Waco YMF-5 - Flight Home Begins - Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Come along as I do some final prep work on the Waco YMF-5 airplane, getting ready for the big cross country flight to Fantasy of Flight.
If you remember, back in November of 2019 I went to the Cottonwood airport in Arizona to pick up a Waco YMF-5 airplane that I had my eye on for a long time. I was finally able to work out a deal and purchase the plane. I was out at Cottonwood to do an inspection, test flight, and other preparations to me flying it to its new home at Fantasy of Flight in Florida. Check out this beautiful plane, and the start to the big journey back to its new home.
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I lived in Arizona for 27 years and enjoyed seeing it again from your perspective. An incredible view, a truly classic aircraft and a very well done video by a man who shares his passion of aviation freely. Thank you, Kermit.
Went to school at NAU, such great memories of that area.... and much less populated in the early 80's. Great shots Kermit!
Great videos Kermit.
Seat and pants aviation, there’s nothing more rewarding. Reminiscing the thirties barnstorming era. Love it!
Great stuff Kermit !
Watched the series. Thanks for doing this.
What a freedom to adventure!
A Beautiful Airplane for the "Pilot of Pilots". The Red Baron of Orlampa homeward bound. Too cool! An absolutely outstanding video. Not so very unlike all of your RUclips vids! I get all misty just watching. RUM! I need Rum, Boys!
I’ve been to Phoenix, Sedona and Flagstaff. Having departed ice and snow near Indianapolis the day before the temps in the 70’s at Phoenix were most welcome. Barrett-Jackson had some beautiful old cars to auction off and an Arabian horse show at Scottsdale was impressive. However, the “beautiful???”, red rocks of Sedona left me cold. Waste land. It must be true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Flagstaff had a couple inches of snow on the ground, but still with mild temps.
Thank you Mr. Weeks, yet another well made and very informative video, I'm looking forward to part 4 and like another subscriber said "the down side is they keep ending"
Thanks again.
This moved me, i just like it.
The only problem with these video's is that they end!
Just you and your plane.
The best part of the day....
Fuck yeah, what a wonderful journey, so much cooler than shipping it back to Florida. Can't wait for the rest of the trip.
This brought back some great memories. In November 2018 after spending a week with Budd Davisson getting his Pitts Special training in Scottsdale, my wife and I pointed our rented Mustang GT convertible north along Hwy 17 to Prescott, sitting in with old friends at a blues jam at the Windsock Lounge. The next day we visited Jerome before heading to Sedona, having dinner at the airport's Mesa Grill. We left early the next morning and headed south through the National Forests all the way down to Tucson, where we eventually toured the Pima Air and Space Museum and Kitt Peak before heading back to Phoenix to depart back to Michigan. I have videos on my RUclips channel covering the last day of flying with Budd, The Prescott Jam and a time lapse travel video of the Sedona to Tucson Run. Thanks for reminding me just how wonderful that trip was. It will be a future destination in the RV-8.
😎👍i got to ride in one like that 3 days in a row as a kid. in the late 50's? or early 60's?
When EAA flyin was in Rockford Ill
airport, my dad would drop me off on his way to work and pick me up after work all that week. i got to ride in a Red Waco one like that 3
Days in a row .... The pilot knew a relative of our family, Uncle Machesney ran an old grass Field airport i lived next to ,North of the city. Also at the Fly in, 1 day i got to ride in a Custom painted white n yellom P51 mustang, another pilot knew my uncle also. The pilot was well known, he did airshows with it. It had been modified for 2 small wingtip tanks, and x seat was behind pilot where old Radios used to be. Being a
Kid i had plenty of room.😂
Good ole days. Your site is my #1
Fav site.🙌 In my 70s now my home is still full of WW1&2 Models 😁👍
I’d sign up for that flying school Kermit.
I won't - bastards nicked my medical! :'-(
I would join from Germany if I am allowed to travel in the USA^^
I had a similar transponder in my 35 model bonanza. Don't remember the model. It blew through encoders. I swapped out the transponder after the second encoder failure in 3 years. That's a great area. I used to fly the family up to Airport Mesa in Sedona on the weekend in summers. My wife and I got married up on the Mesa. It's a great place to fly.
