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	Bede 5a
		Bede pushed the kitplane design envelope again with the BD-4 by building the wing using his patented "panel-rib" process.
		Bede fixed the lack of directional stability as soon as flight-testing began late in September 1971.
		Bede claimed that the powerplant sipped just 4 gallons per hour of fuel to give the BD-5 the range to fly about 1,610 km (1,000 miles) at a ceiling of 4,256 m (14,000 ft).
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/bede5a.htm (1232 words)

	Bede BD-5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bede BD-5 is a small, single-seat homebuilt kit aircraft that was introduced in the early 1970s by Bede Aircraft Corp. It was designed by Jim Bede.
		It is a pusher aircraft design, with the engine installed in a compartment in the middle of the fuselage, and a propeller in the rear.
		The BD-5J is the jet version of the aircraft, the result of mating the BD-5 fuselage and a shortened 17-foot (5.18 m) wingspan with the Microturbo TRS-18 turbojet engine, manufactured by Microturbo in Toulouse, France, and by Ames Industrial in the United States under license from Microturbo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bede_BD-5 (971 words)

	Grumman American
		Aircraft designer, Jim Bede had established himself as a smart designer for amateur kit built aircraft and though he came up with some great designs this was by far the most interesting and perhaps had the greatest effect on the industry as a whole.
		Bede developed a honey comb structure which formed the wing with the skin "bonded" forming a rivet less smooth wing.
		The aircraft concept with its canopy and low price was upgraded with various combinations of interior packages, the most popular being the "Tiger" and the aircraft was fitted with up to 180hp power.
	www.ftlcomm.com /ensign/planes/grummanAmerican/grummanamerican.html (889 words)

	The BD-5 Restoration
		Designed by James Bede in the 1970s, it was to be a home built plane that could fly over 200 mph using just a 40hp engine.
		Bede Aircraft Company went bankrupt in 1979 and a company called BD Micro Technologies Inc now sells the BD-5 airplanes.
		After Bede went bankrupt, Bede-Micro Aviation in San Jose, California, was formed to carry on the BD-5 and provide an improved engine for the aircraft, a turbo-charged Honda Civic automobile engine.
	www.starksravings.com /bd_5/bd_5_program.htm (399 words)

	BedeCorp - History of BedeCorp
		Bede's list of aviation design achievements is staggering: 18 innovative aircraft that include standouts including the exciting piston-engined BD-5 pusher and BD-5J mini-jet, which has thrilled a generation of air-show crowds; the twin-finned fighter-
		Intended as a kit plane, it was the first homebuilt aircraft to reach the public consciousness, as articles in Popular Science and other general circulation magazines kicked off a deluge of inquiries.
		Sons Jim Jr., who also runs a successful environmental remediation company; Jeff, an aircraft fabrication expert; and daughter Nancy Davis, a petite dynamo who owns her own company, form a professional business team that allows Jim to devote his time to aircraft design and consulting that he was born to do.
	www.bedecorp.com /history.htm (869 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Ask Us - BD-5J "Acrostar" Microjet
		The credits of the film state that the aircraft is called the Acrostar that was built and piloted by John William "Corkey" Fornof.
		The goal of Bede Aircraft Corporation was to develop low-cost and easy-to-fly planes for the homebuilt market.
		Bede went through several different engines for the piston version but was never able to find one of sufficient reliability and availability to meet the needs of his market.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /question/planes/q0256.shtml (1336 words)

	Bede ("Johnny", Craig Wall))
		He may be washed up in the aircraft business, and I am not saying that is a bad thing, but his designs and his design influences will go on for as long as there are people out there that want to go fast, simply and cheaply.
		They continued to reduce the number of "like" parts on the aircraft, which increased the cost to beyond that of the trainers they were wrongly trying to compete with in the first place.
		Bede is not the mercenary people think he is. He's a talented designer of "almost" airplanes.
	yarchive.net /air/bede.html (3110 words)

	Bede XBD-2
		Jim Bede and his father James Bede with the intention to develop and produce in series light aircraft formed Bede Aircraft in 1961.
		Bede’s first design XBD-2 was a twin-engined high-lift pusher STOL (Short Take-Off and Landing) research aircraft.
		In the wing upper surface 164,000 holes were drilled, varying from 0.020 to 0.029 in (0.5 to 0.737 mm), to suck the air from the wing and discharge it rearwards through thrust augmentors.
	www.1000aircraftphotos.com /HistoryBriefs/BedeXBD2.htm (256 words)

	Aircraft kit BD17 Nugget offers home built airplane kit at low cost with quick build time.
		Some aircraft kit manufacturing offer quick built kits, these meet the 51% rule, but do have a great deal of sub assembly work already fabricated.
		By reducing the total number of parts on the aircraft to 110 items, it is obvious these can be assembled in one-tenth the time it would take to assemble a project of 1100 parts.
		At this stage, we are convinced that an individual will be able to complete his aircraft ready for flying in less than a week.
	www.bedeaerosport.com /pages/buildtime.html (507 words)

