Turning these old rotory engine planes to the left was a bear. The engines spun to the right and that's the direct they wanted to go. Turning to the left was slow and caused the plane to go nose up and sometimes stall. Turning to the right was fast and sharp and usually caused the plane to go nose down which could cause a downward spin in the hands of an inexperienced pilot. This planes sopwith predecessor, the camel, killed almost as many pilots in mishandling accidents as it did enemy pilots in combat. It took real skill to fly these old birds in combat.
All the motor revolves with the prop, so there is a huge gyroscopic effect. If I remember rightly, such engines made the planes hard to turn left in flight, but they'd snap roll in a heartbeat to the right.
Yes, I think that it was an eleven cylinder rotary engine, geared to take advantage of the extra power. Because of the torque reaction it had to have a bigger rudder and the port wing was 4 inches longer than the starboard.
History right there... incredible that young men flew, fought and died in these aircraft 100 years ago. It’s great that your passion keeps their memory alive.
It made me think that these guys were so incredibly brave, flying with no parachute, basic live or die flying. But it also made me think that these pilots thought they were the lucky ones, they thought they had it good not having to fight in the trenches. Different generation we must never ever forget.
Kermit .I hope you read this.i was talking to my grandsons over the 4th of July and they were telling me the best time they Ever had with their grandparents in Florida was at the Fantasy of flight museum.we they met Kermit as he was walking through the museum and you took the time and Talk to them about different airplanes you have at the museum .they have watched every video you have on UA-cam..you are a very awesome guy Kermit I appreciate everything you're doing for the aviation history It's extremely important To preserve these beautiful aircraft's ..we hope to meet you soon .keep up the awesome work and fly safe
It truly is hard to believe that in less than 70 years, we went from this as cutting edge aviation tech to having a craft that could be launched into space, orbit the planet, re-enter the atmosphere and land.
Beast! Much harder to turn over than the old Tigermoth inline 4 lol. Dad and Mr, Dow flew 20- 50 ft off the deck straight across Lake Superior, the tiger was on floats lol and made the appearance at Oshkosh era 70's. thunder bay to OC. CF-FUG. Keep 'em flying!
Nice to see that plane out flying again. Re. the rudder, this particular model was built in the 'early' style to match the original number and pilot's paint scheme. Kermit's snipe might be the only one in this version, the later snipes built in NZ recently have the later style, larger rudder and stabiliser.
Mr Weeks, you always amaze me with your flying versatility. One day your in a Martin Mars, and the next day your in a Sopwith Snipe...and you fly every plane like its the most natural thing ever. Your boundless talent and resources make you an entertainment dynamo! Many thanks.
What a nice jaunt around the field. Luckily none of the Circus or Archie about to ruin your fun. Next up some sausage busting and trench strafing? So good to see it in the air where that beautiful machine belongs. Saw an old interview with the late Mr. Sopwith. What an amazing pilot and designer and individual.
Wow no wonder those planes had issues with flipping over....that huge engine with all that weight spinning around has got to be throwing massive torque. Great job flying that beautiful plane !!
Love seeing a Snipe that is painted and flying like William G. Barker's famous VC winning aircraft. I've seen the original airframe of E8102 in the Canadian War Museum.
Grandpa always said, the hardest thing about flying the Sopwith was getting it started. The second hardest thing was getting it to turn left while taxiing.
Similar to the Camel, but without the Camel's vices, the Snipe had tremendous P2W and resulting climb. Many consider it to have been the best allied pursuit of WWI to fly in #s. The Snipe was the RAF's first-line pursuit into the early 1920s.
I watch alot of aviation videos and really appreciated the making of yours! And I also want to say good job to the pilot the flight crew and ESPECIALLY to the camera operator. Nice job on filming, you nailed it!
Man was I grinning watching that rotary engine fire up. Got a chuckle watching the crew hold her in place during the throttle up too. Thanks for these fun videos.
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A little trivia. The Sopwith Snipe was rated as one of or best WW1 fighter. It's basically the Sopwith Camel 2.0. Only 500 were manufactured before the war ended but the British continued to fly them up to 1927. It performed as well as the Camel but pilots preferred it over the Camel due to it's better and safer handling.
SO glad and appreciative of people like you saving and preserving our history, thank you👍 It is so important for the generations behind us to understand how we became to be where we are and where we are going.
