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Bookmark or Share- Home of the BD-5 AircraftThe BD-5 is a high performance single-place, low-wing, pusher-configuration sport plane. Design features include all-metal construction, mechanical retractable landing gear among the industry finest, detachable wings,and wrist action side stick control as in modern day fighter aircraft.
- Bede BD-5: the nightmare of pilots - AeroTimeIn the late 1960s, the U.S. aircraft designer Jim Bede created the first-ever Bede BD-5, which belonged to the series of single-seat homebuilt aircraft. It has a small, streamlined fuselage with space under a canopy for a semi-reclined pilot and an engine in the middle of the fuselage.
- Bede BD-5 - Specifications - Technical Data / DescriptionThe Bede BD-5 is a series of single-engine single-seat homebuilt sports aircraft designed by American Jim Bede. The kit was produced by Bede Aircraft Corporation. The variant BD-5J is powered by a small Microturbo TRS 18 turbojet engine with 1.45 kN (326 lbs) thrust which makes it the world?s smallest jet aircraft.
- The Tiny Bede BD-5 Was A Homebuilt Plane With Remarkable Abilities, And ...This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the Bede BD-5 Micro: a plane famous for its design and abilities but feared for its penchant for sending pilots to an early grave. For about as long as there have been planes there have been entrepreneurs and engineers trying to make aviation more accessible to the masses.
- Why Did This Crazy Kitplane Kill So Many Pilots? - HistoryNetJim Bede aimed high with his little homebuilt BD-5 bullet, but engine woes and questionable financial moves caused him to overshoot the target. Flying out of Wels, Austria, Rupert Überacker and his piston-engine Bede BD-5G are regulars on the European airshow circuit. (Dietmar Schreiber)
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