Fokker Eindecker - Flights at Wycombe Air Park
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2022
- OK, Gang, here’s a great flash from the past video we dug out of my "Home Movies” from back in 1987.
This was when I was in England doing some first flights in the DeHavilland Mosquito, and I got to fly a Fokker Eindecker replica!
Expect a Mosquito video at some point, and enjoy!
Enjoy!
Kermit Weeks
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"Start that fokker!" Thats pure gold! Hahaha
Loved it when Kermit said "Start that Fokker!" 🙂
Every pilot who has ever flown an old war bird must have those 'so this is what he saw' moments. What a privilege, thanks Kermit!
Doug's sense of humor was legendary. A very rough Percival Proctor was described as ''making it's own spare parts as it flew along''
Once the Eindecker became airborne, it was a 100 year leap into the past. No visible reference of today. Your passion for aviation is inspiring.
I'm amazed at the progress in aircraft in roughly 25 yrs- 1915 eindecker- 1940 Mosquito
1960 space travel!
Or to 1944 and the ME-262
@@robertsklenka5823 greatest improvment👍
....1969 Apollo. The day man walked on the moon, I watched the footage with my grandad who said, "when I was your age, man still hadnt flown, and in my lifetime not only has he done this he has now reached the moon; just think what they'll do in your lifetime"
Think about the rate of advance in the last 200 years. 1819, SS Savannah first steamship to cross the Atlantic, 50 years later, 1869, US transcontinental railroad and the Suez Canal both opened, 50 years later, 1919, First aerial crossing, NC-4, non-stop crossing, Alcock & Brown’s Vimy, and round trip crossing, R-34, of the Atlantic, 50 years after that, 1969, Apollo to the Moon.
Neat aircraft. You did great with it. Good old England.
Looked to be flying great. You got the stick touch for sure.
Thanks for showing.
Retired Air Force veteran.
A design that holds up over 100 years later. Amazing.
Doug Bianchi also wrote some terrific magazine articles - great sense of humour! Left us far too soon...
I love the simple elegance ofthis old plane…
Wow. Thanks for sharing
Learned to fly here. Was called Booker airfield then. Personal Plane services built the airplanes for the movie " those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines". Also partly shot there.
Cool blast from the past!
I instantly thought of that old classic 6:25 movie and the German pilot who just got in it and took off
Thanks Mr. Kermit. G'Day to all there.
Very evocative of the early days of air fighting ..... especially the first flight on the misty day.
A wonderful piece of history, even though it's a replica. When will we learn to hang on to retired aircraft for historical reasons? Way too many historical aircraft completely gone. A shame. We need more folks like Kermit Weeks.🙂🙂
Wow absolutely fantastic 👍🏼 ✨
I was at Booker at that time flying a gliding competition. The Mosquito was amazing to watch and hear…
Nice to see the old bird fly again.+ a Nice "daisy cutter" by the young AEB. So too, by Kermit. I never flew the E3, but did/sign off quite a few annuals. I believe Anthony Fokker designed a cam & mechanical linkage interupter gear after looking at a shot down Moraine Saulnier which had deflector plates fitted. Quite draughty just running-up, so just as well its not that fast. Thanks for posting.
Fascinating to watch this classic old Aircraft in the air. What a privilege it must be to Pilot one. Looks like a bit of hand-full in the Air. I know the RC Wing-Warper models of the Eindecker are a bit of a hand-full to fly. Thanks Kermit for sharing your amazing old movies.
That's a modern replica. The "real" Eindecker didn't have ailerons, and had a full flying stabilizer, no separated elevators. Still a magnificent aircraft.
I was told that in the WW1 period, most Pilots came from Cavalry Units, as they were used to seeing the world from horseback. People were short then, so the 5 foot 4 inch Infantry were only used to seeing grass and weeds. It was thought the Cavalry would adapt quicker to understanding what they were seeing from above.
They must have had a lot of respect for your skills Kermit to let you fly that beast.
I think it was more a case of flying the early planes was similar to controlling a horse. I even heard that trainee pilots were encouraged to ride horses to get a feel for flying.
So great to see you flying at one of my (very!) local airfields....and one that I know so well....
Best part of the videoi is Kermit yelling out "start that Fokker"
Kermit, have you visited the Golden age air museum in Bethel Pennsylvania? I believe it is right up your alley.👍🇺🇸
Really love these films from your past they’re very cool. Thanks for posting
Fokke me, this was awesome. Good to see
Thanks again for all that you have done and do for flying community.
Kermit, your life is amazing!
That was really cool to watch.
Thanks Kermit.
Thanks for posting. 👍😊😊😊
My Favourite WW1 Ace is Georges Guynemer who flew the Spad XIII which was one of the first real forwardly modern fighters with a big powerful Hispano Suiza V8 and enough fuel capacity to have over a 2 hour endurance. Apparently the Germans contacted his Squadron and challenged him to prove himself in the air, of the 6 German planes that came, 2 fell out of the sky in flames, 2 were badly damaged and fled with the other 2. C'est Badass!