Love the collection in the background, Connie and Catalina are among my favorite old girls, can't beat the big old radials, would love to get my hands on and get some experience helping
I could only imagine what young Air Cadets were going through in the 1916-18's learning this new fangled vehicles . Probably wrapped themselves around the Hangar the first week of flying
I jumped at the chance to start a airplane like that. It was a J3 cub Starting that airplane would be a bucket list item taking me back over a hundred years
A first for me - I'd heard of the Armstrong starter, but never seen a Double Armstrong starter! I was thinking exactly the same thoughts as Wilson Laidlaw below. Many thanks - wonderful aircraft, in first class condition!
I'm glad Fokkers were as easy to start! Awesome airplane, I'd love to passenger in something like that someday - but not around here. Airplane traffic superhighway overhead almost all the time!
As I remember you don't really have to wait for the engine to warm up before running them up to full power. The reason you normally do in a modern engine is to get the oil warmed. This is important to get it to thin out to a usable viscosity. These motors don't recirculate the oil, it's a total loss system with no scavenge pump so once it goes in, it lubricates and gets flung out.. so no warm up of the oil it never warms up it just goes in and then out. I guess it's comforting to hear the engine doing well before revving it up but in war time they just lit them up and took off in whatever direction the wind is blowing that day because the aerodromes were big fields you just took off and landed into the wind, whatever direction that is.
From memory they don't have a throttle so they pretty much go up to full revs as soon as you start them. They are 'throttled' by blipping, switching the mags off and on, and you can here Kermit doing this as he is maneuvering, not chance for a warm up idle even for the metal! The gyroscopic and P effect are incredible on a light aircraft like that.
@@vumba1331 While most all rotaries had a blip switch to cut the ignition, not all rotaries were without a throttle. This misnomer comes from people not understanding there were different types of rotary engines, just as there are different types of all other engines. The throttle-less rotary engine was mainly the Gnome Monosoupape series, or French for "Single Valve". These engines had one big valve at the top of each cylinder that was actuated by a push-pull rod. Due to the valve doing double duty as both an exhaust and air intake valve, and the fuel and oil being admitted by ports at the bottom of the cylinder, it wasn't possible for this engine to have a real throttle, hence cutting the ignition to slow it down. The Monosoupape was a very strange engine design, being somewhere between a two and four cycle engine, since it had both ports and valves. The designers of the engine did this though to save weight with fewer moving parts and a lighter valve train. The precision needed to make the engine made it a lot more expensive than other rotary engines. Other rotary engines like the Le Rhone, Bentley BR.1 and BR.2 (as used in the Snipe) used a conventional two valve system where air, fuel and oil was brought from the crank case to the top of the cylinder with an induction tube. These engines did have a proper throttle and used a normal carburetor. They could be ramped up and down in power like any other engine type back then. You can actually hear this in the video where the Bentley BR.2 is run at several different varying power settings, with a smooth ramp between those settings. While the Bentley BR.2 can be blipped on and off by cutting the ignition, this isn't desirable because it can lead to engine damage. If you wait too long between ignition cuts, you can get excessive fuel and oil into the cylinder and lead to detonation.
No throttle setting on these rotary engines; full throttle and ignition off. You can hear the ignition being switched off when taxing on ground.This engine had the crank shaft non moving and cylinders rotating(rotary).
No throttle settings is actually one of the biggest misconceptions about rotary engines. They actually had throttle's, but they were generally ran at max fuel flow adn adjustment was achieved by letting more or less air into the engine. It wasn't very effective and could lead to poor running and stalling, so the blip switch was used as it provided more reliable engine control for the pilot.
Have been to this museum... absolutely magnificent place to visit. Unbelievable selection of aircraft that are one of's. I believe in markings of Billy Barker, Vc winner?
Just found this channel and have a lot of cool videos to catch up on. I live in not very far from the EAA near Oshkosh and have been there many times. Was familiar with Mrs, Weeks but didn't know he had that extensive of a collection and museum. You are truly an aviation historian. The world is a better place with you in it sir. Thank you for sharing this with us on UA-cam.
Un joli coups d' huile de coude pour démarrer le rototo! j' Adore le bruit du moteur Clerget et la bonne odeur d' huile de ricin! Merci pour cette splendide vidéo...
Sorta creeps me out but I get flashbacks of going to bed smelling like castrol oil and listening for prop noises.I have a small library of original textbooks on engine maintenance and upkeep of old biplanes. Guess the mildew plays tricks.
For just a second, as he taxis across the grass, your imagination is transported to 1916. Theeeeeen, a huge Connie looms up behind the Sopwith. Oh well. Anachronistic indeed.
