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Offline Puma44

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Re: Kermit Weeks is cooler than you are
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2014, 11:01:00 PM »
Glad you enjoyed them.  When I saw the shop, it was evident these guys are in it 110% with the passion.



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Re: Kermit Weeks is cooler than you are
« Reply #16 on: April 27, 2014, 12:06:52 AM »
SHINY STUFF

Aircraft aluminum (SP for you Seppos) sheet is a laminate of sorts with shiny soft corrosion resistant alloy on the outside and a harder less corrosion resistant alloy in the middle.

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Re: Kermit Weeks is cooler than you are
« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2014, 04:07:54 PM »
i fly the cripes almighty skin in game.
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Re: Kermit Weeks is cooler than you are
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2014, 08:03:38 PM »
i fly the cripes almighty skin in game.

He bought that P-51 when he was only 25 years old......Must be nice.

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Re: Kermit Weeks is cooler than you are
« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2014, 08:05:40 PM »
He bought that P-51 when he was only 25 years old......Must be nice.

What a piker.  I had two P-51's by age 12.  Oh, wait.  You are talking about real ones.  Never mind.

Offline Widewing

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Re: Kermit Weeks is cooler than you are
« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2014, 08:23:31 PM »
Kermit has done so much for the warbird and vintage aircraft communities, you probably could not list it all.

Brilliant in many ways. Down to earth. A genuine gentleman.

All of that cannot be disputed.

But, there's no way in hell that he's cooler than me......
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Re: Kermit Weeks is cooler than you are
« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2014, 01:07:17 AM »
Kermit has done so much for the warbird and vintage aircraft communities, you probably could not list it all.

Brilliant in many ways. Down to earth. A genuine gentleman.
Yes, but his mossie looks as if a hobo was sleeping in it.
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Offline TonyJoey

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Re: Kermit Weeks is cooler than you are
« Reply #22 on: April 29, 2014, 01:19:58 AM »
An interesting note from his website about the Wildcat.

"The Wildcat has an interesting flap system that is activated by the vacuum system. Instead of using positive pressure to operate the flap cylinder, this aircraft uses negative pressure or suction. A large tank in the rear of the aircraft stores the “negative” air pressure. At higher speeds, the negative pressure does not create enough force to overcome the air loads to lower the flaps. It will not hurt the system, as in some aircraft, to put the flaps down at high speed. They just simply won’t come down! Pilots used this to their advantage in dogfights and could select the flap handle down before engaging another aircraft. If, during the dogfight, the airplane happened to slow down below a certain speed, the flaps would creep out. This gave the Wildcat a tighter turning radius, which was a major advantage in a dogfight, as they could potentially turn inside the opponent and get on his tail."

This would be a pretty cool feature, hit flaps before a fight in the F4F and have them come out as you slow down.