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11 sie 2016 · The aircraft was built in 1970 and first flown in September of 1971 at Hutchinson, Kansas, with Bede at the controls. The prototype BD-5 differs from all later models in that it has a bolted angle frame and a fiberglass outer fuselage shell; later versions have a stamped aluminum semi-monocoque fuselage.
Bede Aircraft Pictures. The original BD-7 prototype at the Bede Aircraft Co. facilities (From BD News magazine, 1976). Don't those seats look like lawn chairs to you? Another view of the same prototype aircraft. Look at all the plexiglass... the view from the cockpit would have been unmatched!
6 lut 2013 · Jim Bede, a polarizing figure, made quite a splash at Oshkosh in 1971. Bede had started his company in 1961 to develop the BD-1, a kit airplane. This evolved in to the AA-1 Yankee which was produced as a certified airplane by American Aviation in Cleveland.
It never really was as far as I recall, and all the flying BD-5s were kludged together with many different powerplant setups. An interesting story! This review calls it the truck-a-plane simulator, and describes using it as “terrifyingly close to the real thing.” Well if it isn't Jim Bede's patented Truck-a-Plane.
Here you'll find pictures, information and web links related to the BD-5 as well as to other Bede aircraft and experimental aviation in general. Enjoy! Former Project: BD-5J - N3038V
It is powered by a Microturbo TRS 18 engine of 240 lb st thrust and first flew in August 2015. Suspended here since 2014, after years of storage at Genk-Zwartberg, not far across the border in Belgium.
The Bede BD-5 Micro is a series of small, single-seat homebuilt aircraft created in the late 1960s by US aircraft designer Jim Bede and introduced to the market primarily in kit form by the now-defunct Bede Aircraft Corporation in the early 1970s.