That’s not a old war bird it’s only like 7 years old built by TVAL in New Zealand. Not sure about the motor though it might be an original, TVAL has a original motor in their camel, they have built like 30 new old planes, and now build a number of new / old engines as well.
@vachief Looking at the level of neglict and decay on the Constillation, perhaps preservation of it in the current condition would prove to be far more affordable. Making it a huge lawn ornament is still better than scraping it.
WoW !! The Snipe sounds and looks good Mr. Weeks ! Considering the ager of your ground crew perhaps you ought to consider making one of the truck-mounted cranking systems for those old rotary I've seen in picture from that era ? Hope all goes well in flying off its hours . Stay safe !
Turning these old rotory engine planes to the left was a bear. The engines spun to the right and that's the direct they wanted to go. Turning to the left was slow and caused the plane to go nose up and sometimes stall. Turning to the right was fast and sharp and usually caused the plane to go nose down which could cause a downward spin in the hands of an inexperienced pilot. This planes sopwith predecessor, the camel, killed almost as many pilots in mishandling accidents as it did enemy pilots in combat. It took real skill to fly these old birds in combat.
All the motor revolves with the prop, so there is a huge gyroscopic effect. If I remember rightly, such engines made the planes hard to turn left in flight, but they'd snap roll in a heartbeat to the right.
Yup except for 1 late engine germans made crank spin opposite of engine. Pretty crazy set up
Yes, I think that it was an eleven cylinder rotary engine, geared to take advantage of the extra power. Because of the torque reaction it had to have a bigger rudder and the port wing was 4 inches longer than the starboard.
History right there... incredible that young men flew, fought and died in these aircraft 100 years ago. It’s great that your passion keeps their memory alive.
….. and no parachutes…
The sound of that plane is hauntingly "CLASSIC"!🤗
It made me think that these guys were so incredibly brave, flying with no parachute, basic live or die flying. But it also made me think that these pilots thought they were the lucky ones, they thought they had it good not having to fight in the trenches. Different generation we must never ever forget.
Be fun; but i would stick to the in line engine s.... Real busy with a rotery engine however...
@@mikearakelian6368 Fun, until your plane is full of holes, and you're behind enemy lines...
You neednt remind me of war... Was in tet in '68 n bagged my share of bodies...
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@@mikearakelian6368 si me llamo la atención que tiene el motor rotativo ! He visto otras réplicas pero con motor radial ...
I have always been enthralled with the WW1 era. Just the sheer ingenuity.
Kermit .I hope you read this.i was talking to my grandsons over the 4th of July and they were telling me the best time they Ever had with their grandparents in Florida was at the Fantasy of flight museum.we they met Kermit as he was walking through the museum and you took the time and Talk to them about different airplanes you have at the museum .they have watched every video you have on UA-cam..you are a very awesome guy Kermit I appreciate everything you're doing for the aviation history It's extremely important To preserve these beautiful aircraft's ..we hope to meet you soon .keep up the awesome work and fly safe
Super Connie in the background! Got to fly in one about 10 years ago. What an experience.
Its great to see you saving so many historic planes and keep them in flying condition. Thank you👍🇺🇸
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It truly is hard to believe that in less than 70 years, we went from this as cutting edge aviation tech to having a craft that could be launched into space, orbit the planet, re-enter the atmosphere and land.
And now we are back to Spam in a can.
And 50 years after this plane, the Brits had a plane that could go supersonic in a vertical climb -The English Electric Lightning. It's amazing to me.
Beast! Much harder to turn over than the old Tigermoth inline 4 lol. Dad and Mr, Dow flew 20- 50 ft off the deck straight across Lake Superior, the tiger was on floats lol and made the appearance at Oshkosh era 70's. thunder bay to OC. CF-FUG. Keep 'em flying!
Nice to see that plane out flying again. Re. the rudder, this particular model was built in the 'early' style to match the original number and pilot's paint scheme. Kermit's snipe might be the only one in this version, the later snipes built in NZ recently have the later style, larger rudder and stabiliser.
Mr Weeks, you always amaze me with your flying versatility. One day your in a Martin Mars, and the next day your in a Sopwith Snipe...and you fly every plane like its the most natural thing ever. Your boundless talent and resources make you an entertainment dynamo! Many thanks.
So glad that there are people around with enough money, enthusiasm and mechanical ability to keep these old museum pieces in flying condition.
Watching that piece of history fly it blows my mind thinking they fought battles in these planes. Nicely done.
