planes, Planes, PLANES! - Military Aviation Museum - "Kermie Cam" Visit - Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- OK, Gang, I recently got the chance to visit Jerry Yegan's Military Aviation Museum in Virginia, and here’s Part 1 of 2 of a great tour of the collection with Keegan Chetwynd, showing a lot of similarities in interest and design with Fantasy of Flight! Enjoy!
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Kermit cracks me up. He visits a museum and as he looks at different airplanes he responds, I’ve got one, I’ve got one, I’ve got three, etc. And he’s flown most of them! He’s the GOAT.
Yes he is!! I LOVE IT!! 👍😎👍
Could learn to be a little more humble and not one up ⬆️ every time
@@lancairw867 BRO!! You allegedly came here to enjoy aviation videos--but instead came here with hurt feelings because Kermit likes to talk. Are you sure you’re an aviation enthusiast or a Chinese Troll Bot????? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thee best airshow I’ve been to in 40 years of being a living historian. The grass strip and the proximity to the crowd is undeniable, they are right there. You don’t need any zoom lens to see them in action and they have variety to boot.
that was fun!
Glad he shares his amazing life with us.
Neat cant wait for part two.
Awesome 👍😎
Hey Kermit is the Fantasy of flight place ok after Hurricane Milton?.
Got it,got it,got it, need it, got it!
Thank God somebody is keeping these aircraft going! Private collections are the only people that allow us to see the aircraft in flight.
Espetacular 🌟
Thank you for this Kermie Cam of MAM. I really enjoyed the tour, as one can see the planes in the hangar not shown regularly on videos of MAM. Thanks to Keegan as well!
Can‘t wait for part 2.
13:30...the F4U-4 and F4U-7 had the single "chin" intakes at the bottom front of the cowling, and the F4U-5 had the 2 intakes at approximately the 4 o'clock and 8 o'clock positions on the front of the cowl..the AU-1 had the bulges on the cowl for the F4U-5 type intake, but lacked the actual openings for the scoops...I always liked the F4U-1, 1-A,and 1-D cowls the best, they had a "purer", uncluttered look to them....
Great video, Fabulous museum
That was a nice video enjoy it very much keep on flying😅
Thank you Kermit for the tour. Looking forward to part 2.
Just wonderful! Start to finish! Thank you!
Thanks for the tour, really enjoyed it.
Back in 2009, I built a P-51 pedal plane that was painted up as "Double Trouble Two". I had reached out to the Military Aviation Musuem, and a few weeks went by, and they called me up and honored a request to do a photo shoot with the pedal plane and the real-deal P-51. Sidebar, Double Trouble Two was a fixture in airshows growing up in New England, it was a staple as it was even owned by the at one time mayor of Nashua, NH, Don Davidson.
If you cruise the gift shop, which last time I did was in 2012, the picture is still up there. If you Google "P-51 Pedal Plane" you can likely still see it.
I love the MAM's collection.
Must be nice. Got one of those, 3 of those etc.
glad someone has the will and to collect and preserve these.
Love the T-28. One of my favorite RC planes right fly.
My good friend Lynn Ritger, who has written several books on the Bf 109 series, was a consultant on the restoration and paint scheme on the MAM Bf 109G-4 in Quaet-Faslem's markings and it is a beauty to behold.
Lynn is a top guy and really knows the Bf 109. Looking forward to his new book.
If Kermit ensures Lynn Ritger’s help with the paint scheme of his Bf 109, he will have THE expert to go to on board. IIRC he also was instrumental in the paint scheme of the one made by Midwest Aero Restorations for Dr. Bruce Winter.
@@darkredvan He certainly knows his paint schemes. We recently had a long chat about Bf 109V-14 D-ISLU. That's one colour scheme that's tough to decipher. The exact shade of red will probably remain elusive.
Interesting collection. 🫡
Thanks for sharing these with us Kermit. Looking forward to part II.
Thanks for the video Kermit and Keegan.
Great great tour. Looking forward to part two. They have some wonderful aircraft in there collection. Surprised at the number flying.
Great collection and super people.
Thanks Kermit.
Retired Air Force veteran
We got to attend this year’s Warbirds Over the Beach. Decent show. What was truly amazing was the buzz bomb demo. Gave me goosebumps. I couldn’t imagine hearing one during the war. Definitely a sound I’ll never forget. It is a great collection and definitely reminded me of Fantasy of Flight, and now I know why.
Nice job on that one. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The kid giving the tour reminds me of Brandt from the Big Lebowski
Great video, thank you.
Spot on with the reason for the Tiger Moth's wing shift, the original DH-60T was difficult to exit in a hurry with a parachute and the engineering design of the DH-82 was pretty much done in a shed with a DH-60T airframe and a hacksaw - the lower wings were swept back slightly more by shortening the rear spar to fine tune the CG. After 70 odd DH-82s had been built, they figured the wingtips were a bit close to the ground and shortened the interplane struts to give more clearance - et voila!, the DH-82A which we all know and love!
