also.
I had my first airplane ride at 13 on this ship at Merced in 1966 at the airshow. My old man took me and had great stories about cruising the midwest in the depression in a 4at with wrights taking people fpr rides at county fairs.
Yeah cus all these planes were made to stall at 50-70 knots like a cessna. So the pilot was very lucky
My Dad (yes, my Dad) flew these back in the late 20s/early 30s out in the western states. He was an early air mail and very early airline pilot. Born in 1896, he left home in SC and headed for California to join the army and learn to fly. He ended up a flight instructor at the Presidio in S.F. under (then) Captain 'Hap" Arnold. Discharged in 1919, he rambled around until he started flying air mail up/down the west coast in the mid 1920s. He died in 1957, after a spectacular 41 year career in aviation. I was fortunate enough to fly on the 'City of Wichita' when it visited Venice (FL) a few years ago. A beautiful 20 minute flight aboard what seemed a big graceful bird soaring at 1100', doing about 80-90 mph. An unforgettable experience!!
the right carb is acting just like most of the carbs that came from S&T in Texas. I had 4 out of 5 that where set wrong from that shop!
My Uncle owned N 9651 during the 1960’s and 70’s, he Owned Mox-Air at the Santa Monica Airport where he kept it and where it was restored. It took a few years to do. He bought it from someone in Idaho at a private airport and got it running and flew it all the way back to Santa Monica. That was in 1961 or 1962. In June of 1967 I went to work for him out of high school. I was very lucky to be able to do a lot of work on the tri motor. At that time it was painted silver and blue. I also got to fly co- pilot with my uncle Mox all over Southern California from 67- 69, then again in 1972- 1973. After the military. All I can say is what a great experience, I will never forget!
Great story!
Hard to believe these are over 90 years old and still look and sound fantastic! A bit like a flying tool shed, but also, way ahead of it's time. These are in my top favorite planes.
My first flight in an airplane was in a Ford Tri-Motor that American Airlines had restored back in 1964. They had the plane at Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City along with their new 3 engine jet, the 727 to show them both to the public. My father was a commercial photographer and he photographed the event for American. I still have the press packet and photos of my brother and I in the cockpit and outside the plane. That plane is now hanging in the Smithsonian. I remember watching out the window as we took off, looking at the wheel struts and wondering if they were ever going to stop extending. I guess they have a pretty long travel. Great memories to see you have one restored and running.
That Tri-Motor had been an old AA airplane that the company found in Mexico. A family was living in it ! AA restored it (obviously) and it was flown around the US as you have noted. My father was an AA captain and some of his friends got to fly it.
Thanks Kermit! What an awesome piece of transportation history. We appreciate your dedication, time, money and effort to keep these wonderful examples of early flight, flying and preserved for future generations to enjoy. Good on you! 👍🏻
I got to fly right seat in a 5AT about three years ago here in Atlanta. A real thrill. I love the old planes. I love the new planes. I love all planes. And I love FoF. Thank you Kermit. Have a 2022 and stay safe.
Greetings from Kansas City, Missouri (former home of one of TWA's Maintenance Facilities and one of Howard Hughes' Office Facilities). I like your Cheater Bar, you use on the center engine (#2, correct?). @8:46... Love that Radial Exhaust Note! (oil and all) 😀 Yessir, she's a beauty! And... "Damn the Mosquito's; Full Speed Ahead!" (to amend the quote from US Navy Admiral David Farragut) 😀
Beautiful! Gonna date me....but for Gramps' birthday 3-5-28, Henry Ford gave his 1st Apprentice tour of Detroit area in his brand new model! Henry brought Grandson Henry II, and Gramps brought his Son of same name along w/members of The Purple Gang (as Gramps had new occupation). Fine time had by all including picnic lunch. On return my Dad got Ground Guy to take photo of Fords, Schmidts, other guests, & Pilots in front of plane w/his Brownie. '76 Henry II still had enlargement under glasstop desk!