	Some assembly required: this model airplane seats two and is designed for mach 1.4 Omni - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bede explains, "I wanted to design an airplane as personal transportation that a nonprofessional pilot could fly easily It contains no complicated systems, yet is exceptionally stable and reliable." The BD-10 is even being scrutinized by a number of foreign governments as a possible trainer.
		But Bede believes the noise footprint of the BD-10 is so small at 0.7 pounds-per-square-foot over pressure (a measure of noise pollution; any value under one is technically inaudible), compared to over 2.3 for the Concorde SST, that supersonic cross-country flight might become a reality some day.
		FAA regulations require the owner to actually be involved in at least 51 percent of the aircraft's construction process to qualify it as an experimental aircraft.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1430/is_n6_v17/ai_16595633 (804 words)

	Jim Bede - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bede was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and studied aeronautical engineering at Wichita State University, graduating in 1958.
		Bede felt the way to solve this problem was to have the prospective pilot build their own aircraft, as labor costs were a major part of the overall price of a delivered aircraft.
		Bede also moved on to design the BD-6, a smaller BD-4 with the Hirth engine, and the "new" Bede BD-7, a two-seat side-by-side version of the BD-5 of which a prototype was built.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Bede (4364 words)

	The History of Kansas Aircraft Manufacturing -- 1899-1993: Aviation History: Wings Over Kansas
		In all, approximately 266,500 aircraft, including kits, have been manufactured by Kansas aircraft companies, or their licensed affiliates up through this historical listing to the year 1993.
		American Eagle Aircraft Company and Inland Aviation Company were originally located in Kansas City, Mo. before relocating to Kansas City, Kans. Aircraft Production numbers for these companies are listed with Kansas City totals listed first, followed by overall production totals that reflect production in both locations.
		Okay Aircraft Company and Brantly Helicopter Company were headquartered for a short time in Kansas; however, their manufacturing facilities were in Oklahoma.
	www.wingsoverkansas.com /history/article.asp?id=93 (1575 words)

	James R. Bede (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		James Bede, (bee-dee) a graduate of Wichita State University in aeronautical engineering, began his career as a performance engineer with North American Aviation in Columbus, Ohio, in the early 1960s.
		Jim Bede recalled the opening scene of the movie 'Octopussy' in which Bond had a fuel problem with his micro-jet and landed on the road, then pulled into a gas station.
		After years of aircraft design and engineering, James R. Bede used his experience to develop the Bede automobile in a joint effort with Bede Industries, Inc., of Cleveland, Ohio which was owned by J.R. Bede's cousin named James D. Bede.
	www.autocycles.org /bede.html (339 words)

	BedeCorp - BD-17 Nugget
		The BD-17 incorporates everything that famed aircraft designer Jim Bede has learned in 45 years of aircraft design and engineering.
		Jim Bede's goal was to design an aircraft that can be built quickly, with maximum attention to simplicity.
		Using modular design, the result is an aircraft you can put in the air in 125- to 200 man hours of labor, as either a tricycle gear or tail-wheel aircraft, with a choice of three solid engines.
	www.bedecorp.com /designs/bd17/features.htm (491 words)

	Roger Mellema's BD-4 Newsletter #26
		Bede Aircraft, Incorporated, was founded in 1958 to design aircraft specifically for amateur construction, and to supply complete materials for the construction of such designs.
		Jamer Richard Bede was born in Erie, Pennsylvania on Aril 17, 1933.
		It was the first light aircraft to use a method of structural bonding that had only previously been used in supersonic jet aircraft.
	www.bd-4.org /newsletter26.html (9253 words)

	About Facts Net
		He is probably one of the most famous designers of aircraft in the world.
		It was a jet with a large cannon that extended almost the length of the plane.
		Of all the aircraft builders today Rutan is the most innovative and his planes are among the most unusual in the air.
	aboutfacts.net /People30.htm (711 words)

	Aircraft and Marine Assurance Agency
		We, the staff of Aircraft and Marine Assurance, will continue to provide nothing less than the outstanding service that you have come to expect from us.
		A brief history of Aircraft and Marine is in order for your enlightenment of how we started, and how we have contributed to the continuous growth of AYA.
		This article gave detailed information about this new American aircraft, and how Bede would be able to place one in every garage in America.
	www.aircraftandmarine.com (269 words)

	BD-5 and other Bede aircraft pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The original BD-7 prototype at the Bede Aircraft Co. facilities (From BD News magazine, 1976).
		The engines originally came from aircraft such as the Boeing CH-47 medium transport helicopter used by the US Army and other armed forces around the world.
		The large tube just aft of the wheels is the center spar; the cable running in between the wheels to the rear of the aircraft is the flap control cable.
	www.bd5.com /bd01001.htm (1065 words)