Finally on this channel I mostly see people who talk about what they do in catering but we don't see much of it?
Very sweet. I would be very unhappy to be in that Fokker with a mossy behind me
GREAT home movies
Another sunny day in England
Great video...I walked into that hangar in 1980....Asked the fellow in overalls standing next to tool cart if I could have a look ...take some pictures ...he said yes have a look around....I had never seen so many significant airplanes in one spot before...A Spitfire..Lord Lindsay's...a Storch ...an Italian something not sure what Caproni??...then a silver Mosquito in back....he said was getting ready for ferry flight to USA....hanging from rafters was super cool large Heinkel HE111 model....anyway it wasnt until I saw the second Indiana Jones movie that I put 2 and 2 together....I had walked into the hangar of Personal Plane Services and the chap in the overalls was Tony Bianci.....Have to dig up those pics...
Great! I 💗💕 this Plane 💪😎
Beyond COOL ! 🤗👍👍👍, LOVE planes like this.
Love you videos! Thank you so very much!
Спасибо!
Thanks for sharing your passion Kermit!
Amazing to see, thanks for sharing!
It is amazing how far aircraft design and control had advanced in 12 years.
Yeah, hard to believe this was state of the art back in 2010.
I was on vacation and rented a 172 at this field years ago. Nice place.
What's really amazing is practically every world war I fighter in about 1915 to 1918 on the average they almost got 20 miles to the gallon and went 100 miles an hour. And that was over a hundred years ago. A lot of cars get 30 miles to the gallon and even though some planes can go a little bit faster a lot of them don't get any better than 15 or 20 miles to the gallon when you take everything into account of course it varies with wind speed and altitude that's why they say how many hours for 40 or 20 gallon tank. Although with all the advancement in motors and all the advancement from going to jet to rock it to electric motors when it comes to going 100 to 150 mph in the sky they rarely get better than 20 miles to the gallon
my favorite ww1 plane...love it although is a replica.
That how it was many years ago in the old war birds........Thanks Kermit.....
Shoe🇺🇸
Holy cow you would not get me up in that old crate for love or money! Pilots were so brave back then, I suppose they had to be.
I was wondering if they had to draw straws to see who was going to be the unlucky fellow to go first. Ha Ha!
Thanks for your efforts!
Mein Gott... you were playin around in that when i was just 12!!! Time flies, eh? Nice flying, Kermit!
When you were younger you looked a lot like Jim Henson and your name is Kermit, too funny! LOL 🐸
Go Kermit go!
Kermit are you STILL planning on building a wing warping E3???
Start that Fokker xD
I would love to see someone replicate, or restore a ww1 german taube
that does look like fun!
It takes a brave man to fly an Eindecker given the plane's instability. Watching it fly, it's also hard to believe that the plane terrified allied pilots to the extent it did.
Great old video but I could have done without being reminded how long ago 1987 was 🙂
I made a documentary about the Eindecker back in the day. But then UA-cam went to hell and copyright claimed the entire video for creative commons music from the 1910s, and they made it clear little guys should just give up.
I remember seeing this aircraft in the sky a couple of times back then perhaps you were the pilot Kermit ( I grew up in Marlow )
Fun fact: while you are mentioning the "Oberursel" engine - this site near Frankfurt is BMW Rolls-Royce AeroEngines since 30 yrs
Skeeto bomber in background.all wood.
Thanks for sharing Kermit. Is there anything you can't fly? I bet if someone showed up with a lunar lander Kermit could fly it!
It seems only a moment ago when you flew the Mosquito back to the States !!! I guess because of the potential fragility of the construction l doubt the Mossie will take to the skies again ? Thanks Kermit......or should l say Bob !
I just wish you were in charge of the IWM , then things would really happen over here
Now remember that the original Oberursel was more or less a binary engine, either full power of nothing, since power was managed via the ignition and not a carb or injection.
Germans had cool uniforms for sure.
I think that’s where the rules for flying came from Oscar Boelcke. Known as Dicta Boelcke rules for flying roughly translated to Boelcke’s dictates. As far as I know this is right you have to check it for yourself🤷🏻♂️ ☺️
very fun, perhaps a shame we couldn't get to really see what made the place a "menace" as noted at 6:40 (there is a view of part of the interrupter gear in the photo of the original engine at 2:38)
Hard to believe that this scrawny E Series monoplane completely changed air warfare in WW1.........for a while. With it's revolutionary firing-thru-the-prop gun , it became known as the Fokker Scourge........RFC planes became 'Fokker Fodder' Later allied biplanes made it virtually obsolete..
I ❤️ warbirds.
its so hard to get that lozenge pattern to look right.
So awesome wonder if this plane even exists anymore?
Great video where is she today and is she still flying? And what about the Mossie?
Great history video, always look forward to your informative video's.
14:26 Did she just comment on the landing like: "Being called Kermit, he likes to hop" ?😉
It looks like Oddball finally graduated from Sherman Tanks to vintage German aircraft..?
