Douglas A-26B Invader - Part 3 - Project Visit - January 2023

[@KenAustin-i4x]

I love how aerodynamically clean that machine is !

[@richardthomas1566]

That Kid knows a lot about airplanes .

[@rolandalfonso6954]

This was just wonderful! Start to finish, word for word! I never realized the aircraft was so complex! Thank you!

[@ianmangham4570]

Amazing engineering 😮

[@Pauls-World]

Wow, what a great video. A complete preflight check of a concourse restoration war bird that Mr Weeks owns, I’m all in. Thank you so very much for sharing. Mr Weeks, You’re the best. You’re a freaking legend, an American Icon. Please be safe and take care of yourself. I hope the Apache Princess loves the artwork.

[@parrotraiser6541]

Professionalism on display. Getting to know the machine thoroughly.

[@W4UWC]

Fantastic. I really appreciate you sharing this type of detail with us! Thanks.

[@michaelbentsen9869]

I'm all set for my "walk around inspection." Excellent & detailed video. Keep 'em coming!

[@williamcruz1665]

Awesome

[@indianajon7980]

I laughed and groaned so much during this video as welll as finding it really entertaining and insightful! I never thought I would say this but you should do more preflights vids. Thanks for letting us tag along.

[@haroldmclean3755]

To be sure to be sure 👍

[@fuzzdad2]

Amazing how the area behind the pilots looks like a plumbers nightmare. Beautiful airplane.

[@rolandalfonso6954]

Nah, an Ace Plumber would be like: "Finally! Not another leaking toilet!!" . All for fun!

[@yourfriend4104]

Love the A-26/B-26 Survived for a while Think the last model that was made (at least for the military) was the B-26K that had a range of armament within the bomb bay and under the wings.

[@stevenicoson6670]

Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable. Thanks for showing us the check list items. Very interesting. Getting closer to taxi and air time. Thanks Kermit. Retired Air Force veteran.

[@stephenhenion8304]

Two brilliant men having fun! This is so fascinating! I can't believe the level of workmanship and Restoration. Top notch!!

[@mongolike513]

Does Tucker come as inventory? He sure has the Knowledge.

[@mikeperr8701]

Awesome videos! Love learning about all the details in these aircraft! Couldn’t look away for a millisecond!

[@thurin84]

iloled so loud my neighbor probably heard me when you flashed the stage coach up kermit! thanks for the laugh! i needed it!

[@jcwoodman5285]

Excellent details!😊

[@thurin84]

imagine a love so strong kermit paints his lovely wifes picture on many of hi beloved airplanes!!! you are a lucky man kermit!

[@672egalaxie6]

I love all old warbirds but these are in my top three. Just a beautiful and bad a$$ aircraft. And yours is going to be just so fantastic. thanks fer takin' us along...

[@damianbrennan2258]

I love watching Kermit the frog videos

[@mattharte7334]

Great video Kermit going to be very cool when we see her fly, hope you get to keep Tucker too because he sure knows his stuff!

[@wendellb36]

Wow look at the wing attach on the RC135

[@Impact117]

Love those videos, so unique !

[@emmettbaker5024]

Seems pretty cool! I am really looking forward to seeing you actually fly the bird now!

[@bondisteve3617]

Amazing. Love Mr. Tucker! thanks.

[@David-yo5ws]

Love the 'Nitty Gritty' of this pre-flight check. It makes you think how a well trained crew in combat, would have to really know their plane inside and out, in order to find and fix problems, perhaps due to flak damage or bullets or even a part failure, in order to fix it enough for the whole crew to make it back home or finish the bombing run or maybe to keep defending themselves. And it also made me think about the designing and assembly process to put it all together. Just a great tour of the whole plane, thank you Kermit and Tucker.

[@acmekanik9135]

Pretty cool artwork. My grandpa flew on a B17 I think it was called Pistol Packin Momma. Love the ol WW2 artwork.

[@dorkf1sh]

Kermit is all hippie bro, yeah yeah yeah, until he goes into the checklist and is total deep knowledge professional. Impressive.

[@wendellb36]

Flap drives like on the airbus

[@leezinke4351]

Very awesome!

[@thurin84]

wow! as thorough as kermit is i want him around next time i buiy a car!!!!

[@ual737ret]

I’ve done many pre flights in the course of my aviation career but the B26 preflight is the longest one I’ve ever seen.

