Gee Bee Z Engine Roar on Taxi Run
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2013
- Kermit Weeks hops into his Gee Bee Z for a taxi run, moving one step closer to a possible future flight. You can feel the engines power through your speakers, as she throttles up...raising the tail wheel, and flattening the runway grass.
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The coolest looking plane ever 😍😍
Kermit Weeks- A preserver of aviation history; a true American hero.
I love that she's painted in the scheme from "The Rocketeer"!! Gorgeous airplane!
You are utterly wrong here - they painted the one in "The Rocketeer" just like the original one, as the did with this one.
The GeeBee racer came out long before the movie the Rocketeer. The movie copied the original aircraft.
@@TDCflyer lol so not "utterly" wrong. Little dramatic there...
Now THAT'S an engine with wings.... And some sizable Cajones.
My Dad, George S. Armistead flew one of these GeeBee Q.E.D. in the 1938 air races!
Hope to see this beauty in the air again one day** Take care of you and her Kermit!!
Hopefully at Oshkosh this year! Jim Moss' Gee Bee QED is going to be there if they get everything sorted out before then! It would be great to see them in the air together!
Thank you Kermit for allowing others to see the planes you have.
John
Way to go Kermit! I greatly appreciate you taking the time to share these video's. I'm sure there are thousands of us across the globe who get a thrill watching and learning about aircraft like this. The sound of that big powerful radial is music to my ears! Thank you, and can't wait to see that bird lift off again!
Be careful, if you sneeze in this thing you'll wind up, upside down in a bean field.
also dont forget to put a wad of chewed beeman gum on the rudder for goodluck
No the gum will just end up on the bottom of someone’s shoe
All we need now is Howard Hughes to join the party.
Que the rocketeer music
Did they ever fly it?
Thanks Kermit for sharing on of the coolest airplanes ever !
Fabulous, just Fabulous. Thanks Kermit for FF. I wish so much they would do a modern film on a great air races of the thirties featuring this and similar aircraft.
This is a copy of a Gee Bee racing aeroplane, the "City of Springfield" (Massachusetts), which was designed and manufactured by the Granville Brothers Aircraft of Springfield, Massachusetts. This and others such as the "7-11" were fast but unstable aircraft and were involved in at least one fatality. They were very successful aircraft in the air races of the time.
That engine sounds like a monster! Incredible plane!
Kermit REALLY NEEDED a Gee Bee! Nice!
Model Z! My favorite and a great flying model as well!
Would be great to see a video of it flying, safely. I hope some day I get to see Kermits planes, even though the museum is now closed to the public....
Regards from Alaska!
Incredible to witness.
Gee Bee Z is a darn nice machine!!!
CLOSED? DAMN, its on my bucket list.
Would love to see a Kermie Cam of a flight of this plane!
I hate to say this, but I've just got to. It looks like someone tried feeding that great big engine to a bumblebee. Love that radial sound.
Awsome guy!
Was hoping to see this Plane and the R2 this weekend. Sadly Fantasy of Flight is now closed to the public. Maybe i'll gte lucky and find a way to setup an event there one day. :(
KERMIT please bring this to Oshkosh ....... I need/want a nice photo for my Man Cave............. or I could find a way to Florida I guess.
Take me with you ... So fun !
Interesting to see the tail start to lift, and then the instananeous reaction -- power off and brakes released -- to drop it.
It just dawned on me what to paint my Road King.
Let's see...A short coupled fuselage, a gross weight roughly equal to a Cessna 172, but with less than half the wing area, and 3X the horsepower, equals high speed, but questionable handling characteristics. Notice the tail rise with full aft stick...And to think the original Gee Bee Z that killed Lowell Bayles, had just been fitted with a P&W Wasp Sr., rated @ 750HP...Yikes!
I look forward to seeing it fly!
Absolutely awesome. That is one beautiful little aircraft. I can't help but wonder what it cost you to restore/rebuild the Wasp.
So much torque, so little torque-resistance. Yikes, Kermie... be careful!
Well itz been some years now. When are yu going to fly it.
Amazing, informative, exciting and sexy, all rolled into one
I've been very lucky and flown a lot of planes and have done quite a few test flights in war birds,jets etc and more than my share of questionable stunts with airplanes...................Even though this is my childhood dream plane that got me into flying I dont know if I'd try if given the chance and I've been lucky to test fly some rare birds.I did have a chance at a sim that some friends attempted to load the GeeBee's flight characteristics into and it was a absolute nightmare that was like trying to walk barefoot on a knife edged balance beam.Granted the guys that set it up couldnt mimic the feedback and feel of the controls too well in the time they had and the rates were probably off it was the best they could do considering it was a unauthorized experiment in a VERY expensive simulator that wasn't theirs LOL
a real sim,I probably could if I had to but I wouldnt want to.It is so demanding and you are always on the edge that it is far from fun.Even in a sim it wants to ground loop constantly and that is just the beginning.