I'm looking for a video here at the house from circa 1992. Believe yours is the same plane my wife and I took a ride in while visiting the Sedona area. I remember it was red, but then I've had rides in two other red ones, both in Hawaii many years ago. Sedona tours had a new white Waco at the time that they had just brought in from the factory. Thanks for keeping this one alive.
Found a photo from 23 yrs ago. It's the same plane! Got a picture of the white one as well.
As always, another superb Video. Thank You, Kermit.
Livin' the dream
Can’t wait to watch the rest of this and follow along
Casa Grande... brings back good memories of when the company I worked for set up and demonstrated an airship at the Eloy airpark. Skydive Arizona site, actually. We got a lot of strange looks as we assembled a 62 foot diameter spherical airship decked out as a soccer ball. We had fun in our spare time kicking up dust in the desert, watching the skydivers and playing with the occasional scorpion. FUN times! Yet, I digress. That was a very enjoyable video, Kermit. Thank you!
EDIT to add: The Bent Prop Saloon was awesome!!!
Truly an epic adventure.
I love what you’re talking about with the school! I’m 15 and have a huge passion for aviation, I’ve flown rc planes for about 6 years and flying full scale for about 4 years (rotary and fixed wing) I’ve flown Hughes 500s, Pitts, Schweizer and a couple of other things like a Fouga Magister CM.170. I really want to come to your museum and see everything! I’ll be in that class the day it starts!
Power of analog technology.
Great video Kermit! Wish you could have come north to Kanab, UT on your trip. We are just on the other side of the Grand Canyon from Sedona. I hop rides in our Waco YMF-5, serial #003 here in Kanab. I bought my Waco from the late Ron Alexander at Peachstate Aerodrome there south of Atlanta and flew it cross country back to home. Great airplanes!
Awww . . . there was room at the inn for the Waco
Kermie knows how to have fun. Naked in Jamaica 👍🏼👍🏼😎✌🏻✌🏻
Wow, great content.
Thanks!
I'm loving it. Amazing reporting and video.
Great video; brought back some great memories when you mentioned I-17. I went to NAU on a baseball scholarship and we'd play our home games down in Phoenix the first 2 months of the season. Like clockwork I'd always get a nosebleed going past Camp Verde; coming down from 7,300 feet in Flag.
Beautiful flight Kermit!
I took off from a grass strip out in the boonies. Just after take off I lost my airspeed indicator in the Pitts. I had no other source to use. Needless to say I made it back ok ….a little fast but a long runway way was Very Very helpful
The wires are good unless someone moves them around. Beautiful Bird. Great footage. Thanks.
Lovley vid!
At A Boy , Kermit !
Hi Kermit. I've been following you for a long time and could possibly be your biggest fan? I have always loved your passion and dedication to aviation (just for it's own sake) and admire your collection. If you are serious about a ""by feel" flight school, I'd be honoured to attend if I could. I lok forward to going to Fantasy of Flight one day. Thanks for sharing this video of such a remarkable and beautiful airplane with us. Trevor, Canada
Beautiful stuff Yes be safe Kermit, COOL RED AVION 1
4:49 - Kermit, I've always wanted to learn to fly. I never got the chance, though. I'm ALMOST your age (63 now). If I'm not too old when you open that school, I want a spot in the first class, IF you include classes for beginners (to learn the right way from the very beginning). I only live about 40 minutes from FoF (near USF in Lutz/Tampa area), so no biggie for the commute. ;)
You're never too old to try anything! Light that Spark Within!
Kermit please do a video on your Marauder
Such a veeery nice trip You gave us! The view over Your homeland is sooo BEAUTIFUL ❤
Thank You VERY much Kermit 👍🌹
PS...
Sad to hear You telling us that they not educate Pilots for The Old School Of Flying... 😟
Just "ask any pilot", am I right? Nice choice Kermit!
A really beautiful aircraft and stunning scenery - I live in Cape Town, South Africa and was lucky to visit Sedona way back in 1992. Agree with your observations on the digital Pilot era Kermit. I am 60 years old and spent many years flying Gliders - In my personal opinion, based on my observations flying in tandem Gliders with qualified Pilots who had no previous gliding experience, Glider Pilots develop flying skills at an early stage which many qualified "Digital Era" Fixed wing Pilots lack today. I love your channel, thanks for the video can't wait for Part 3.