[@sportsfan205]

One of my most favorite planes, the others being the B-25 and the F4U corsair .In all of the films That I have seen, you see the flight crew just running and jumping in the planes maybe once in a while you see the polite walking around doing a glance over but nothing like you are doing, of course this is a hot rod. You could when you get ready to fly it home just fly up to Castle give me a ride, just a little out of the way. Go through the air museum .

[@timw6596]

Scares me when I don't see the landing gear down locks in place ! ( 20 years on Navy aircraft )

[@KPMACHINE1]

Better start that pre flight check about midnight if ya want an early dawn flight🤦🏼‍♂️. Geez, and you need someone up in it operating the controls!

[@toddsmith9621]

seeing a good look at the gunner's position was interesting,, my father, who was an Airforce photographer had to take over the guns when the gunner was killed,, but they did make it home!! he had to stay there all the way back to Miho Japan, as this was early Korean war and the planes were still based there,, my mother wondered for years why he would yell in his sleep "I've got the guns" ...

[@Grossman2868]

I can just picture people who spent the war years inside those nacelles assembling all this. Amazing considering the rate of production.

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Nose art honoring your wife is amazing and thanks for the part 3 tour of your A-26B Invader.....Thanks.... Shoe🇺🇸

[@fw1421]

I live close to the Alliance Airport in North Fort Worth and we have lots of distribution warehouses that have sprung up around me too.

[@samusaran7396]

Keren banget semua diperiksa...

[@oleran4569]

Your first trip to Chino for warbird parts seemed low horsepower, but lots of torque.

[@robertlafnear7034]

Well ,...... after 55 years in L.A. and hundreds of hours flying the basin not one time did I go to Chino......... Darn it looks like I missed a LOT ! NICE PLANE Kermit.🤗👍👍👍

[@michaelrunnels7660]

Why is the copilot canopy larger than the pilot canopy? You can see it at time index 55:00

[@fw1421]

Kermit,how come Naked In Jamaica Rum isn’t available outside Florida? I bought 2 bottles from a dealer in Orlando by mail and with the shipping charges it was $90! It’s good rum but not $90 good.

[@ILSRWY4]

Great Plane! My Favorite. Great Name for it, but the actual girl doesn't look 1940's looks too modern for a war bird.

[@flypawels]

👍

[@pbyfr]

Wow, I wouldn't have guessed that the Invader was so complex. These wing bolts don't seem very big compared the arms they are locking. And the wing pins I used on glider were twice that thick. With the stainless steel in front of the top turret, but nothing behind, does it mean that it was standard procedure to fire the top turret in direction of flight in the same time as the nose and wings guns? Thanks for sharing.

[@pat36a]

Was nose art always painted on both sides of the nose. I seen to remember seeing some that were only on the left or pilot side.

[@tedbriscoe6649]

Not Lons go that area was all dairy farms.

[@mikesmith7249]

I feel like the downlocks should always be in, removed only during preflight to go flying.

[@stevem7868-y4l]

The walk round took longer than 50% of my private flying sectors !

[@ralphwatten2426]

No auto pilot! How ya gonna go back and make an Old Fashioned like dear ol' dad used to make?

[@willythewave]

Looks like you had plenty of horsepower to get your warbird parts back home that first trip to Chino California.

[@David-yo5ws]

😅 That's just as funny as Kermit's picture insertion. (What a Stage Coach that was! The good ol' days AND carbon friendly too.)

[@eduardo261881]

the dude looking for a plane to fly

[@KermitWeeks444]

The Dude Abides!

[@AdmiralQuality]

IMHO, making the nose art look too professionally (and modernly) rendered spoils the vintage plausibility. Flaws HELP! :)

[@publicmail2]

How much to rebuild and make airworthy? Maybe 3 million??

[@pat36a]

This was a flying plane, then damaged in a Hurricane. This was a repair/restoration.

[@mikesettlemyer5052]

why you can do all this in florida

[@pat36a]

Well it won't smell like cow poop anymore....

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

Arrggh! Why do Yanks call "split-pins" "cotter-pins"? Cotter-pins are straight cylindrical shafts, that transmit torque.

[@MARKLOCKWOOD2012]

look for the Jesus nut cotter pins etc other words.

[@georgeburns7251]

Too boring

[@vrosi1963]

Who is flying it to Florida Hinton ? besides you

[@eduardo261881]

Yamada the dude has jap in him

[@dicktrickles1870]

You know...I can bullshit with the best... can I get a job?