Exactly. Sweden got their 82s before they had shortened the interplane struts. Can't remember if they got spin strakes and slats on the Swedish, but the Danish 82s didn't have them.
@@leifvejby8023 Still a DH-82 flying in Sweden, SE-ADF I think - the oldest survivor. I had the oldest DH-82A flying over my house the other day, G-ACDA, though it's been rebuilt once or twice.
@@Hooligan-F8F Thanks! I happened to see one a Danish survivor the other day - untill then I believed they all had slats and strakes. I asked about it, but nobody knew. I later found a couple of prewar photos from Lundtofte, and no strakes and slats.
They put the dinosaurs out to make the older planes feel at home.
Cool! I haven't been there since 2014. It's kinda off the beaten path. In fact I nearly got forced off a narrow road close to the museum by a truck!
They have a lot of great aircraft.
When I was a kid in the early 70's I got to climb all over that FM-2 at it's home field when it was owned by Lex DuPont. It was the first real warbird I got to examine. I didn't realize it was the same airframe when I saw it at MAM.
I was born nearby in VA while my dad was in the NAVY. He was in aviation training but not a flight crew. He once said that he nearly opted for a crew position in flying boats. I said,"wait, aren't you afraid of flying?". He said,"Sure am, but as a teenager I was too stupid to know better"😂
Thanks Kermit!
korean war & vietnam war military prop planes are the ultimate prop planes,best ever made!
Amphicar, drives like a boat on the land and like a car on the water.
Awsome vid Kermy.
I love your videos!
Kermit, how did you weather the storm and in the future check check for smudges on your camera lenses😂
This is wonderful, did not know the situation with the old soviet birds was like that. The Chaika holds a special place in my heart, but I wonder if there are any LaGG 3 in an air worthy safe state? I moved to the far north in Sweden, there are no museums nearby, but instead there are J39 Gripens in training treating my ears to wonderful thunderous roars from afar - and the NIMBYs have no power here!
9:04 Correct...the FM-2 was based on the XF4F-8 Wildcat, which featured a Wright R-1820 9 cylinder radial of some 1350 HP or so, in place of the P&W R-1830 14 cylinder radial of some 1200 HP which was in the Grumman built F4F-3 and F4F-4, and it also had a taller tail to help handle the extra torque of the more powerful engine...Eastern division of General Motors put the XF4F-8 into production as the FM-2, which was primarily used on the shorter decks of the smaller escort carriers....I've seen a couple of flying FM-2's before,but never seen an airworthy F4F....
Kermit, I have to see your Tiger cat. Didn't know you had one.
I was lucky enough to see that i-16, I-153 and La-9 fly at Warbirds over Wanaka here in NZ, the La-9 was restored by Pioneer Aero who did the P-39 for MAM, back in the late 90's early 2000's
How did you guys fair during the Hurricane?
Hey, Kermit more videos on the air, you nanaging the planes instruments
Thanks Keegan, Thanks Kermit! Curious as to why you think a Bearcat wouldn't fit in your collection. It's a WWll aircraft, and was deployed to the Pacific, although the wR ended before they saw combat
The buzz bomb engines , we're they used on anything else? There's one on a demo trailer here in Tucson that looks just like that engine.
hoping all is good
Worlds greatest parking lot.
I'm curious what they would want for the T 28 ?
We would love to see you flying some of your collection. Hope Milton did not cause you problems. Helene got us here in So. IL.
Interesting place but it’s 4 hour drive for me. I wanted to volunteer but can’t do that drive and they won’t let you land on their runway.
Is that a genuine Hurricane @35.40
Yes
My Dad flew 39's and 400's in the South Pacific. When he first saw one they all said what the hell is it?? No one had tri gear experience.
Why is there never a TEACHER'S discount? They're just as important as vets, cops and first responders. In fact, if you can read this, thank a teacher. You're welcome.
I was fortunate to have some really great teachers but... my mom taught us all how to read before we got to school.
@@danielboughton3624 So did mine, but we're the exception. Most kids have a rudimentary reading level (at best) at 5 years of age.
My mom refused to teach me to read when I asked her at 4 yo so I just pestered any adult to decode printed text for me starting with cereal boxes so I could get some of the little plastic cereal premium toy airplanes.
Goxhill Aerodrome is 15 minutes from me , I was at the memorial monument on Sunday. Good to see the tower has a great home. Lockeed lightning flew from Goxhill
Initially, I was sad to see the Goxhill tower leave the UK, but now I'm happy to see it restored and looked after. I've seen too many old historical towers demolished in the UK over the years. Two that were close to my heart were Earls Colne and Deenethorpe. Both knocked down in fairly recent years. Tragic.