The coolest looking plane ever 😍😍

I love that she's painted in the scheme from "The Rocketeer"!! Gorgeous airplane!

@TDCflyer

4 жыл бұрын

You are utterly wrong here - they painted the one in "The Rocketeer" just like the original one, as the did with this one.

@Agislife1960

4 жыл бұрын

The GeeBee racer came out long before the movie the Rocketeer. The movie copied the original aircraft.

@enceladus2263

3 жыл бұрын

@@TDCflyer lol so not "utterly" wrong. Little dramatic there...

Kermit Weeks- A preserver of aviation history; a true American hero.

My Dad, George S. Armistead flew one of these GeeBee Q.E.D. in the 1938 air races!

Now THAT'S an engine with wings.... And some sizable Cajones.

Hope to see this beauty in the air again one day** Take care of you and her Kermit!!

@jpatt1000

10 жыл бұрын

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!

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.

Be careful, if you sneeze in this thing you'll wind up, upside down in a bean field.

@gregson99

7 жыл бұрын

also dont forget to put a wad of chewed beeman gum on the rudder for goodluck

@squeaks3814

6 жыл бұрын

No the gum will just end up on the bottom of someone’s shoe

@stevenholt458

5 жыл бұрын

All we need now is Howard Hughes to join the party.

@ianmeadows3527

5 жыл бұрын

Que the rocketeer music

@pappyodanial

4 жыл бұрын

Did they ever fly it?

Thanks Kermit for sharing on of the coolest airplanes ever !

Kermit REALLY NEEDED a Gee Bee! Nice!

That engine sounds like a monster! Incredible plane!

Model Z! My favorite and a great flying model as well!

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.

CLOSED? DAMN, its on my bucket list.

Would love to see a Kermie Cam of a flight of this plane!

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!

Gee Bee Z is a darn nice machine!!!

Incredible to witness.

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.

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!

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. :(

So much torque, so little torque-resistance. Yikes, Kermie... be careful!

Absolutely awesome. That is one beautiful little aircraft. I can't help but wonder what it cost you to restore/rebuild the Wasp.

Well itz been some years now. When are yu going to fly it.

It just dawned on me what to paint my Road King.

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

@southjerseysound7340

8 жыл бұрын

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?

Interesting to see the tail start to lift, and then the instananeous reaction -- power off and brakes released -- to drop it.

No. THat one was a bit out of scale and adjusted the proportions to increase flyability. This one is an exact replica.

I were ever to get to heaven, I'm going to request a copy of Kermit's fleet.

What's the tail dragged made out of

Take me with you ... So fun !

my Dad said they were colloquially called " Flying Milk-Bottles " when Jimmy Doolittle flew them !!!

I look forward to seeing it fly!

When are we going to see this bird in flight Kermie?

@paraandro

8 жыл бұрын

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.

@flyinhawaiian5848

7 жыл бұрын

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.

@fed8925

7 жыл бұрын

Robert Theflyinhawaiian thank you, forgive the horrible grammer... Happy New Year! Clear skies and tail winds

@flyinhawaiian5848

7 жыл бұрын

Happy Near Year to you as well, and may all your landings be happy ones!

Amazing, informative, exciting and sexy, all rolled into one

The urge to punch it..... I only intended to do some fast taxiing.....

2:11 - Is than Connie at the background ?

best looking plane ever, I am kinda partisan though :p

Jesus fly the ol girl

Can it RC?

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.

@gimiesome

6 жыл бұрын

Here ya go.. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oZtlr6qoibyTncY.html

@natalianesterova2107

5 жыл бұрын

absolute rubbish. Delmar Bemjamin had 1500 hours up in the R2 replica.

So what ever happened to Delmar

isn't that number "4" the same number used by Lowell Bayles that crashed in 1931 ???

@8-bitstorm

7 жыл бұрын

Yup

@Rob_Moilanen

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is the replica of the plane he crashed.

And did you ever fly that beauty?

@FantasyOfFlight

6 жыл бұрын

We are still working on flying it again . . . in the meantime you can watch Kermit fly it from this archived clip. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZK6axNSPhLbIY6Q.html

@mazpr2025

6 жыл бұрын

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....

Question , why does this old man seems to be the only pilot ???? Who flights these cool aircraft ???

@FantasyOfFlight

6 жыл бұрын

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 KZread Channel. kzread.info

@Dan-un4vt

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the information,, tell him,, to let other people who work for him to have a turn !!! lol

I'd take up Russian roulette, or juggling live cobras rather than flying a GeeBee widow maker.

I heard its as unstable as ever an aircraft could be!!!

@TDCflyer

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

Wanna do a roll just let go of the stick, the torque will take you there. Yikes!

this plane should be upgraded to the counter rotating propn both should have 5 blades

the Flying Coffin.

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

@DavidSmith-jj5pr

9 жыл бұрын

marty dufrene do you know any?

@benniewilliams2019

9 жыл бұрын

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.”

@Geebax2

3 жыл бұрын

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.

Oh My Gosh.... my Favorite plane of all time..... cant wait to see it fly!!!!!!