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The Bede BD-4 is an American light aircraft, designed by Jim Bede for homebuilding and available since 1968. It was one of the first homebuilt aircraft to be offered in kit form. [1] It remains one of the world's most popular homebuilts with thousands of plans sold and hundreds of examples completed to date. [citation needed]
In 1982, Harbor Freight Tools opened its first retail store in Lexington, Kentucky, to sell returned merchandise from its mail order business. The original location was at 1387 East New Circle Road. It later moved to 1301 Winchester Road, Suite 213. The venture proved successful, and Harbor Freight Tools began to open stores across the United ...
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]
Need a portable one-car garage in a hurry? No need to put your construction skills to the test. Harbor Freight's 17-by-10-foot carport is one possible answer.
The aircraft features interplane struts and inverted "V" cabane struts. Like most biplanes, the Celebrity has no flaps. The Celebrity's main landing gear is bungee suspended. Cockpit access is via the lower wing. The company claims an amateur builder would need 600 hours to build the Celebrity. [2] [4] [6] [7]
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The resulting design is more complex and more difficult to build than most aircraft marketed for homebuilding. [8] [14] In particular, the aluminum wing ribs are designed to be hydroformed and then tempered. [7] [8] Bartoe therefore marketed wing kits along with Skyote plans through Skyote Aeromarine Ltd. [7] [9]
In early 2017 the company, including all the older aircraft designs, was sold and moved from Redmond, Oregon to Uvalde, Texas under the name Lancair International, LLC. The newest model, the Lancair Evolution , was retained by the existing company, Lancair International, Inc, which changed its name to the Evolution Aircraft Company .