Great, mr Weeks! In 82--88 I was a student of Kharkiv aerospace univercity (in Ukraine) and remember your name from that times. Now I watch your channel wiith great pleasure as a pro scale modeller and former aviation engineer. Good luck for you!
I got to see Kermit at NAS Lemoore performing 15 vertical rolls about this year. My neck was sore from looking so far up for so long. I always remember it being I was about 16 years old and just in awe. Aviation was just wonderful back then.
I watched Mr Weeks and all the competitors from USA aerobatic team who were practicing at Strathallan Airfield Scotland in July 1986. Kermit’s Black Weeks Solution was simply mind blowing. Chatted to Gene Beggs polishing his aircraft. Great display of professional pilots.
I did not know that you were a world champion. Thanks so much. you have my respect before but now it's even more and now i understand a lot more why you love flying
What a treat to watch! Those were the days, when TV sports covered aviation. Today all you see is Red Bull Air Racing, which I love, but would really like to see more coverage of events like this.
It's great hearing Art Scholl's voice in this video. I was on set for the movie "Top Gun" for several months. It was sad that he died when his plane went down when during filming. This hard to believe it's been 34 years ago now. Great flying Kermit.
Me too! My dad was a Pennzoil distributor so whenever Art would come to town in his Chipmunk I got to help with ground crewing. Once I held one of the poles with the line he'd cut with his vertical stab while inverted, great memories! THE WORST job for a 13-15 year old was hand cranking that engine!
A true passion never dies. This explains it all...well...at least in part. Now that we have seen the early passion and the later, advanced passion. Share with us some of the middle Kermit. If you will please. My hat is still off. o7 ~ your neighbor
Hi everyone, this is Sandi Holt. I was married to Amos Buettell back in the day. I can remember many of your names and faces so I thought I'd reach out to you. Thank you all for embracing Amos when he was his over-zealous self (and I say that fondly) . He so loved the sport and all of you. With Kind Regards......
Gezzzz what a pilot. This person is amazing. Now, I think he owns the best/largest private collection of historic aircraft in the world! Incredible what he has done to keep the history of aviation..... Alive. Thank you Mr. Weeks. Living the dream!
Okay Kermit... at this point... you need to start listing stuff you haven't accomplished!.... Awesome video! Great to see what all can be accomplished by talent, dedication, and perseverence... Thank you very much for sharing!
bought a old abused r/c weeks solution, I was never much into biplanes, but back in the 80's saw a old guy flying 70-80" scale Weeks Solutions- the models sure looked impressive... finally got one, got reading about them, was cool reading about Kermit and his planes- and that he is still building and flying :) eager to get this old 'solution' back in the air- its a 70" 55cc, weighs 14 pounds
Holy crap! Your really a hoodlum disguised as an old guy! 😂 The Weeks Special was not weak that’s for sure. Do you still have that airplane! You obviously did not burry yourself in it which I’m sure we all appreciate. It’s just incredible the extent that your into to the airplane stuff. I’m blown away every time I watch another video. Thanks for letting us hang out with you at the airport.
So no one had the guts to pick on him about the crazy hat. The disassembly, assembly and flying required and delivered was amazing. But that hat was wrong even for that time :) love it Big K!
... that's amazing footage and remembers me when I was looking at this special machine at the sky:-) Thanks to sharing this great document of history especially from Austria my homeland :-)
Great fun to watch, and man, you were not squeamish about negative turns, negative push to climbs at surprising moments (the best evasion maneuver when anyone is on your six), and the rolling turns were slow and beautiful... wow. Great performance, and thanks for your lifelong investment into aviation, and aviation education. Fair Winds and don't ever stop.
It was cool when Wide World of Sports actually showed something other the same ol baseball, basketball, football that networks show now. They used to cover the Reno air races.
Yes, ABC Wide World of Sports was really great back in the 1970's up to the mid to late 1980's. You never knew what you would get the privilege of watching. I really miss those days.
ripmax333 Just FYI. Ultimate Aircraft is/was? a Canadian manufacture of aerobatic biplanes. The red/white/blue plane with Linda Meyers name on it was built by Kermit Weeks it is the Weeks Special. The black plane was also built by him and is called the Weeks Solution. For increased maneuverability planes are designed less stable. Both planes are probably more tricky to fly than a Pitts Special and demand full attention.