I’m happy you got a new airplane for your collection. I’m bummed I never got a chance to get a ride over Sedona in a biplane. I saw a few years ago that I could take a ride. I just didn’t get around to doing it. I guess I will need to learn how to fly so I can rent an airplane and buzz over Sedona.
Kermit, those red rock formations soaring hundreds of feet into the sky are sediment that formed beneath fathoms of water eons ago. Imagine that!
perfect
At 5:05, I think the term you are looking for are “children of the magenta line”. I heard that from my buddy, and it has a ring to it! Lol
Looks like my Mooney in the Avionics Shops hanger
What a great adventure. So you navigated by following a road? That's a true IFR plan, as in I Follow Roads. :-D Looking forward to the next installment and the walk through of that PB4Y-2.
It is nice country, back in Oct. 2013 I helped drive back my friend's vintage '66 Corsa Corvair convertible from Cottonwood! (gotta put the exclamation mark in) to central Ontario Canada. Rare car, 4 speed and factory air, but the motor is in the wrong end.
I know Mr. Weeks knows everybody and everybody knows Kermit, but while waiting for the avionics to be debugged, did you think of calling Bob DeFord and checking out his homebuilt Spitfire? Cool machine.
Great preview of the Gosshawk operation. What a teaser.
Never did get a chance to hug one of those big cacti though...
I sure wish we could see Kermit fly his Weeks Solution today
or again at least. 👏
One of my biggest dreams is to have pilot license and fly my own plane one day. I am not a young man anymore and the dream is becoming just a dream.
You're never to old to pursue your passion. Don't give up on that dream.
The only way to travel cross country
Well, there's also the U-Haul truck with the S.P.A.D. in the back.
You Are Da' Bomb Kerm..!
well theyre a happy bunch arent they.... game faces everyone !
Inverted spins. More advanced to recover from but with proper technique possible with adequate altitude. Become familiar with all stall regimes of the airframe.
Smooth throttle management to avoid engine trouble.
Eddie Rickenbacker had to come down from altitude occasionally to warm up.
Only the clothes he wore and leather helmet googles and scarf for warmth.
Spad XIII “ all I learned I learned from Luftbery” .
Raoul Luftbery, Chamalières France 🇫🇷 .
I hope you fly over Pinal Airpark in the next video. Home of Evergreen, and the last Delta 747-400.
Kermit, I just found an old war film with “cripes amighty 3rd” in it. I wasn’t sure if you knew there was footage of the original plane out there
Sad to see it leave Arizona.
Hello Kermit,
I tried to order your rum but I live in a state that doesnt allow shipment of alcohol into the state, I was so looking forward to trying your rum.
Can you ship it to someone you know in a neighboring state and pick it up?
I didnt about that my son lives in Ind maybe I can ship it to him, thank you for the suggestion.
Beautiful airplane and I think I met you at a air show if Im not mistaking
I was reading an article today about the Lufthansa Connie’s. Apparently they spent 150 million on restoration in Auburn Maine. Disassembled the plane to ship to Germany where it sits in pieces. I have seen 4 Connie’s in my life yours and the three in Auburn Maine sad to hear of the plane just sitting there.
Kevin Reed The Lufthansa Connie they tried to get airworthy again will not fly anymore. I read that - to get her transported to Germany - they cut the wingspar. So if they decide to put her together it will be a static museum exhibit. Very sad they were not able to get her airworthy and certified.
Great video!
Cheers from a real pilot ;) haha
i hear you kermie im 63 my dad had a stearman growing up and a j3 after school i got married worked for the government now im just going for my light sport i had boats and dunebuggys quads that was all for the kids flying is my passion its really expensive im trying though i was almost killed saving a girls life on the side of the road so im on disability and can only take one lesson a month but im doing it
Kermit. I have a drink for you. Reggae Rum Punch
Ingredients: 2 ounces Jamaican rum, 2 ounces pineapple juice, 2 tablespoons orange marmalade, 1 ounce strawberry syrup, .5 ounces lime juice
Wjat will be the first peice of crap to be removed? It was interesting hear that the test rig uses valves.
👍👍👍
i saw this airplane fly at capital city airport in lansing michigan when it was new
TSA once searched my carry on and found my copy of Stick and Rudder and were very concerned... like “do you wanna fly a big jet today?” Ugh..
