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]
| Oldfield Baby Great Lakes | |
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| Role | Sport Aircraft |
| National origin | United States of America |
| Manufacturer | Barney Oldfield Aircraft Company |
| Designer | Andrew Oldfield |
Design and development
editThe 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
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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
edit- Super Baby Lakes
- Accommodates engines over 100 hp (75 kW)
- Buddy Baby Lakes
- Two-place variant
Specifications (Oldfield Baby Great Lakes - 80 hp A80 engine)
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Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1988–89[6]
General characteristics
- Crew: one
- Length: 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m)
- Wingspan: 16 ft 8 in (5.08 m)
- Height: 4 ft 6 in (1.37 m)
- Wing area: 86.0 sq ft (7.99 m2)
- Empty weight: 475 lb (215 kg)
- Gross weight: 850 lb (386 kg)
- Fuel capacity: 12 US gal (10.0 imp gal; 45 L)
- Powerplant: 1 × Continental A-80 Horizontally opposed piston, 80 hp (60 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 117 kn (135 mph, 217 km/h) at sea level
- Cruise speed: 103 kn (118 mph, 190 km/h)
- Stall speed: 43 kn (50 mph, 80 km/h)
- Service ceiling: 17,000 ft (5,200 m)
- g limits: ± 9g
- Rate of climb: 2,000 ft/min (10 m/s)
See also
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References
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- ^ "Baby Great Lakes Biplane Home". Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ Sport Aviation. May 1958.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Popular Science June 1970, p. 117
- ^ a b Don Dwiggins. Build your own sport plane: with homebuilt aircraft directory.
- ^ Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co (2011). "Baby Great Lakes". Retrieved 3 May 2011.
- ^ Taylor 1988, p. 558
- "All These Planes You Can Build". Popular Science. Vol. 196, no. 6. June 1970. pp. 98–100, 116–117.
- Taylor, John W. R., ed. (1988). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1988–89. Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Defence Data. ISBN 0-7106-0867-5.