Great Man... I wish I had the money to help him with the restoration of the planes... Only skill I have is being a master ship wright and tooling and molds, with some mechanical skill's... My a super big fan of the seaplanes, being I flew on them as a kid to Catalina Island over 30 times, from the Sikorsky VS-44A Mother Goose in 1959 to 1983 on a Grumman Mallard... Love my Seaplanes...
Kermit i have a beautiful professionally built 33%weeks solution with D&B 3.7 TWIN the aircraft is so beautiful that im scared to fly it!! i guy drove down from Michigan to deliver it to my home town in virginia! it is white gold and black with the same scheme as your bi plane!
@@KermitWeeks444 one day i will! i hear its the one of the best flying bi plane's ever made! great job on the design, you were before your time on the build in my opinion
I knew about that, and to this day still think it's WAY cool to have your name listed above Leo's in ANY aerobatics championship. That's saying something.
I wonder'd what Kermits background was , That was awesome display almost like a rc plane being tossed round snap rolls , everything wow superb flying , I would trust him to fly me in his warbirds no worries, Now How to get to the States lol Come to Australia m8 ! @Kermit !
It was obvious he was a great pilot from his other videos, it I didn’t realise he was THIS GOOD!
He's a "natural".
Great, mr Weeks! In 82--88 I was a student of Kharkiv aerospace univercity (in Ukraine) and remember your name from that times. Now I watch your channel wiith great pleasure as a pro scale modeller and former aviation engineer. Good luck for you!
Thank you
I got to see Kermit at NAS Lemoore performing 15 vertical rolls about this year. My neck was sore from looking so far up for so long. I always remember it being I was about 16 years old and just in awe. Aviation was just wonderful back then.
Holy cow Kermit Weeks! You are so chill and sooo humble.
Wow, thank you!
I watched Mr Weeks and all the competitors from USA aerobatic team who were practicing at Strathallan Airfield Scotland in July 1986.
Kermit’s Black Weeks Solution was simply mind blowing.
Chatted to Gene Beggs polishing his aircraft.
Great display of professional pilots.
WOW...WOW....Kermit
You the MAN.....without
A Doubt....I am so so
Impressed...Thank You
For Fantasy of Flight
I did not know that you were a world champion. Thanks so much. you have my respect before but now it's even more and now i understand a lot more why you love flying
Getting to know your History and Depth, My deep Respect and Appreciation.
What a treat to watch! Those were the days, when TV sports covered aviation. Today all you see is Red Bull Air Racing, which I love, but would really like to see more coverage of events like this.
Allways comes back to this videoclip Excellent performance Yf Bjørn Magnus
Legend Kermit,thank's for posting.
Fantastic. This is what makes me want to fly. I need to watch more like this!
The 1980s..great decade.
Gosh, we were so young then, me now 63 and Kermit still 29, at least in spirit...
Kermit my man.. you survived the 70s with a smile.. congratulations.
Thanks for that Kermie. Had no idea you had history like this.
Damn!! Kermit has SKILLS!!!!!! Impressive! I did not know about this. Very impressive.
Outstanding ! I was watching ABC wide world of sports 1982 - great show you put on !
Judges looked a bit stunned …. Cool
Weeks Solution!!! That's wonderful!!!
This videos takes me back to the good old days.
Enjoyed this blast from the past. Nice to see a young Kermie also.
Turns out we do have an “old bold” pilot amongst us.
It's great hearing Art Scholl's voice in this video. I was on set for the movie "Top Gun" for several months. It was sad that he died when his plane went down when during filming. This hard to believe it's been 34 years ago now. Great flying Kermit.
Me too! My dad was a Pennzoil distributor so whenever Art would come to town in his Chipmunk I got to help with ground crewing. Once I held one of the poles with the line he'd cut with his vertical stab while inverted, great memories! THE WORST job for a 13-15 year old was hand cranking that engine!
Hahaha Kermit you look like one of the Bee Gees. Excellent video. Thanks
I did not know this, #1 was Kermit Weeks of the USA, Winner of the 1982 World Aerobatic Championships (Congratulations! Well done sir.)
“On Any Sunday” soundtrack, man!