What a nice jaunt around the field. Luckily none of the Circus or Archie about to ruin your fun. Next up some sausage busting and trench strafing? So good to see it in the air where that beautiful machine belongs. Saw an old interview with the late Mr. Sopwith. What an amazing pilot and designer and individual.
Wow no wonder those planes had issues with flipping over....that huge engine with all that weight spinning around has got to be throwing massive torque. Great job flying that beautiful plane !!
It's always reassuring seeing a mechanic there on startup eyeballing the engine for any potential problems before taking it up.
I’ve watched this video several times since it was uploaded and it kicks ass every time!
The difference between the Snipe and the Pup in terms of Engine compression, trying to start it was incredible.
Never gets old, watching her fly . . .
Love seeing old Sopwith’s in flight. Tom would be very proud of your work.
Wonderful to see this aircraft in such beautiful restored condition and flying.
Beautiful flight...the sound if the engine is just great...good luck getting her ready for Oshkosh, wish I could be.
Lived in central Florida for most my life, never knew what FOF was, driven by plenty of time on way to and grom St Pete. Now I want to visit.
Love seeing a Snipe that is painted and flying like William G. Barker's famous VC winning aircraft. I've seen the original airframe of E8102 in the Canadian War Museum.
Such a beautiful old airplane. Well done for keeping it in the air.
Grandpa always said, the hardest thing about flying the Sopwith was getting it started. The second hardest thing was getting it to turn left while taxiing.
Slop Sec Ah yes, the flywheel effect
It also shows on ww2 aircraft
But not nearly as bad as a rotary engine
One example- The Spitfire
Awesome flying history ->...logging 5more hrs in the Snipe is a lot of flying time to do in 2/12 weeks .. God Speed Kermit and much respect!
Similar to the Camel, but without the Camel's vices, the Snipe had tremendous P2W and resulting climb. Many consider it to have been the best allied pursuit of WWI to fly in #s. The Snipe was the RAF's first-line pursuit into the early 1920s.
Those old rotary engines are great!!! Beautiful plane, keep 'em flying! Have fun at OSH !
Cool to hear a rotary radial with a throttle. Still needed to blip the ignition to land.
Nice to see the old girl flying with the 'spit and spray' sound of the rotary engine! Col, NZ.
I watch alot of aviation videos and really appreciated the making of yours! And I also want to say good job to the pilot the flight crew and ESPECIALLY to the camera operator. Nice job on filming, you nailed it!
Giving that Blip switch a real workout, nicely done!
Man was I grinning watching that rotary engine fire up. Got a chuckle watching the crew hold her in place during the throttle up too. Thanks for these fun videos.
A little trivia. The Sopwith Snipe was rated as one of or best WW1 fighter. It's basically the Sopwith Camel 2.0. Only 500 were manufactured before the war ended but the British continued to fly them up to 1927. It performed as well as the Camel but pilots preferred it over the Camel due to it's better and safer handling.
Sounds like Kermit is bumping the mags just like a boss.. outstanding!
This airplane carries the markings of Canadian WW1 ace William Barker VC. He also flew the Sopwith Camel prior to the Snipe. Lovely video!
The original fuselage is at the canadian war museum.
SO glad and appreciative of people like you saving and preserving our history, thank you👍
It is so important for the generations behind us to understand how we became to be where we are and where we are going.
Yes agreed, and lets not forget the wonderful Shuttleworth Collection in UK.
As usual Kermit, outstanding stuff. That Sopwith is awesome. Those guys in New Zealand do some excellent work.
Boy that Sopwith looks like it really puts the fun in flying!
Wow sent shivers down my spine seeing it in the air!
Love the collection in the background, Connie and Catalina are among my favorite old girls, can't beat the big old radials, would love to get my hands on and get some experience helping
I was just looking at a fine example this aircraft at RAF Hendon museum. Great to see one in flight.
Always amazes me to see and hear a rotary. Beautiful!
Isn't it radial engine? Rotary is another type of engine without piston and conrod. Search it.
Thank's
TheAngrySnail No, it’s a rotary engine.
@@carmen071972 this is a rotary as the whole engine rotates around the axis of the “crankshaft”
Amazing aircraft! Love and truly appreciate the work you guys are doing. On a side note... looks like it may be time to mow the runway.
Love the menual parking brake at 5:30.
Wow, My best friend, OMG! So wonderful! I really love this! Thank you so much!
Great flight. Engine sound pretty healthy.
