Stinson L-1 - Kermie Cam - Part 2 - The Flight 

As a pilot an A&P ,I do love you showing all you do with planes that I would never fly, but you make it easier to dream.

Thanks for all that you have done to save the old planes.

Very Good Kermit....!!! I Didn't know that you are a great pilot ever...also you are an aircraft keeper....and more .....Congrats..!!! you are my hero......keep going....I will follow you forever...!

Sitting here with my 4 month old son, watching every second of this wonderful video... pure joy. Only thing better will be when he comes flying with me. Thanks, Kermit!

He was having fun, new what he was doing

Great flight as usual. Love watchin you fly the old planes around just wish I could be with ya.

Excellent instructive video, Kermit! The text and hand gestures really helped understand what you were doing. Thanks! Love the L1.

Excellent film footage and sound. Great commentary.

Love that airplane!

Great bush pilot right there!. I loved it kermie, thanks

Fantastic, thanks so much.

Great flight Mr. Weeks!

What a lovable old Bird! Thanks Kermit!

Great Cam positioning etc!

I understood all the instrument sign language, like it. In the pattern at your own place gotta be fun! Yea, yea, yea, yea, yeaaah.

Great, thanks for sharing!

Thanks, Kermit. What a plane.

Regarding the 45° AOA and the 70% (0.7) in part I, Kermit was spot on, sine of 45° is 0.707 (1/square root of 2). I would very much like another P-51 (B or D) Kermit Cam also possibly also with a second hooked cam in the cockpit, and showing what she goes speed wise at continuos power (46" and 2600 RPM) the setup in this was just marvelous, the thing with oil collecting in the Cyls was also very enlightening. As always the airplane's fantastic restoration is just breathtaking.

It doesn't matter how many years of flying I had, I always felt blessed to be up there and your videos bring that feeling right back again. Thanks so much for sharing.

That's what you call a "Flying Machine". Magnificently presented by Kermit.

Excellent videos, thank you!

Great video. enjoyed it very much thank you.

Thanks so much for letting me go with you

So great to see the Stinson back in the air!

Thanks for preserving this clattering, maintenance heavy radial engined piece of history. Each year we get further away from this era and it is great to see the way things actually were.

SUPERB!! KERMIT is the Queen of the UK!! Kermit will still be flying in a 100 years!

great vid...many thanks for the ride

Kermie cams are the best, the amount of knowledge stored in your head to get your beautiful aircraft into the air, be it they all require the same things, every bird is different in it's layout. Kudos to you, Kermit. Well done and thank you very much!

Thanks for the ride-along. All the best with whatever the hurricane brings across central Florida.

Unique video history from Kermie and technique for the pilots of the future , can't say enough good words to you Kermit.

Very good , thank you.

5:33 - you can see the slats closing. Fantastic explanations, camera work, and unrushed presentations, as usual. I'm a pilot and I love always learning all sorts of new bits and pieces about things that "we others" would never learn or see from these people. Pointing at things while on the ground, and in the air, while constantly talking about it makes all the difference. Thanks again! Zenith 701 & ASW19 maniac & Weeks junkie

@Kermit Weeks Thanks for another great video Mr. Weeks. Thanks for sharing your fun with us!

Awesome 😎

Well. I can only HOPE for the Future of vintage Aircraft. There is someone as Caring Knowledgeable and selfless as Kermit willing to keep the spirit of Everything he has worked so hard for Going after he is gone. This man is a living legend. Thank you for bringing us a piece of history 1 flight at a time

Never a dull day at FOF, Kermie Cams are the best thing on RU-vid. Great film and thanks for posting.

Stay safe Kermit.

Love your vids, Mr. Weeks.

My driving lessons were never this exciting! Hope the storm misses and the only thing that l found scarey were those legs!!😂Thanks Kermit.

I enjoyed that flight as much as you did Kermit ! what a machine the Vultee Vigiliant is ( RAF name on those lease lend examples we had ) ,you were working hard on those enormous flaps and I think once you have flown this wonderful beast of a machine a few times then you will be landing it in a few feet,the immaculate restoration is evident and the sound of that radial music to my ears,you say long grass but I bet these have taken off on far worse makeshift runways,it seems heavier on the controls than a Storch but I would imagine on a cross country flight would trim out nicely to ease pilot handling. So the slats come out automatically at low speeds and seem to really grab the airflow around the leading edge,this really is a belt and braces AOP machine built to do a specific job,a rare bird that I know you will continue to enjoy and look after,next time that you go to see your Lockheed Vega restoration why not use this as your taxi !

Thank you

Those pesky storms concern me,batten down the hatches at Fantasy of Flight your collection is priceless,and please everyone in the area look after yourselves.

Great ride-along! Thanks!

I didn't know who you were until 2001 when I was driving past Fantasy of Flight. I stopped and enjoyed a wonderful day of aviation. Keep doing these videos, they educate us terrifically. Thank you!

Big thanks for sharing all of this with us ! Always great !! Thank you !!

Thanks for the ride along! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! FYI, I'll be saying a few prayers this weekend for the hurricane to pass over you! You sure don't need anymore storm stories! GL & God's speed!

hope the storm doesn't mess with the plane this time be safe and hope to see everything o.k. next video, we enjoy them greatly kip

One of the coolest starter sounds in all of aviation.

