Ghost picture on Kermit Weeks blog

groundpounder · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:44 am

Not sure if this is old news on here or not , but i was flipping through Kermits blog this morning and about halfway down the first page is a story about paranormal happenings at his museum. In particular i was somewhat .... well i'm not sure what it was, but the picture of the ghost image in the B-17 kinda creeped me out a bit. Just something strange about it.

Check it out here:
http://blog.kermitweeks.com/

JDK · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:19 am

And the working link would be: http://blog.kermitweeks.com/

More interested in the Tempest update: http://blog.kermitweeks.com/?p=1337

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:05 am

JDK wrote:

And the working link would be: http://blog.kermitweeks.com/

More interested in the Tempest update: http://blog.kermitweeks.com/?p=1337

I so lost interest in the ghost when I saw the Tempest V. Wow, I can't wait to see that!

I'll get back to the Ghost, thanks groundpounder for the link. I'll have to keep up on that blog.

What a treat, Bf-109e-1 and Tempest V dreams to keep me though the work day.

Edit: That ghost pict is strange to say the least.

Tim

vernicator · **Joined:** Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:42 am **Posts:** 350

Did anyone catch that the poster for the ghost tours depicts a Lisunov Li-2, the Soviet licence built version of the DC-3?

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:50 am

What about the Tempest V, that would be sweet to see flying again. I have heard that they are handfull just to keep running. I can see Nelson Ezell doing the job after what he did with the Redbull P-38.... :wink:

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:49 am

There are two groups coming out to Grissom to do these Ghost Hunts

richkolasa · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:35 pm

Lynn Allen wrote:

What about the Tempest V, that would be sweet to see flying again. I have heard that they are handfull just to keep running. I can see Nelson Ezell doing the job after what he did with the Redbull P-38.... :wink:

Doesn't sound like it will be flying in the near future, if ever. "Painted for static display" just doesn't do much for me. "with one day having the option of tackling the systems and the engine"...well, time flies my friend.

Rich

Taylor Stevenson · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:58 pm

Is it just me or could that 'ghost' photo be a reflection of someone and the yellow O2 tank?

Dan K · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:02 pm

me109me109 wrote:

Is it just me or could that 'ghost' photo be a reflection of someone and the yellow O2 tank?

I suppose next you'll be telling us there's no Easter Bunny either.

(Uh oh...)

http://chessloser.files.wordpress.com/2 ... -bunny.jpg

richkolasa · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:23 pm

me109me109 wrote:

Is it just me or could that 'ghost' photo be a reflection of someone and the yellow O2 tank?

Killjoy!!

Yeah, if you look close, the "yellow mae west" sure looks more like the reflection of the O2 tank, since it doesnt seem to "wrap around" what would be the person's chest below his beard/stubble.

Rich

SPANNERmkV · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:49 pm

Rochester: Mr. Benny... I don't want nothin' to do with NO ZOMBIES!

Jack Benny: Now Rochester- you go back into the crypt and when Martin Caidan runs out I'll hit him with this baseball bat!

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

I wonder if that is the same "ghost" that stole the engine from his aerobatic plane some months ago?

Django · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:22 pm

I agree that the yellow part is the oxygen tank reflecting, not a mae west. As for if this is really a ghost captured in a pic? That sure would be something! Have any other ghosts been photographed with such clarity? Seems that would be really a unique situation. It's almost too good a pic to even be considered plausible. Who knows?

JDK · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:25 pm

richkolasa wrote:

Lynn Allen wrote:

What about the Tempest V, that would be sweet to see flying again. I have heard that they are handfull just to keep running. I can see Nelson Ezell doing the job after what he did with the Redbull P-38.... :wink:

Doesn't sound like it will be flying in the near future, if ever. "Painted for static display" just doesn't do much for me. "with one day having the option of tackling the systems and the engine"...well, time flies my friend.

C'mon, be fair. No-one has yet restored a Napier Sabre to airworthy use. The work being done on it is, according to Kermit, to airworthy, so won't need to be redone when a airworthy resto is done. No one else has got even this near, and Kermit's a) not 'just painting it up nice', nor, b) obstructing a future airworthy restoration by inappropriate static-quality work. It is also undergoing restoration, unlike many other aircraft.

I'd like to see a Napier Sabre engine aircraft fly, but I don't see being critical of our current best offer is going to help.

Just my 2c, because I don't have all that oil money to make it happen.

RAMC181 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:07 pm

My late neighbour used to be a fairly senior RAF powerplant technician, and worked on Napier Sabres with Typhoon squadrons from 1943 onwards.
He often told of the constant need for repeated overnight engine warmups to keep the oil from setting etc., but one thing will always stick in my mind:

"That bloody engine was like a bumble bee. It shouldn't physically be able to fly, but it bloody well did.... as long as you could get it to start in the first place, without it seizing solid or catching fire.."

Right to the end of his life he always wished he could hear one again.

All the best,
PB

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