Building a Great Lakes Sport 2T Sport Trainer

Great Lakes 2T1A-VR I-ESON
"the Outatime Flyer"

The italian Great Lakes: A long journey from dream to reality

Everything begun (or better, roused back) during a winter evening of year 2004. I was annoying and zapping television, when suddenly my attention was catched by a vision: a big, red biplane gently flying low over an american town. The movie was Walt Disney's "the Kid", starring Bruce Willis, persecuted by his youth's dream of flying his Stearman bipe, no more realized.
It was just like a flash hit my mind into its remote corners, and my passion for flight suddenly raised back from a too-long sleep...read more >>

Headlines: Great Lakes European Squadron founded in Farnborough, UK

See also Nov'07 News

Building the "outatime flyer" Diary
Diary updated 15-March-08

Restoration/construction started on May 2005. My Great Lakes has been inspected on April 2006 and much has been done since the container arrived from the USA.
This section follows the restoration/construction process step by step

Visit to the USA: meeting with Don Sergent

While in the USA to crate the acquired project, Mr. Davis organized for me a meeting with Don Sergeant at Cheraw airport, SC. We flew in the morning into a Cessna 172 and met Don in front of one of the others GLs he built, he showed me a lot of details, gave me a lot of suggestions and I shot dozens of photos.

Drawing, modelling and building the Engine cowl

One of the biggest challenge in the construction of the Great Lakes was about the Engine Cowling.
I'm going to fit a LOM 6 cylinders engine, and this makes everything quite complicate. Infact, there are no engine cowls for this engine on the Great Lakes and no drawings exist.
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