A true passion never dies. This explains it all...well...at least in part. Now that we have seen the early passion and the later, advanced passion. Share with us some of the middle Kermit. If you will please. My hat is still off. o7 ~ your neighbor
Hi everyone, this is Sandi Holt. I was married to Amos Buettell back in the day. I can remember many of your names and faces so I thought I'd reach out to you. Thank you all for embracing Amos when he was his over-zealous self (and I say that fondly) . He so loved the sport and all of you. With Kind Regards......
Hi Sandi, I remember reading about Amos as a kid in a book called ‘One Zero Charlie’… it’s a story that has always stuck with me. All the best
So cool...and he lives right down the road from me!
Great aerobatic skills for sure. Glad you posted this video, it is a pleasure to watch. You are truly a man of many skills.
O my gosh. How friggin kool was this. I had no idea you did that. Wow. I am impressed for sure... Really neat Kermit..
Gezzzz what a pilot. This person is amazing. Now, I think he owns the best/largest private collection of historic aircraft in the world! Incredible what he has done to keep the history of aviation..... Alive. Thank you Mr. Weeks. Living the dream!
Okay Kermit... at this point... you need to start listing stuff you haven't accomplished!.... Awesome video! Great to see what all can be accomplished by talent, dedication, and perseverence... Thank you very much for sharing!
You're a star Kermit. Fantastic
Nice work Kermit.
An inspiration to all us aviators.
Thanks!
bought a old abused r/c weeks solution, I was never much into biplanes, but back in the 80's saw a old guy flying 70-80" scale Weeks Solutions- the models sure looked impressive... finally got one, got reading about them, was cool reading about Kermit and his planes- and that he is still building and flying :) eager to get this old 'solution' back in the air- its a 70" 55cc, weighs 14 pounds
WOW!! I’m planning to visit Fantasy of Flight in January 2020! Can’t wait!!
It was awesome hearing Art Scholl give commentary was definitely the highlight of this video for me.
Yea, It's sad listening to Art knowing he would be killed in his Pitts in just a few years while filming for Top Gun.
I'm not surprised by his skill, he's a rock star, damm he can fly holy molly!!
Holy crap! Your really a hoodlum disguised as an old guy! 😂 The Weeks Special was not weak that’s for sure. Do you still have that airplane! You obviously did not burry yourself in it which I’m sure we all appreciate. It’s just incredible the extent that your into to the airplane stuff. I’m blown away every time I watch another video. Thanks for letting us hang out with you at the airport.
I had the amazing ride of my life in a Pitts Special when I was a teenager. Amazing and beautiful little airplane, Kermit fantastic routine 👍
wonderful footage of space and time by one of the foremost devotee to flying and entertainement - thanks from germany ;-)
Great such a brave heart
Absolutely fantastic Kermit, loving this footage. Our Nationals start next week, well and truly primed!
that was an amazing aerobatic performance, Mr. Weeks, I'm so impressed. I wish I'll be half as good as you someday.
Crazy aerobatics. And you have aged like a fine wine.
Dang Kermit, what a show!
So no one had the guts to pick on him about the crazy hat. The disassembly, assembly and flying required and delivered was amazing. But that hat was wrong even for that time :) love it Big K!
Well, I didn't know that!!! What a thrill. Good show Kermit, good show.
... that's amazing footage and remembers me when I was looking at this special machine at the sky:-) Thanks to sharing this great document of history especially from Austria my homeland :-)
Very nice!!
Great fun to watch, and man, you were not squeamish about negative turns, negative push to climbs at surprising moments (the best evasion maneuver when anyone is on your six), and the rolling turns were slow and beautiful... wow. Great performance, and thanks for your lifelong investment into aviation, and aviation education. Fair Winds and don't ever stop.
Awesome 😎
That was beyond cool
It was cool when Wide World of Sports actually showed something other the same ol baseball, basketball, football that networks show now. They used to cover the Reno air races.
Yes, ABC Wide World of Sports was really great back in the 1970's up to the mid to late 1980's. You never knew what you would get the privilege of watching. I really miss those days.
Flying a routine like that would be a full body workout for sure.
Awesome video. Art Scholl narrating...wow.
Fast1Air I was lucky enough to see Art fly several times when I was a kid. Just incredible.