Similar to the process I taught my 4 boys on starting the 10 year old Jeep Grand Cherokee V8 just yesterday ! NOT ! Times have changed ! Ugh ! Oil > Combustion>? Servicing ? they know nothing and do not want to learn ,,, I am a failure ! I guess I have millennials !
Absolutely LOVE the old Fords!!
Thanks, Kermit! And Happy New Year!
WOW... What a fine plane you have !....... next time I go to KOSH I'm taking the "Ride" on one of these for sure. Thank You Kermit.
What a lovely plane ! I'm building one for the moment...in 1/72 scale of course. For my dining room hangar. Happy new year Kermit !
I'd rather spend 4 1/2 days in this, opposed to 4 1/2 hours on today's airlines!
That goes for the C47 as well.
This reminds me of starting up my old shovelhead. A tap here, a movement there. If it isn't leaking oil somewhere, then it's time to add some.
Cessna Grand Caravan Executivo 208-B 🇳🇱 🇧🇷 🇳🇱
Absolutely fabulous aircraft. Thank you 😊
WOW! just amazing. It's getting harder to find original aircraft. Please keep it up.
It's amazing how FAA/government bureaucracy creates more drag than you'll ever see in the air.
Interesting, I have a Ford car since a few months that is just as old as this plane. A 1929 Ford model A Tudor Sedan.
How have I missed that Ford made airplanes at this time...
Beautiful old bird!! ( the plane, not kermit)..........
Absolutely timeless machine! I fell in love with the Ford Tri-Motor around the age of 8. It's great to see them in action, even if she didn't fly in this video. I'm looking forward to more of your videos on this aircraft!
"Some movie"...Temple of Doom! Great sequel, you did a hell of a job restoring, pretty sure Dr. Jones bailed out in an inflatable raft and Tri went into a mountside : )
Hello my commander
Good afternoon!!!
Aeronautical Greetings
I've been watching your aviation videos and I see the passion we have for our flying machines. My name is Nilson, I'm from Recife/PE in Brazil.
I finished my Theoretical Course and because of Covid-19, I didn't take the theoretical tests to start flying.
A hug. Good flights.
Sincerely
Nilson
Theorist's Student
Recife PE
Brazil.
I sat inside that Ford as a boy at the Watsonville, CA. Antique Fly-In. Q:What sounds better than Pratt & Whitney R-985? A: The sound of THREE! Please do a video when you fly it.
I have some photos from the TAT Ford Tri-Motor "City of San Fransisco" that crashed atop Mt. Taylor near Grants, New Mexico in Sept. 1929 in what was written as "The worst storm in years". Nobody survived the crash. Some of the wreckage still exists along with a small memorial.
Airplanes from the 20's through the 40's are the goats to this day. I would take this old tin bird over a jet any day (I'm 40 y/o)
I had a ride in a Ford Tri-Motor - I am old, When I was 8 -10 years old (would have been around 1960) we , family went to Detroit on vacation. Henry Ford Museum etc. You could buy a ticket and they took you up, short ride around the field. It was GREAT
Those fat wings grandmothers of the a380's.
Me gustan las aeronaves antiguas mi padre volaba entre los años 1935 y 1937 en los bi planos curtis Wright bi motores (Perú) tengo muchas anécdotas y fotos
Born and raised in N Idaho, the smoke jumpers headquarters/ school was in Missoula I think. I still remember tri-motors flying around the area in 50's and 60's typically orange wingtips for visibility.
Such a beautiful plane. Had the honors of seeing one up here in Casper Wyoming a few years ago and I was very impressed & surprised to see a piece of aviation history back in the air. Seeing yours so is awesome. Love to see that beautiful Catalina fly.
Catalina PBS?
@@tomasnokechtesledger1786 Pby Catalina
@@garybrummett6215 yeah, yeah
One sexy airplane right there. 🤙🏼😁 Thanks for sharing with us Kermit!
Back in the 50s and early 60s I remember riding in one of these from Marblehead Ohio to Put-in-Bay on Middle Bass Island Ohio. There was a regular Island service then.