When are you going to fly the Super Solution?
No. THat one was a bit out of scale and adjusted the proportions to increase flyability. This one is an exact replica.
my Dad said they were colloquially called " Flying Milk-Bottles " when Jimmy Doolittle flew them !!!
What's the tail dragged made out of
best looking plane ever, I am kinda partisan though :p
I were ever to get to heaven, I'm going to request a copy of Kermit's fleet.
Jesus fly the ol girl
The urge to punch it..... I only intended to do some fast taxiing.....
2:11 - Is than Connie at the background ?
Can it RC?
When are we going to see this bird in flight Kermie?
If he will do, let us to suggest to him to buid in something like a BRS System. I like you Kermit!
Bill Turner built did the restoration on this correct? If so, I wonder if this was one of the GeeBee's built at KRIR (Flabob) here in California.
This is actually the replica built by Jeff Eicher and Kevin Kimball in Florida in the mid 1990's. It was built to the same specifications and utilized the same P&W Wasp Junior engine as the original model Z. The Bill Turner version was modified slightly to make it more "pilot friendly," and currently resides at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington.
Robert Theflyinhawaiian thank you, forgive the horrible grammer... Happy New Year! Clear skies and tail winds
Happy Near Year to you as well, and may all your landings be happy ones!
And did you ever fly that beauty?
We are still working on flying it again . . . in the meantime you can watch Kermit fly it from this archived clip. ua-cam.com/video/2zfbrVTSb3A/v-deo.html
Fantasy Of Flight --- beautiful plane. Definitely take your time and fly it if its safe following your instincts. Better be smart and humble than braggin rights and 7 feet under....
So what ever happened to Delmar
These were flying - well, most of the time, anyway! - death traps. With current aviation regulations they'd never let you get this near a runway.
Here ya go..
ua-cam.com/video/og1MHoYY-mc/v-deo.html
absolute rubbish. Delmar Bemjamin had 1500 hours up in the R2 replica.
isn't that number "4" the same number used by Lowell Bayles that crashed in 1931 ???
Yup
Yes, this is the replica of the plane he crashed.
the Flying Coffin.
I heard its as unstable as ever an aircraft could be!!!
You heard wrong. Ask Jimmy Doolittle or Delmar Benjamin, the former flew the original and the latter flew an accurate replica of the R2 as well as this particular one
I'd take up Russian roulette, or juggling live cobras rather than flying a GeeBee widow maker.
Question , why does this old man seems to be the only pilot ???? Who flights these cool aircraft ???
Because he owns them all. Kermit Weeks is the owner of the largest private collection of vintage aircraft in the world. He houses them at his aviation facility and attraction, Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida. You can follow more of his videos on his Kermit Weeks Hangar UA-cam Channel. ua-cam.com/users/KermitWeeksBlogVideo
Thank you for the information,, tell him,, to let other people who work for him to have a turn !!! lol
this plane should be upgraded to the counter rotating propn both should have 5 blades
Wanna do a roll just let go of the stick, the torque will take you there. Yikes!
A short stogie plane.
Even today so many people are experts who know this thing is nothing but a death trap. You know nothing.
Anyone can safely drive an extremely fast car like a Bugatti Veyron, as long as they drive carefully and don't try to break world speed records. Go for breaking records and you are outside the safe envelope and crashes and deaths will happen - thats what they did with those GeeBees.
Coffin.
why build a plane your deathly afraid to fly? Grow some balls man! Hell Ill fly the damn thing! The "Look what I got" don't work with real pilots
marty dufrene do you know any?
marty dufrene Marty, very few of the BEST pilots in the world tamed the Gee Bee! Most of them ended up being killed in it eventuallly! Balls will only get you in the air! Any fool can do that! Once you break ground, then you will wish you were back home in bed! Let me put into perspective for you! See if you can drive a car in reverse for 1 lap around a race track doing 60 mph! Flying this Gee Bee is WAY more difficult than that! You need more skill than balls!
Jimmy Doolittle stated this after his original test flight, "“I didn’t trust this little monster. It was fast, but it was like balancing a pencil or an ice cream cone on the tip of your finger. You couldn’t let your hand off the stick for an instant.” The nose and wings blocked airflow to the tail, as Doolittle learned when he took the plane up to practice pylon turns and it snap rolled twice before he could stop it.“If I hadn’t had some altitude,” he guessed, “I would have been dead.”
Contrary to all the BS being marketed here, the Granville Brothers took great care to design their aircraft to be as safe as possible, including having their own wind tunnel. But they were designed to be fast and competitive in air races, after all that was their very reason for existence, and so they had some vices and were certainly a handful.
Kermit...Is this the same aircraft that Steve Hinton flew in the film The Rocketeer? It was rumored that for the film, extra wing length was added to enhance stability. Can you guys confirm? Love all the shows.....Mike
Oh My Gosh.... my Favorite plane of all time..... cant wait to see it fly!!!!!!