Fastest aerobatic plane looking forward
Crazy motorcycle riding
Great to hear Art's voice!
@@klextacy saw Art fly his Chipmunk up at Stead Air Base during the Reno Air Races 1983.
Kermit flys, breaths, talks, leaves aircraft.
Thanks for posting. You still have that plane.
wow so cool kermit i did not rember this was so cool you raceing your airplane RR roger roger :)
wow those vertical rolls were amazing, nice to see an ultimate biplane in action aswell.
ripmax333 Just FYI.
Ultimate Aircraft is/was? a Canadian manufacture of aerobatic biplanes. The red/white/blue plane with Linda Meyers name on it was built by Kermit Weeks it is the Weeks Special. The black plane was also built by him and is called the Weeks Solution. For increased maneuverability planes are designed less stable. Both planes are probably more tricky to fly than a Pitts Special and demand full attention.
Not a Ultimate. Both highly modified Pitt's. Called the Weeks Special and Weeks Solution.
That is more than awesome!
Nice skills!
Well ... I knew Kermie flew old aeroplanes, like WW1 stuff - I did not know he was an ex world aerobatics competitor... Very impressed!
+Kneedragon1962 I didn`t know either. Not just a competitor but the world champion!... Damn!
World Champion over Leo and Henry! That is saying something.
Great video. Thanks for posting.
My stud finder started blinking when I started this video.
Love it. Thumbs up.
Man! You were a fantastic pilot!!!!
Do you have more videos like this?
You have a new fan!!!!
Still is!
Awesome
Excellent.
I would like to see all that in Hollywood movie. It will be very good movie
Great Man... I wish I had the money to help him with the restoration of the planes... Only skill I have is being a master ship wright and tooling and molds, with some mechanical skill's... My a super big fan of the seaplanes, being I flew on them as a kid to Catalina Island over 30 times, from the Sikorsky VS-44A Mother Goose in 1959 to 1983 on a Grumman Mallard... Love my Seaplanes...
"Cloud of dance"❤❤❤
Put more kermie cams up I love watching them please
This video made me wonder if there are any books out about Kermit which contain any kind of Bio? If not there should be.
Wow! i've never seen Kermit fly (contests) before! thanks for this! biplanes forever!
WOW! YES!
Wow sir.
Kermit i have a beautiful professionally built 33%weeks solution with D&B 3.7 TWIN the aircraft is so beautiful that im scared to fly it!! i guy drove down from Michigan to deliver it to my home town in virginia! it is white gold and black with the same scheme as your bi plane!
Awesome. Crank her up!
@@KermitWeeks444 one day i will! i hear its the one of the best flying bi plane's ever made! great job on the design, you were before your time on the build in my opinion
Cool ✌️
Hot Damn that is some flying. Negative snap rolls? No thank you. Amazing bird too.
TH-cam loves irony. Straight after watching this and listening to Art Scholl, I got a 3 minute ad for the new Top gun movie (Maverick). RIP Art.
I knew about that, and to this day still think it's WAY cool to have your name listed above Leo's in ANY aerobatics championship. That's saying something.
I have an rc quarter scale version ❤️
Awesome job by the way;)
🏁🏁🏁💪👍💪👍✌😇👍💪👍💪🏁🏁🏁
Trop fort Kermit !
I wonder'd what Kermits background was , That was awesome display almost like a rc plane being tossed round snap rolls , everything wow superb flying , I would trust him to fly me in his warbirds no worries, Now How to get to the States lol Come to Australia m8 ! @Kermit !
@The Bullfrog so true, God damn I'd love to go in that Mustang ! I've been rc flyer for too many years !
super cooooolllllll!!!!
Epic
Nice video!
I don’t look up to people... I think it’s naïve and generaly a waste of time. But for Kermit I make an exception, what a cool guy!
Thank you so much.
"That Kermit Weeks shure is a show man!" True True.... ;-)
Can you post more archival videos?
yepper!!
Ehm, I might be a bit late, but ... Congratulations anyway! Great video!!!
Nice to see some colour in your beard kermit 🙂
Kermie cam 1982
I want to see that routine in the Curtis!
CCCOOOOOOLLL !!!
Cool!!
Come Josaphine in my flying machine....