"1982 World Aerobatic Championship" - From The Archives
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มี.ค. 2015
- From the archives. Kermit Weeks flies his Weeks Solution in the 1982 World Aerobatic Championship in Spitzerberg, Austria... Winning the Free Program event.
- บันเทิง
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.
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
Hahaha Kermit you look like one of the Bee Gees. Excellent video. Thanks
Holy cow Kermit Weeks! You are so chill and sooo humble.
Wow, thank you!
Kermit my man.. you survived the 70s with a smile.. congratulations.
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.
Getting to know your History and Depth, My deep Respect and Appreciation.
The 1980s..great decade.
Outstanding ! I was watching ABC wide world of sports 1982 - great show you put on !
Judges looked a bit stunned …. Cool
Legend Kermit,thank's for posting.
Turns out we do have an “old bold” pilot amongst us.
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
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!
Gosh, we were so young then, me now 63 and Kermit still 29, at least in spirit...
I did not know this, #1 was Kermit Weeks of the USA, Winner of the 1982 World Aerobatic Championships (Congratulations! Well done sir.)
Thanks for that Kermie. Had no idea you had history like this.
Allways comes back to this videoclip Excellent performance Yf Bjørn Magnus
Fantastic. This is what makes me want to fly. I need to watch more like this!
Damn!! Kermit has SKILLS!!!!!! Impressive! I did not know about this. Very impressive.
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
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.
Great aerobatic skills for sure. Glad you posted this video, it is a pleasure to watch. You are truly a man of many skills.
Energetic and precise, good effort Mr. Weeks. Bravo....
So cool...and he lives right down the road from me!
Absolutely fantastic Kermit, loving this footage. Our Nationals start next week, well and truly primed!
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!
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!
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
... 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 :-)
wonderful footage of space and time by one of the foremost devotee to flying and entertainement - thanks from germany ;-)
that was an amazing aerobatic performance, Mr. Weeks, I'm so impressed. I wish I'll be half as good as you someday.
“On Any Sunday” soundtrack, man!
O my gosh. How friggin kool was this. I had no idea you did that. Wow. I am impressed for sure... Really neat Kermit..
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
Nice work Kermit.
You're a star Kermit. Fantastic
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 👍
Great video. Thanks for posting.
Crazy aerobatics. And you have aged like a fine wine.
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.
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.
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.
WOW!! I’m planning to visit Fantasy of Flight in January 2020! Can’t wait!!
That is more than awesome!
Nice skills!
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!
An inspiration to all us aviators.
Thanks!
My stud finder started blinking when I started this video.
Thanks for posting. You still have that plane.
That was beyond cool
I'm not surprised by his skill, he's a rock star, damm he can fly holy molly!!
Dang Kermit, what a show!
Very nice!!
wow so cool kermit i did not rember this was so cool you raceing your airplane RR roger roger :)
Flying a routine like that would be a full body workout for sure.
Kermit flys, breaths, talks, leaves aircraft.
Love it. Thumbs up.
Great such a brave heart
Well, I didn't know that!!! What a thrill. Good show Kermit, good show.
No wonder! He's a good dam pilot!!
Excellent.
Awesome 😎
Awesome
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.
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.
Man! You were a fantastic pilot!!!!
Do you have more videos like this?
You have a new fan!!!!
Still is!
"Cloud of dance"❤❤❤
Put more kermie cams up I love watching them please
Cool ✌️
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.
Awesome job by the way;)
Wow! i've never seen Kermit fly (contests) before! thanks for this! biplanes forever!
Can you post more archival videos?
WOW! YES!
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.
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.
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
Epic
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.
Ehm, I might be a bit late, but ... Congratulations anyway! Great video!!!
Cool!!
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...
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.
Hot Damn that is some flying. Negative snap rolls? No thank you. Amazing bird too.
🏁🏁🏁💪👍💪👍✌😇👍💪👍💪🏁🏁🏁
Trop fort Kermit !
Cool stuff! Thanks for the memories. Having been to Oshkosh around 10 times, do you have any old Air Venture footage to share?
super cooooolllllll!!!!
yepper!!
This video made me wonder if there are any books out about Kermit which contain any kind of Bio? If not there should be.
I would like to see all that in Hollywood movie. It will be very good movie
"That Kermit Weeks shure is a show man!" True True.... ;-)
CCCOOOOOOLLL !!!
Nice to see some colour in your beard kermit 🙂
Hi Kermit, I would love to see your weeks solution in this current state. I believe she was damaged in hurricane Andrew. Wikipedia say the aircraft currently in storage for restoration?
Also I'll like to ask. If you were to redesign the weeks solution to complete against todays aircraft. What changes would you make? Would it still be a biplane?
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 !