Fantasy of Flight founder Kermit Weeks has acquired Howard Hughes' historic 1937 Sikorsky S-43 amphibian for his attraction. Weeks humorously attributes the acquisition to a "visit" or dream from the ...
After a series of tantalizing Facebook posts Kermit Weeks announced yesterday that he has concluded a decade-long quest. The sole remaining flyable Sikorsky S-43 flying boat (of 53 built in the 1930s) ...
Mark Marino of Duluth and Kermit Weeks of Miami, Fla., can both attest that building an authentic replica of a more-than-a-century-old plane from scratch is no simple task. Today, Weeks had hoped to ...