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Bede Aircraft Company has since re-formed and has been working on several new designs. Before his death in 2015, Bede hinted at a two-seat tandem version of the aircraft, called the "Super BD-5", using a certified aircraft engine and a number of modifications and improvements, but nothing more than a preliminary design drawing was made available.
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Bede Aircraft Corporation was founded by aeronautical engineer Jim Bede in Cleveland in 1961 to produce the BD-1 kit aircraft, which eventually became the American Aviation Corporation's AA-1. The company also created and produced a number of advanced kit planes including the famous Bede BD-5 ( pusher propeller driven) and BD-5J (turbojet driven).
BD-5. Even while the BD-4 was in development, Bede was working on a more ambitious design, the BD-5 Micro. The Micro was a small single-seater that looked like a jet fighter, with the pilot sitting semi-reclined under a large fighter-like Plexiglas canopy. The fuselage was originally to be constructed from fiberglass panels over an aluminum ...
A pusher aircraft is a type of aircraft using propellers placed behind the engines. Pushers may be classified according to lifting surfaces layout (conventional or 3 surface, canard, joined wing, tailless and rotorcraft) as well as engine/propeller location and drive. For historical interest, pusher aircraft are also classified by date.
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A Bede BD-5, single-seat, home-built aircraft that was somewhat popular in the 1970s (5J version is the smallest crewed jet aircraft) The Beck-Mahoney Sorceress, known as the "winningest" racing biplane in aviation history; A British Hawker Hurricane fighter; A Japanese balloon bomb like the one that killed six U.S. civilians in Oregon during ...
Bede BD-5 1973 1 seat homebuilt, ca.150 built; Bede BD-12 1998 2 seat homebuilt, 1 built; Cirrus VK-30 1988 5 seat homebuilt, ca.13 built; Dornier Do 212 1942 experimental amphibian, 1 built [26] Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster 1944, bomber, 2 built; Douglas DC-8 (piston airliner) 1945, transport project, not built; Douglas Cloudster II 1947 transport ...