JIM 🙂
that prop puller reminds me of the big candle snuffers they use in church ceremonies. lends an even more religious to the upcoming flight! "yeah though i fly through vast void above. i will fear no surly bonds. for a clamber aloft upon the reliability of ford!"
KERMIT, are you planning a 100th birthday party for the Tri-Motor (as an aircraft design, not yours in particular), in four years? That would be a great special event for FoF. I'd certainly pay money to attend.
I flew on the Tri-Motor back in 1972 from Port Clinton to Put-in-Bay. A couple weeks later it crashed in Lake Erie. Luckily, no one was killed.
Got to fly on the EAA Tri Motor years ago. Best $80 I ever spent!
Such a awesome experience that I will never forget! We also had the privilege of going inside the Tri Motor that is on display at San Diego Air and Space.
Not familiar with your channel but I find vintage anything interesting. However in watching this video I see you have a Catalina PBY, OMG, I love that plane.
That is the only Ford I like to work on! I grew up at Rockford when John Lock had N414H hoping rides! Fond memories!
Yep- on the pull through, it won't take but one ungrounded mag to break your arm or worse !! Mail routes.... wouldn't you love to be over the Grand Canyon in the dead of winter , listening for the first fouled plug in one of those cranky things ??
first of all I love your videos back in the mid 70's I had service call at the Shell refueling service at the Las Vegas airport while there a trimotor landed, it was unrestored with the faded logo of a defunct airline showing it also had few shiny skin patch panels. sound at all familiar? thanks, Brad Oman
Given the visual similarities with junkers and Heinkel tri motors of the time, what are the chances of some design cross pollination between Henry Ford and his good friends among the Nazi regime? Thoughts and comments?
I know some of the newer engines run smokeless oil . A friend worked for a very short time for a shister who had a car dealership. They would buy cars that smoked ,change the oil and now they did not smoke . The engine that’s burning oil that they could see. Then sell it , and nice old Planes you got there. Be safe Happy New Year.
Hard life huh Kermit? She's beautiful.
How about adding a red flag to that tail lock. I remember when a Ford Trimotor crashed because they forgot to remove that tail lock.
What a priceless great Video again - the scene being perfectly set by two other fine older still extremly fine looking Ladies, the PBY and the C-47, hopefully all of them will be there again together some time in the future !
Love the tri-motor. been in 2 so far. Was bummed that you didn't do a kermie cam though. Hope you got footage of the 4 1/2 day trip back to florida. Would love to see that trip.
loved this video, first time seeing a tri motor run up, taxi etc. nice c-47, and pby, wow. thank you for this video. radials are music, wished i lived close by!
I was always taught to pull them thru backwards, in case of hydraulic lock. I noticed you pulled forward. Does it make a difference?
Thank you sir...by you we almost fly these birds...what a beautifull machine....
I got a ride once at KRFD during an airshow back in the early to mid 1980's I can still remember that when I was 12 or 13 years young
Such a beautiful aeroplane! One day I’m going to come to Florida and I’m going to come visit you and say hello.
There is a very Early John Wayne movie where he plays a tri motor Captain.
I looked up the N number and found it later crashed into a mountain in South America.
Most Fords start up like that, don't they? Lol. It's a joke. Don't get your panties in a bunch. That thing checks all the cool boxes.
I love it, Remain me my Military Service in 1955
when you put in the rudder stop it reminded me of the near fatal crash at Fullerton calif airport air show several years ago. in the 1980s Bushmaster ford trimotor replica, the pilot forgot to remove the rudder stop. oh! the pilots first friend the check list in and the walk around.
Could almost smell the oil and avgas. Maybe get to experience it in person some day.
I did not know my Push Mower has a Radial Engine. "Stratton" must be short, for "Briggsradial."
A video of the interior and cockpit would be great as well! WOW! I just saw your video collection. Massive!
Love your videos with all your living aviation history! A.I.J. AOCS Class 3973
I'm not blaming the younger generation with this comment, but who will take care of these beauties when you all retire? It appears very few younger people are interested in saving these old airplanes.
It was Harrison Ford fault to make the right engine smoke so bad... look at the sunset scene, all that smoke coming out!!