When he says this aircraft has a modern engine I guess it has a throttle, which WWI planes didn't, they were either on or off and couldn't be re-started in the air (although some of the more advanced/later WWI engines had the option to turn of the spark to half the cylinders, reducing the thrust for landing approach). Kermit would be well aware of this.
Hopefully got rid of the dreaded castor oil also! HAHAHAHAHA
@@lambastepirate I'm guessing the modern engine doesn't rely on castor oil also. How hard were the pilots back in the day? Much respect to the old pilots (and the new).
The original had a rotary engine. This one had a modern engine.
Hard to see, but it appears to be a flat opposed 4cyl...
@ molly millions. Castor oil. Castrol can still be bought today. Don't know if Castrol R. Is still sold. Had a sweet distinctive smell and was used in two cycle racing engines.
Jeremy mellor kermit I was very interested in this I was a volunteer fore the blue max museum and remember the einderker very well .
Was this the first high performce monoplane ?
Kermit has had some really unique aviation experience! Certainly not the best performer in WW1 but was a pioneer (ailerons on replica I'm sure made it a lot easier & safer to fly). Oswald Boelcke mentioned scored the most Eindecker victories - 19 out of his final tally of 40. Know Eric Brown has a long established record for types (487) of aircraft flown. Curious how close Kermit is to Mr. Brown's record & do replica's count in the tally?
Let's just say replicas count..
@@chrisdavis3642 agreed.
Does anyone know what engine that is ? It's producing 90 horsepower. Modern as in Continental or Lycoming , horizontally opposed.
What's the disadvantages of a gnome monosoupape engine?
Man that thing is tiny huh?
In the start, it doesn't appear the rotary engine cylinders are spinning. Is this rather a radial motor?
Continental C-85. The aircraft was built to be a practical movie replica hence it also has ailerons.
Immelman turn.
You didn't say what engine was used to power the plane.
Since when does a fokker e.iii have aelerons???🤔😮💨
Kermit, who was the first pilot ? You did well as the second . A new engine and ailerons but still difficult. Fun share !
Tony Bianchi - it’s in the clip!
a "spark on a lark"?
When was this filmed..? And is the replica still around....?
It said this was filmed in 1987
@@MrDdaland Ta
Ailerons?
Ailerons? Elevator flaps? NO THANKS!
Было бы в России столько любителей авиации первой мировой войны
Me: "Must...refrain...from...making...fokker...jokes"
Kermit: makes a fokker joke ;D
Bellissimo però non è la versione originale. Questo velivolo ha gli alettoni mentre nel progetto di origine le ali si sventolano tramite tiranti e carrucole.❤
Lozenge fabric on an Eindecker? Don't think so. Radial engine also a pity
I don't think that the Eindecker had a gun that was "synchronized" to shoot throught the propeller. It shot through the prop, but if I remember correctly it just had metal wedges on the back of the prop to deflect bullets that hit it.
No, the Eindekkers DID have a synchronised gun (or 2 - or even 3, in the case of the EIV). That was its USP, and why it caused such mayhem.
Earlier allied aircraft (particularly the Morane designs on which the Fokkers were based, had the metal plates on the propeller, which badly affected aircraft performance.
@@brom1857 Nope, originally they had metal wedges on the prop roots to deflect bullets. Unfortutately the shock of impact would eventually crack the wooden prop and one plane was catured by the British and the British were first to synchronize. Maybe later versions of teh Eindecker adopted sync but the British did a syncro first.
@Arthur Foyt Sorry, that doesn't accord with the history as I have read it over many years - in fact it is a 'mirror image'.
There were various patented interrupter gears, some from before the war, but they had been forgotten. The first plated propeller blades were produced by the French. Their best-known and first 'ace' was Roland Garros, who shot down several German planes in early 1915, flying a Morane so equipped, but he was captured, and his secret was discovered by the Germans. Fokker 's engineers quickly developed a proper interrupter gear as a result - and used it on the Eindekker 1, and subsequent models.
Meanwhile the British, with no such gear, developed the pusher fighters, DH2 and FE2, and used a side- mounted Lewis gun on the Bristol Scout C, firing outboard of the propeller. The French used the Nieuport 11, with an overwing mounted Lewis gun, firing above the propeller
The first British interrupter gear was 1916's Vickers-Challenger, well after the Eindekkers had been defeated.
The Eindekkers weren't brilliant fighter aircraft, but it was their modern gun mount which made their fearsome reputation.
@@brom1857 I read piloyt accounts and memoirs. Whether that made it into the "history books" you read is unknown.
@Arthur Foyt Think I've read most of them, too, over the years. But facts are facts - and there can be no doubt whatsoever that the French pioneered the bullet plate on the propeller, that the Fokker Scourge was the result of the first synchronised gun in service, nor that the British were way behind in developing an interrupter gear.
You'd find the Aerodrome Forum a fascinating source of information on WW1 in the air.