I could only imagine what young Air Cadets were going through in the 1916-18's learning this new fangled vehicles . Probably wrapped themselves around the Hangar the first week of flying
Very nice, thank you for keeping these old airplanes in the air where they belong. Hope to see you at Oshkosh.
I jumped at the chance to start a airplane like that. It was a J3 cub Starting that airplane would be a bucket list item taking me back over a hundred years
A first for me - I'd heard of the Armstrong starter, but never seen a Double Armstrong starter! I was thinking exactly the same thoughts as Wilson Laidlaw below. Many thanks - wonderful aircraft, in first class condition!
I've actually seen a triple armstrong in the efforts to start the Shuttleworth Collection's SE5
I'm glad Fokkers were as easy to start! Awesome airplane, I'd love to passenger in something like that someday - but not around here. Airplane traffic superhighway overhead almost all the time!
As I remember you don't really have to wait for the engine to warm up before running them up to full power. The reason you normally do in a modern engine is to get the oil warmed. This is important to get it to thin out to a usable viscosity. These motors don't recirculate the oil, it's a total loss system with no scavenge pump so once it goes in, it lubricates and gets flung out.. so no warm up of the oil it never warms up it just goes in and then out. I guess it's comforting to hear the engine doing well before revving it up but in war time they just lit them up and took off in whatever direction the wind is blowing that day because the aerodromes were big fields you just took off and landed into the wind, whatever direction that is.
From memory they don't have a throttle so they pretty much go up to full revs as soon as you start them. They are 'throttled' by blipping, switching the mags off and on, and you can here Kermit doing this as he is maneuvering, not chance for a warm up idle even for the metal!
The gyroscopic and P effect are incredible on a light aircraft like that.
@@vumba1331 While most all rotaries had a blip switch to cut the ignition, not all rotaries were without a throttle. This misnomer comes from people not understanding there were different types of rotary engines, just as there are different types of all other engines.
The throttle-less rotary engine was mainly the Gnome Monosoupape series, or French for "Single Valve". These engines had one big valve at the top of each cylinder that was actuated by a push-pull rod. Due to the valve doing double duty as both an exhaust and air intake valve, and the fuel and oil being admitted by ports at the bottom of the cylinder, it wasn't possible for this engine to have a real throttle, hence cutting the ignition to slow it down. The Monosoupape was a very strange engine design, being somewhere between a two and four cycle engine, since it had both ports and valves. The designers of the engine did this though to save weight with fewer moving parts and a lighter valve train. The precision needed to make the engine made it a lot more expensive than other rotary engines.
Other rotary engines like the Le Rhone, Bentley BR.1 and BR.2 (as used in the Snipe) used a conventional two valve system where air, fuel and oil was brought from the crank case to the top of the cylinder with an induction tube. These engines did have a proper throttle and used a normal carburetor. They could be ramped up and down in power like any other engine type back then. You can actually hear this in the video where the Bentley BR.2 is run at several different varying power settings, with a smooth ramp between those settings. While the Bentley BR.2 can be blipped on and off by cutting the ignition, this isn't desirable because it can lead to engine damage. If you wait too long between ignition cuts, you can get excessive fuel and oil into the cylinder and lead to detonation.
Thanks for all you do for aviation!
Amazing and scary at the same time. Kermit you can obviously fly anything ! Thank you.
No throttle setting on these rotary engines; full throttle and ignition off. You can hear the ignition being switched off when taxing on ground.This engine had the crank shaft non moving and cylinders rotating(rotary).
No throttle settings is actually one of the biggest misconceptions about rotary engines. They actually had throttle's, but they were generally ran at max fuel flow adn adjustment was achieved by letting more or less air into the engine. It wasn't very effective and could lead to poor running and stalling, so the blip switch was used as it provided more reliable engine control for the pilot.
Have been to this museum... absolutely magnificent place to visit. Unbelievable selection of aircraft that are one of's. I believe in markings of Billy Barker, Vc winner?
It is .
It’s a Brazilian show you should mow her strip. Beautiful airplane and a successful flight love it best at Oshkosh.
and to think its a hundred years old is absolutely incredible
7:35 'Turns great to the right!' had me LOL after all the effort it took to make the thing turn left.
Many Thanks from the UK. Thank God SOMEONE is keeping British flying heritage alive. The UK certainly doesn't!
Wow. An astonishingly beautiful aircraft.
What a crazy little vert stab.
Wish I could go to EAA. I’m only 1/2 hr South but I have to work. Love to see ya.