Absolutely amazing. You know I saw a red stimson at Selsy gliding club (UK) in 1967. Was used as a glider tug. An aircraft with an amazing history. Thanks for the flight, Kermit.

Great side angle shot Kermit! :-]. And you have a Storch as well..... A Westland Lysander would make a great trio!

Like I said in Pt1, I was never a fan of the looks of this plane but thanks to this I have actually grown to think that it really IS a pretty snappy little thing. Thanks Kermit!

A beautiful plane .... thanks for this great tour and flight. greetings from Germany✌

Outstanding aircraft...first time I actually saw an L-1 fly!

Great, informative ride along as always Kermit! Share the sentiment of many that you, family and all associated with FOF weather the storm without incident. Best wishes!

Great flight thanks for taking me along.

Very Nice . . . Bob

How cool would it be to be living close to you, sitting out the back chugging on a couple of coldies and hearing you coming...Then seeing whatever you are flying and thinking, yep that man is in his element!!

I believe the hand signals with captions may be the best demonstration of the shifting attention inside the cockpit I have ever seen. Nice flying. Looks to me like you've been taking her up everyday.

Thanks! Please keep them coming...

Reminds me of flying in a Dehaviland Caribou no frills flying in Vietnam. Noisy breezy and dusty. Best ride ever.

É muito relaxante ver esse vídeo! 😍 🇧🇷

Was smiling the whole time. Watching here from the Philippines.

Enjoyed that!

Great ole bird

You were busy on this flight giving us hand signals and demonstrating instruments and slats. Very good.

I so wanna be Kermit when I grow up.

Wow! Just for an instant with your helmet cam I caught the aroma of a hot radial engine. A radial has its own particular aroma.

Impressed with the relaxed way that you deal with the workload. I realize that some instruments are duplicated on other aircraft, but even so.

I wish I was there for a ride. A real hands on aircraft. One on my first aircraft to work on was a stearman Many years ago as well as a Beech-18. I enjoyed working on them.

Nice

I used to gaze up and watch the C-119's flying over our house, toward the southwest and Dayton, ( Wright Pat ) and dream about what it would be like! When you waved down to the traffic below, some kid started gleefully telling his Mom and Dad, " There really was a man in that plane that waved at me...I know what I saw!" And then that's when the Airfoils start sticking out the windows and the imagination begins! Bravo Sir, and here's another salute to you for a fine flight! Poor Connie, grazing at the end of the strip and watching as her little brothers hop up from the ground and take to the air where she once was the Queen! Hey Kermit....I just thought of something that would be really cool. That is if you sat down with a glass of N n' J and made a video of you telling of some of your meetings of the famous flyer's you have met over the years! would love to hear em'!

Thanks Kermit. That was very interesting. Loved it.

Engine sounds real sweet. Super flight. Thanks Kermit. Hope you'll get everything tied down and manage to get thru this damn hurricane coming.

Kermit its beautiful and the sound was so fine i had to crank it up. She's a winner.

Thanks for sharing this. Really enjoy the show.

Been waiting for part 2, thanks for taking us along!

Lovely flight in a fine aircraft. The idling issue reminded me of when a car of mine had a dirty "idle air control valve" and used to switch-off at junctions.

A great old plane!

Enjoyed this very much, Thank You!

Enjoyed very much, sir, thanks for doing these videos!

That was great! Thanks Kermit!

Love it ! ... Florida is a flat as the Fens.

I live 5 minutes away from fantasy of flight, and I’d love to meet you and interview you for my school blog!

good video

nice video, love the strut cam to watch the slats work

Mr. Weeks sir. I am just a factory worker building farm machinery in Holland Mi. I own not a single airplane.....Probobly never will..is it ok with you if i live my dreams through you and your videos. They are excellent and look forward to every one....like i do Plannnne Savvvverrrrs from Mikey Mc Bryan. Mr weeks....keep.them coming. When.and if i back to Florida again I WILL stop and see your museum. Found out 8 years ago at 40 i should have made aviation my livelihood instead of designing transplanters for agriculture.

Please be safe with the weather that appears to be coming your way!!

I'd love to see a STOL competition of this plane against your Fieseler Storch.

Yeah

Add some more quarters go again. Thanks for the flight.

This video reminds me the smell of airplanes, such a great mix of oil, metal, fuel, and old plane smell!

I had a lovely afternoon at kermit's Fantasy of Flight a while ago - sadly i ran out of gas on my way there - shpuld have been a whole day of fun

That was so cool! Thank you.

Hope that Dorian doesn't cause any heavy damage when it comes through Best of luck !!

Loved it! Good luck with Dorian. Maybe she'll turn and go somewhere else, like back out to sea.

Kermit, you do such a great job explaining everything you are doing with the controls, I almost feel I could fly, ( not really) thaks for the ride.

Thank you Mr Weeks for an interesting flight on this nice, light aircraft such as the S. L-1. Just wondering if the windshield is plexiglass? Saludos from Uruguay.

POV camera = best camera angle.

Did they do all these checks back in the day? Something tells me for the most part they would grip and rip.

I'm sure you've got all the preparations done for Dorian, but still, 'Stay safe y'all'.