Hawker Tempest V - Part 2 - "The Interview" - Kermie Cam
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2015
- Kermie Cam - Hawker Tempest V - Part Two - "The Interview"
OK gang, here's the Kermie Cam Interview that followed my March 22, 2015 visit of the Tempest V project at Booker Aerodrome in England!
Tony Bianchi, Ralph Hull and myself were interviewed by Darren Harbar for FlyPast Magazine. There's a lot of great information and insight revealed in the interview about this tremendous project, including some of the many ordeals and challenges that we faced along the way.
We are getting closer to having the project shipped to Florida where my crew eagerly await the chance to get their hands on the Tempest V, and finish the restoration... all to the purpose of getting this beast flying again!
Be sure to check out Part One, "Project Visit" to see the Tempest V as I view it for the first time in four years.
Enjoy!
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This is such a fantastic project. Kermit deserves a lot of credit for keeping this project going and for sharing so openly about its progress. The Tempest Mk V is simply just the bees knees when it comes to British warbirds. I hope to live the day to hear the Sabre engine run and possibly see it fly.
this was probably the most fascinating peak behind the restoration scene yet! thank you all for your commitment to getting it right!
This is a must see interview for anyone who may be considering doing a restoration of a vintage aircraft. It is a daunting task and requires a true commitment in time and treasure.
Extremely interesting. A great attitude to restoration, insisting on the correct engineering archaeology. Makes the project really valuable educationally.Fantastic to see such expertise and knowledge lightly carried.
Thank you for sharing Kermit. I hope you see your projects fruition fulfilled in the near future. You are a man of much patience my friend.
Wow! yet again another absorbing totally awesome Kermi Cam.
The prospect of an airworthy Hawker Tempest with an operational Napier Sabre Engine!
Freaking awesome Kermit. Keep at it my man. Yahooo!!!
Hats off for taking the time effort and money to restore these old planes...
It would be fantastic to hear and see a Napier Sabre fire back into life again.
Great work Kermit. Such enthusiasm for such a challenging project, I wish you all the best and I will be keeping a close eye on any developments!
Typhoon/Tempest interest is building, with the UK and Canadian Typhoon projects. The Canadian one is particularly impressive, as its virtually a scratch build, and a LOT is being documented digitised! They're looking for financial support.
Great project.It is the same problem everywhere in whatever field of restoration: finding the right people with the right knowledge and skills is becoming harder by the day.
Oh? What "knowledge" and "skills" have been "lost" between 1940 and now?
Not all common failure modes are well documented... even if they were, the documents themselves may have been lost.
Some issues were never even solved in the past, simply because the men of the time didn't understand the problems. Think about the GeeBee and the flutter issues, as one example.
No add the complex Napier Sabre engine that was never fully fleshed out when compared to the big radials that remained in service being upgraded and studied until the 1970s.
Has the technical capability expanded? Certainly. What has been lost is the guy who knows how a new sleeve valve Sabre acts during break-in, and what the warning signs of a failure might be.
We have the same ability to do everything they did back then, but without the knowledge of how they actually did it, we are reduced to reinventing the wheel.
Fascinating interview. As someone trying to keep motivated on my own little project (which is nowhere near the complexity of a Tempest but it is also British being an Auster!) I can relate to what was said here. :-)
A great project, I really hope you get it flying! Great respect to all the work that has gone in so far. Keep the videos coming!
Great video. The Tempest V looks like it has a lot of potential. The best of luck to you on the restoration and i hope to come down to Fantasy of Flight in the future and see it flying :)
I saw a photo of an inscription on stone which I kept and I forwarded it to Charles Brooking who rescues building artifacts and is Britain's top architectural historian. Kermit Weeks through his collection and museum is another man keeping important aeroplanes and their heritage intact- and where possible airborne. Here is the quote:
"To preserve and renew is as noble as to create."
Great dedication by all parties! Shame that personal plane services closed its doors not long after this project! Infact i believe Spitfire mt 818 G-ADIN that can be seen in the background of part one was their final war bird?
Great info
Check out the hawker typhoon documentary it has a lot of info on the tempest 5 also and their demise after the war. I could only imagine if the napier sabre engine was more available what the reno racing guys could do with one of them, 4000hp with adi the most powerful production aero engine.
