This blog is a story about an adventure in building a biplane; the Oldfield Baby Great Lakes.
The basic idea is to build the biplane from scratch using no out of pocket money. The money to fund the project comes from finding scrap metal and recycling it for cash.
I own a small plumbing business so I have a constant supply of copper and brass scraps but it's not really enough to build a biplane. I have to go out in the community and gather junk thrown by the curb as garbage and take it in to be recycled.
Besides recycling I'm also taking other builders scraps and using them as well. Fortunately, the Baby Great Lakes is such a small biplane that it doesn't require much material.
Why the Baby Great Lakes?
Well, it's small. The wings can be built in 4 separate panels so it can be built cheap and in a small space. The engine is the lowest cost of just about any other option. The biplane can fly well with a C-65 engine and that is what I will use.
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