Just found this channel and have a lot of cool videos to catch up on. I live in not very far from the EAA near Oshkosh and have been there many times. Was familiar with Mrs, Weeks but didn't know he had that extensive of a collection and museum. You are truly an aviation historian. The world is a better place with you in it sir. Thank you for sharing this with us on UA-cam.
Great stuff and nice breakdown of the aircraft's idiosyncrasies!
Nice aircraft. One can only imagine the pressure of combat in these old aircraft!
Beautiful airplane although my favorite is the SE5a. Imagine being William Avrey Bishop flying your SE5a on the Western Front?
I never knew the engine rotated on those things! Also that propeller is huge!
OMG I didn't realize that the whole engine spun around!!!! no wonder there's so much torque on these.
The original rotary engine. No throttle either, it was either full on or off. That’s the reason for the engine cutting in and out on the ground.
What a treat for the folks around the airport!!!
Amazing the plane has rotative engine of the old days which has not been replaced by the modern one.
Un joli coups d' huile de coude pour démarrer le rototo! j' Adore le bruit du moteur Clerget et la bonne odeur d' huile de ricin! Merci pour cette splendide vidéo...
Merci@@markashford4785! j' Avais oublié le moteur Bentley serais se t'il un Bentley BR1 ou BR2?!!
Fantastic flight and love the sputter of the engine!
Working hard there at Fantasy of Flight to get these WW1 machines ready for Oshkosh,thats a big propeller to pull through on the Snipe.
A nice thing to see. Always exciting when they haven't flown in a while.
I drove by during this flight. Cool stuff!
just amazing! Thank you for sharing this video.
Still love your US Army Warrant Officer rank on your surplus flight suit! 👍🏼 Nice flying too Kermit!
I watched you with your p51 man what a lovely lady and look at this bad larry wow!
Can't turn left while taxiing due to the gyroscopic effect of the motor spinning. Crazy to see that much mass spinning around.
What an absolutely beautiful aircraft.
Very cool Kermit....grass looking long!
you guys rock! thank you very much for sharing this!
Proper flying. Thanks for sharing. Use to love visiting Fantasy of Flight.
Sorta creeps me out but I get flashbacks of going to bed smelling like castrol oil and listening for prop noises.I have a small library of original textbooks on engine maintenance and upkeep of old biplanes. Guess the mildew plays tricks.
Man, they get close to that blade! Beautiful plane, really nice job.
I love that this vintage airplane is being started by people with smart phones in their pockets. Anachronistic juxtaposition at its best!
Now I know why they didn't have an instruction 'scramble' in WW1
No such thing as Airplanes They are Aeroplanes !!
For just a second, as he taxis across the grass, your imagination is transported to 1916. Theeeeeen, a huge Connie looms up behind the Sopwith. Oh well. Anachronistic indeed.
Appearantly your car gets operated by someone with no common sense.
Congratulations on posting the most idiotic remark of all time.
Fingers crossed. Kudos to your crew (and you) for keeping these old war birds alive.
That’s not a old war bird it’s only like 7 years old built by TVAL in New Zealand. Not sure about the motor though it might be an original, TVAL has a original motor in their camel, they have built like 30 new old planes, and now build a number of new / old engines as well.
The Lockheed Constillation is in dire need of restoration. It is too beautiful to simply let rot away.
@vachief Looking at the level of neglict and decay on the Constillation, perhaps preservation of it in the current condition would prove to be far more affordable. Making it a huge lawn ornament is still better than scraping it.
Love these videos! Be safe, Kermit!
wow looking so modern even at the end of the war - amazing progress in four years of airplane design.
Those ol radial engines amaze me.... All that spinning mass!
Slim Riddim Rotary, not radial.
@@davidgrainger5994 Yes, so I understand now... I jumped in without thinking. Cheers.
Slim Riddim I screw it up all the time and I have a plane with a big radial on it.
@@davidgrainger5994 lovely!!
What amazes me is the idle - they sound just like s multi cylinder hit and miss engine, akin to a petter or lister.
WoW !! The Snipe sounds and looks good Mr. Weeks ! Considering the ager of your ground crew perhaps you ought to consider making one of the truck-mounted cranking systems for those old rotary I've seen in picture from that era ? Hope all goes well in flying off its hours . Stay safe !
Jeff Hoser: Yes, a Hucks Starter would be very nice to see.
Very good, very beautiful, congratulations!!!
Beautiful. I have always wanted to paint a plane, one like this would be nice.
Look forward to seeing it at Oshkosh!