Gee Bee Super QED - Paine Field 2015

Here's a short video of the massive Gee Bee Super QED making some passes at Paine Field "Aviation Day" in 2015.
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The Super Q.E.D. II's Wright R-1820 engine gives it more than twice the horsepower of the original Q.E.D.
The original Gee Bee R-6H Q.E.D. was the Granville brothers’ last and burliest completed design, but the late Jim Moss went them one better and built a modified replica of the Q.E.D., the Super II, with more than twice the horsepower, a bigger fin and rudder and 10 percent more wing area. This brute could share a flight line with P-47s and not look out of place; a carpenter’s stepladder for boarding and debarking is part of its minimum equipment list.
The Super II first flew in September 2013, and made its public debut at Oshkosh this past summer. Moss had died just 2½ weeks before his airplane’s first flight, but led by Rich Alldredge the project was completed by the same high-powered team that had helped build the replica from the ground up.
Although the original 1934 Q.E.D. (the letters denote the Latin for “therefore it is proven”) had a 675-hp Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet, Moss discovered that his replica’s cowling could just as easily hold a more reliable 1,425-hp Wright R-1820 from a T-28 Trojan. Long a believer that there’s no such thing as too much horsepower, Moss made the obvious choice.
The Super Q.E.D. II was built as a high-altitude cruiser, and it would be happy at 30,000 feet, where it is probably capable of at least 300 knots with the two-speed supercharged engine at full boost. The original R-6H supposedly could do 196 knots, though at a lower altitude. It had no oxygen system or cabin heater, but the Super II has a gas heater and an integral oxygen system that uses components cannibalized from a 707. The highest it has ever been, however, is 11,000 feet, and that will probably remain its ceiling. “We’re flying it like a piece of history, not as an experimental airplane to find out what it will do,” Alldredge says. Jim Moss’ widow, Judy, hopes to find a museum that will acquire the airplane and keep it on public display as well as flying status. Now based at Olympia, Wash., it may fly some local airshows in 2015.
The Q.E.D. had been built for industrialist Floyd Odlum, who wanted it for his then-girlfriend (later wife) Jacqueline Cochran to fly in the London-to-Sydney MacRobertson Air Race. Cochran made it no farther than Bucharest, Romania, before mechanical problems grounded her, and the R-6H never finished a single one of the four Bendix and Thompson Trophy races in which it was entered. It did set five cross-country records in the hands of Mexican aviator Francisco Sarabia, but it also killed him, in a takeoff crash caused by a forgotten shop rag being sucked into the carburetor.

[@kire5555]

Surround sound gave me radial chills! Love it!

[@johnosbourn4312]

What a unique looking aircraft, Jason. Thanks for capturing it on video, and for providing the story of this jem, as well.

[@P51]

I saw this beautiful BEAST at Reno/Stead a few years back. Chatted with the owners. What great people answering all my stupid questions. IMPRESSIVE in person.

[@KutWrite]

This looks like a two-place cockpit. Love the T-28 engine ever since I flew one.

[@andrewmontgomery5621]

That's El Chupcapbra in the first Planes movie

[@agairinc]

You can sure hear those wires singing at speed. Heard them also in another flight video

[@dougauzene8389]

Gorgeous...Awesome Functional Flying Aeronautical Follow Up to Delmar Benjamin's Prior "Gee Bee" Fabulous Flyers!

[@dp2905]

Jim Moss built this in a garage. 50,000 hours to build. Bigger engine 10% bigger wing and vertical. Wider gear stance,than the original QED. Hence the name " Super QED" Jim Moss died weeks before it first flew. It's now for sale for $ 900,000

[@MsKateeD]

I love this plane! Great filming as always! tfs

[@alsan378]

My son has a hot wheels small plane, amazed this plane realle exist, very nice

[@ZERO_O7X]

These are seriously my favorite planes. They look like you just strapped wings on an oversized engine lol. I have a Matchbox toy of one thats painted exactly like this one on my tv stand as I'm watching this video. That's the closest I'll get to owning one. 😂

[@RedRoosterParty]

Beautiful build. Engine choice may have been the best and most economical available, but it almost seems like an aberration to have anything but a P&W radial in a Gee Bee. The Wrights had good power-to-weight, but a much less pleasing exhaust note, what I call the Wright Thump. Hornets of 900hp are not very common today, and the equivalent P&W engine hp-wise would be the R-1830 which is a two-row engine which is unlikely to have fit in the application.

[@malcolm4956]

🇬🇧Imagine getting a ride in that ❤🇬🇧

[@davidfoster2613]

Hey Jason Another great video.

[@charleshultquist9233]

The original had a smaller cockpit farther back.

[@ekweseman]

I can tell that the Gee Bee features a three-bladed propeller.

[@topgunmaverick379]

Yoooooooooooooo. A Gee Bee 😱😱😱😱😱. Is it still flying or did it just fly that day only?

[@user-yt8uc6eq8p]

Здравствуйте. Спасибо за видео !!!

[@rudyho3790]

90 years...and barely flight forgiving...😁👌

[@KaneLono]

Enough room for you and snoopy!

[@eyesquish485]

what a howl!

[@alanluscombe8a553]

I fly giant scale gas rc geebee model z and r1 and they are scary and fun

[@davalleyguy5020]

I watched designer Adrian Page fly his Bee gee Z that thing was a handful! Not sure if it is still on the market

[@nutshot_brawler8466]

I remember first seeing this in a book about planes when I was like 7, my dad was an aviation enthusiast, and got me into it, and the first thought I had was why is it so fat, because I was so used to seeing propellor aircraft like the A6M, P-36, P-51, and so on, even though the P-47 was fat, the Gee Bee to me was next level fat

[@geronciofilho4731]

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