Great lakes open cock pit bi-plane

The big, comfortable stick produces Gs with light pressure, and you can't help but feel like a World War I ace. It found use as a basic trainer from the early s onward. I staged out of the grass runway at South Lakeland Airport during the last day of the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In and headed south to stay clear of the airshow at Lakeland Linder field. Can you imagine a better way to learn to fly than in a Great Lakes biplane? Power-on stalls are similarly unexciting, though the combined area of the four wings allowed me to hold about 40 degrees of pitch with no tendency to break left or right. Takeoff with a With full fuel

Fast-forward 40 years to the Sun 'n Fun air show in Lakeland, Fla. Check out the photo's pages for pictures. Some homebuilders have built their Lakes with 2 ailerons only and some have built their Lakes with 4 ailerons.