Bede Bd5
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Bede Bd5
Can someone fill me in on the history of these. There is almost always one or more partially completed kits for sale on ebay USA, but never completed one.
Some with Honda engines and others with 'jet' ones.
Was there a story about very bigs plans for sales, deposits paid and something went wrong.
Were they ever allowed in the UK
and did any actually fly (if se were they any good)
Some with Honda engines and others with 'jet' ones.
Was there a story about very bigs plans for sales, deposits paid and something went wrong.
Were they ever allowed in the UK
and did any actually fly (if se were they any good)
This is the website:
http://www.bd5.com/
A builders website:
http://home.regent.edu/ruthven/bd-5.html
Budweiser used to fly one at airshows;
http://www.bd5.com/
A builders website:
http://home.regent.edu/ruthven/bd-5.html
Budweiser used to fly one at airshows;
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Hi PS not good news the PFA and CAA wont allow them to fly in UK, a local chap has one and had to get it onto the S. Irish register! Took it over last weekend to test fly it. Not sure of the results, I maybe able to update you tomorrow (Sunday) as I havent spoken to Bob since the test! Sorry for the sketchy information.
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Report in the Telegraph this morning of an engine failure on take off leading to a crash and fire, in Australia.
Pilot survived with back injuries and burns.
There was an air test of the BD-5 by Bob Grimstead in this month's Pilot - looks like the same aircraft? (There were two photographed in the Pilot article. The crashed aircraft was definitely one of the two, not sure if it was the test aircraft).
Pilot survived with back injuries and burns.
There was an air test of the BD-5 by Bob Grimstead in this month's Pilot - looks like the same aircraft? (There were two photographed in the Pilot article. The crashed aircraft was definitely one of the two, not sure if it was the test aircraft).
I remember a conversation with the chap at CAA who was, I believe, responsible for formulating the decision not to allow the BD5 into the UK.
His argument seemed fairly straightforward - about 50% of all BD5s completed had suffered fatal accidents, and that wasn't something that CAA particularly wanted to buy into.
Whilst I'm not an over-fan of the nanny state, I have to say, he had a point.
G
His argument seemed fairly straightforward - about 50% of all BD5s completed had suffered fatal accidents, and that wasn't something that CAA particularly wanted to buy into.
Whilst I'm not an over-fan of the nanny state, I have to say, he had a point.
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Newforest wrote
"Sounds like the Flying Flea, part 2."
See the Ord-Hume article in Popular Flying, March I think.
Most of the FF accidents (and there were'nt actually very many in the UK) were down to pilot inexperience (in one case the pilot had no license!) or inadequate construction and power. The aircraft itself did have a fatal flaw which could be provoked, which was easily remedied but too late for the UK authorities.
Nothing to do with the BD5 of course.
"Sounds like the Flying Flea, part 2."
See the Ord-Hume article in Popular Flying, March I think.
Most of the FF accidents (and there were'nt actually very many in the UK) were down to pilot inexperience (in one case the pilot had no license!) or inadequate construction and power. The aircraft itself did have a fatal flaw which could be provoked, which was easily remedied but too late for the UK authorities.
Nothing to do with the BD5 of course.
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Poor southerner: to go back to your original question - you might find the wikipedia entry for Jim Bede interesting.
There's quite a comprehensive section on the BD-5 A, B and J variants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bede
Genghis - if you only consider the -5A (short wing) variant - ALL four completed airframes crashed on their maiden flights, 3 fatally
On reflection, I think I'll stick to the Extra.......
There's quite a comprehensive section on the BD-5 A, B and J variants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bede
Genghis - if you only consider the -5A (short wing) variant - ALL four completed airframes crashed on their maiden flights, 3 fatally
On reflection, I think I'll stick to the Extra.......
Last edited by waldopepper42; 24th May 2007 at 13:53. Reason: spelling
Genghis - if you only consider the -5A (short wing) variant - ALL four completed airframes crashed on their maiden flights, 3 fatally
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There is a BD5 hanging from the ceiling of the Aviation shop in Sacremento Old Town CA.
Firstly it was a surprise to find such a good shop in a cowboy tourist trap, secondly to find a BD5 hanging in there!
I remember reading an article in Airplane Monthly back in the early '70s on these, looked promising then....
Firstly it was a surprise to find such a good shop in a cowboy tourist trap, secondly to find a BD5 hanging in there!
I remember reading an article in Airplane Monthly back in the early '70s on these, looked promising then....
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I remember as a kid going to Minuteman Airport in Stow, Massachusetts with my Dad on most Saturdays for breakfast, and following the progress of a BD-5 being built in one of the hangars. To a 10 year old (this was late 70s), it seemed like they were always going back and forth from week to week. One Saturday the wings would be on, the next they'd be off, that sort of thing.
I never knew if they ever finished it or not.
Pitts2112
I never knew if they ever finished it or not.
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. Did it survive?
