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Oldfield Baby Great Lakes

Oldfield Baby Great Lakes

Type of aircraft

The Oldfield Baby Great Lakes is a homebuilt sport biplane. The aircraft has many known names, including the Baby Lakes, Oldfield Baby Lakes, Baby Great Lakes, Super Baby Lakes, Super Baby Great Lakes, and Buddy Baby Lakes[1]

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Design and development

The Baby Great Lakes was designed by Barney Oldfield, and originally built by Richard Lane, to be a scaled-down homebuilt derivative of the Great Lakes Sport Trainer.[2]

The Baby Great Lakes is built using 136 ft (41.5 m) of steel tubing for the fuselage with aircraft fabric covering.[3] The wings use spruce spars. The aircraft can accommodate engines ranging from the Continental A-65 to the Volkswagen air-cooled engine.[4]

Operational history

Oldfield Baby Great Lakes

The prototype was not intended to be produced in quantity, but enough plans were requested that the aircraft was marketed as a homebuilt design.[4] The rights to the Baby Great Lakes were acquired by Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co in May 1996.[5]

Variants

Super Baby Lakes
Accommodates engines over 100 hp (75 kW)
Buddy Baby Lakes
Two-place variant

Specifications (Oldfield Baby Great Lakes)

Oldfield Baby Great Lakes with canopy fitted

Data from EAA

General characteristics

  • Crew: one
  • Length: 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
  • Wingspan: 16 ft 8 in (5.08 m)
  • Empty weight: 480 lb (218 kg)
  • Gross weight: 850 lb (386 kg)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Continental A-80 Horizontally opposed piston, 80 hp (60 kW)

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 117 kn (135 mph, 217 km/h)
  • Cruise speed: 96 kn (110 mph, 180 km/h)
  • Stall speed: 43 kn (50 mph, 80 km/h)
  • Rate of climb: 2,000 ft/min (10 m/s)

See also

References

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  1. [1]
    "Baby Great Lakes Biplane Home". Retrieved May 3, 2011.
  2. [2]
    Sport Aviation. May 1958. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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    Popular Science. June 1970. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. [4]
    Don Dwiggins. Build your own sport plane: with homebuilt aircraft directory.
  5. [5]
    Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co (2011). "Baby Great Lakes". Retrieved 3 May 2011.
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