Todd Teagarden You shoukd have replied, why yes I do. What are the chances both pilots will have the fish on this flight😁
Plus this wasn’t Bogata International or anything.. this was Raleigh-Durham!
Count me in to teach at the stick and rudder school.
What’s that colored paper thing you are looking at with all the lines on it? 🤔
Kermit, youre next job will leatn drones etc.
Great vid Kermit, what determines how many blades that are on a propeller, some have 2, 3, 4 and more? Thanks.
Engine power.
Extreme Koolness thanks
Ok great.. Another great video sir........so you never seen these avionics in any of your other 135 aircraft........really._?
No air speed indicator? Can they give you a ticket for that?
What year was this WACO built?
Hey Kermit,,, why not check out Ezell Aviation in Breckinridge, TX. Those guys have rebuilt Many warbirds. Real nice folks.
Us electronics guys gots to know ... what was wrong with the transponder?
Kermit - if you seriously want to teach real seat of the pants flying skills then you might want to include gliding in the program.
“...until we rebuild it.” Good grief. 🙄
Where do we find your favorite libation I have look here in Florida and can't find it?
You can find it at Jensen's Liquors in Miami, and a couple of locations in Central Florida. Locations and addresses are on my Naked in Jamaica website.
nakedinjamaica.com/buy.html
@@KermitWeeks444 thanks! Will pick up a bottle soon!
Digital technology has its benefits, but it is undoing the world I came up in. it's dehumanizing humanity.
What type of oil would that engine use?
It is ok kermit. I can drive 4 times that in a day.....and Mike petey can make a mold and 2.carbon parts from it in that time........and.thats ok i.aint 50 anymore either. Lol.
8 hours bottle to throttle Kermster.
Will Kermit’s flight school have a requirement for long hair and a moustache?
To be rich..
Kermit, You and I are about the same age. I used to have an airplane at Richards Field and during Hurricane Andrew in 1992, I went to Tamiami to help you arrange things (with a few other people from EAA Chapter 37) at your museum. At the beginning of this video you mentioned that flight schools are teaching more UAV than private pilots and you are so right! It is kind of sad... 😔 You have been an inspiration to me and to many others and I consider you to be the Pilot of Pilots. I then moved to Utah and I fly a biplane that I built and a Cessna 120. I have watched pretty much all your videos and have enjoyed them very much. I am honored to have met you and please keep inspiring other people.
I flew in and out of Richard's Field a few times. I remember someone had an OX-5 powered Travel Air and someone else had a Tiger Moth.
I'm another Richards Field Alumni. I was getting tail dragger time in a J-3 over there. The airplane's owner and I landed and parked the airplane and an Extra 300 flew over the field. It comes in to land and taxis over to us. The hood goes back, and it was Kermit! He talked to us for a few minutes and took off. That was pretty cool. I had an old Ercoupe that I kept at Tamiami. I was landing one afternoon and Kermit was landing off to my right, on the grass, in his Jenny. This was all pre-Andrews, of course. I'm in your age group, btw. Turned 68 in April.
What Jay Leno is to Autos you Kermit Weeks are to Aeroplane's.
Thanks for taking us along Kermit! Unforgetable stuff!
4:48 "One day I wanna create a school that is from pilots to flyers". I'm 60 years, and I have been fortunate to learn to fly from real flyers. Most pilots rely on artificial feedback from computers when they "fly". Yes, we need to educate flyers again!
Appreciating aircraft for the history they represent!!
Living in the Verde Valley and having watched it fly overhead for years, I will truly miss this airplane. However, I'm thrilled that it will be in good hands.
Can't wait to see your view across TEXAS as you fly home.
Kermit, how are you ever going to learn to fly if you keep buying aeroplanes?
mr. Kermit this one GREAT video and beautifu photos, it is like Richard Bach Biplane book!
Interesting photo of FW-190F at GossHawk, how far are they from the first flight of this beautiful plane, and will she wear her original white 1 dress?
Kermit, what a beautiful airplane, i could look at that all day long.
If you have a school one day and it's not outrageously expensive I'd love to do it. Always wanted to learn to fly
The best time to learn to fly is yesterday. The second best time is today! Go book a demo flight!