I'm always curious - if no plans or drawings are available for these aircraft anymore, what happened to them? Did Hawker just bin the lot of them after the aircraft went out of production? There must have been thousands of documents!
There was Napier Sabre working a saw mill main blade in Tasmania in the late 70's pointed out by my dad who flew from 39-47
Where in Tasmania ? Must have been out west ?!
+SUNGEAR59 Why would a sawmill use a 3000 hp aero engine to operate a saw blade when there are few parts available and the engine would need constant maintenance? A durable diesel or petrol engine of a few hundred HP seems more likely.
great ! what a job
I remember a day I spent with David Morris at Yeovilton. We were looking at the RR Eagle II in the Wyvern and all he could do was chuckle, shake his head and say the English were never one's to be deterred by unnecessary complication. He's got a desktop model of the Sabre II in his office as well. Very likable guy. Good luck with the Sabre, I'll be one of the first to come hear it run. :D
i think a lot of people think that restauration of such a plane is just something you coul d do in a year....but an airplane is not the same as a car....not by far in any way ....
I suspect that the airscrew on the wall is from a Hawker-Siddeley 748 turboprop liner.
Will Your Tempest be airworthy?
Doesn’t the Air and Space Museum have a correct engine on display at the Hazy Center?
+fw1421 Yes, they have a Napier Sabre in the collection. Remarkably, now there are three projects that are attempting to fly with a Sabre engine in the distant future.
Something tells me at as soon as Kermit's is running and flying those "rare" airplanes will turn up here and there. Once he's paid for the R&D and "blueprints" and "restoration parts" and for the "only flying example" that will suddenly be a "challenge" and a matter of "national pride" for other "collectors" and "museums" to want to "equal".
+DEEREMEYER1 Yes and no. Many of these shops often collaborate to share info and trade parts. Components (wings, fuselage, engine) are sometimes done by different vendors. Now proprietary work completed to reverse-engineer and transpose old blueprints into modern CAD software may in fact remain intellectual property. You are correct that once one example has been completed it often inspires other museums to look at their aircraft and start a rebuild if a survivor and parts exist. Some of these buyers are different today, seeing their aircraft collection as equity and they don't want to lose value. Take the new-build replica Me-262s for example. To attract buyers, the project limited it to five examples to guarantee that owners would not lose money on their investment.
Love all your videos, but for Pete's Sakes get a gimble to get rid of all that squeaking!
Looks like somebody might miraculously have just what you need and want for the engine, Kermit. Or maybe this is one of your engines in another UA-camr's videos: ua-cam.com/video/ALFwbGXgk6c/v-deo.html
And maybe just in time for your Tempest 5 when it's finished? That would be a remarkable coincidence, wouldn't it? Looks like they may have started with THIS so you might want to look it over good before you write the check: ua-cam.com/video/GjciUTgvqew/v-deo.html
Media blasting and "additive manufacturing" and all kinds of "modern" remanufacturing "technologies" are in existence today and most of them are being performed by people with very little "formal training". Most of them can read, though. Sort of.
Why is he writing this all down. He's recording it!
shaunsprogress I think it's a list of questions he wanted to ask.
there is job security in not completing a project. these guys are just milking it.
DEeMON Ever tried to restore an extremely rare WW2 aircraft...?
Is it not a bit insane to with such a rare (2 only?) to make this Tempest5 & with such a unreliable engine with such fire risk & making it into an airworthy aircraft?? Surely better to make into airworthy condition & maybe just display in ground runs or even taxying? I do understand the wish to see one flying but surely ANY risk that if one single tiny part breaks or fractures could have fatal consiquences for the aircraft & possibly pilot.Would it possibly be better not to make a reproduction & use a more reliable engine & then have that fly?PLEASE PLEASE don't let one's wish for a working/flying example risking something so rare!Also Imagine the future interest if reproductions could be sold after manufacture of unsourceable parts.Corke aero in Benfleet, Essex, England will have some zero hours/new parts although I believe mostly instrument, electrical & fittings (as I found stuff there for my ealy Hurricane cockpit & fuselage parts back in 2000)I know I am a nobody but Please give it a thought before commiting such a rariety to the skies this is not a Texan/Harvard, Tiger moth, Mustang or spitfire, this is a one of a kind with the Hendons example that will never be allowed to fly BUT will always be there for all to see in real life as memorial to all that were in WWII.