	Subsonic Personal Jet (SubJet) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Spring 1996 promises to be an exciting and challenging semester for aircraft design.
		The subsonic, 2-seat, general aviation jet is 1 of 2 design groups.
		The other group is designing a 600-passenger, transonic jet transport.
	www.ae.utexas.edu /design/subjet (35 words)

	Bede on Design
		This series of video tapes which have been produced by EAA cover 7 phases of aircraft design and the many decisions to be made by the designer.
		My best description is that they provide clarity to the concepts that are described in technical detail in other publications.
		However the experienced aircraft designer or seasoned engineer may find them a bit basic and somewhat lacking technically.
	www.amtbooks.com /Bede_on_self_design.htm (189 words)

	Jon Ruthven's BD-5 Homebuilt Aircraft Project
		After watching me flounder around in my own shop, on right, trying to put together the bits and pieces of the kit Bede Aircraft was sending me occasionally, he offered me his well-equipped shop.
		Bede was last located in the St Louis area and did taxi tests on the BD-12.
		Unfortunately, I hear that the BD-12 crashed and Bede is bankrupt.
	home.regent.edu /ruthven/bd-5.html (1130 words)

	N624BD, BD-4 Serial #1
		It was to be an amateur built aircraft from either a complete kit of parts, or scratch built from plans only with a minimum of support and parts from the Bede Aircraft Company.
		Jim had used many unique concepts in his design of the BD-1, such as the aluminum tube spar which was extruded to shape and cut to length, requiring a minimal amount of drilling and assembly to have the wing's load carrying structure built.
		The plane had been sold as part of the assets of Bede Aircraft in 1979, and had been in the process of being modified by Bede Aircraft with some structural changes that had been developed over the years since it was originally designed and built.
	www.mindspring.com /~n76lima/n624bd (1631 words)

	News & Information - Ohio Northern University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bede, of Medina, Ohio, will be speaking at 7:30 p.m., April 22 in the Forum in James F. Dicke Hall.
		Bede is an aeronautical engineer, pilot, and builder of a number of aircrafts of his own design.
		He created the industry’s first complete kit aircraft, as well as an airplane designed for the sportsman, and an economical commuter vehicle that looked like a jet plane, handled like a sports car and provided the affordability and operating economies of a motorcycle.
	www.onu.edu /news/news2005/aiaaregional.shtml (411 words)

	Bede on Design
		Bede on Design: Aircraft designer Jim Bede began his career on the F-4 Phantom.
		Since then he has designed several aircraft including the popular BD-4, BD-5, and BD-10 jet.
		They are available by themselves or as a set of seven at a discounted price.
	www.actechbooks.com /Bede_on_self_design.htm (180 words)

	want_New
		This aircraft was number 122 in a series of 280 aircraft built for the Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) and was the last F-86 in its inventory.
		This particular aircraft was used in the retirement ceremonies that the JASDF had for their F-86's.
		The museum obtained the aircraft in November of 1997 and is in the final stages of restoration.
	www.wmof.com /want.html (1077 words)

	BD5J
		The BD-5J is a single seat home built kit aircraft that was introduced in the early 1970s by Bede Aircraft.
		Few kits were completed due to the company's bankruptcy in the mid 1970s due to the failure to deliver reliable engines.
		The aircraft used a Microturbo TRS-18 turbojet engine which was manufactured in France and in the U.S. under license from Microturbo.
	www.aviationtrivia.homestead.com /BD5J.html (97 words)

	Who's Who at Litestar Pulse
		Bede, using his Bede aircraft design as the basis, developed an autocycle design, which was an enclosed motorcycle and called it the BD 200.
		Bede's role in the Litestar project was as an engineering consultant and partner in Tomorrow Corp.
		Douglas Walsh......Doug was hired by Bede to build the BD-200 in the fall of 1980.
	www.autocycles.org /pulsewho.html (627 words)

	Propeller drive systems and torsional vibration
		As aircraft engine prices continue to rise beyond the reach of most who would like to build and fly their own aircraft, many are turning to alternate power sources.
		The damping action of the tires on the road and the inertia effects of the mass of the automobile are not even close to the damping/inertia effects of a propeller turning in air.
		In a low frequency, torsionally soft system like that developed at Bede, the clutch chatter frequency is low and the amplitude of rotational vibration is high, as the RPM passes through the resonance point.
	www.prime-mover.org /Engines/Torsional/contact1/contact1.html (6898 words)

	Antony Maitland Autobiography
		This aircraft was being bought by a group of local business people, principally for their own use, but to be used for outside charter work when available.
		The aircraft remained there for a couple of weeks while the fuel tanks in the left wing were changed and the propellers reset so that the reverse thrust worked.
		As usual, the aircraft was not quite ready on arrival, and Mark had to be back in the UK by a specific time to take his family skiing in his helicopter.
	www.antonymaitland.com /aaamtext.htm?price=0.00 (23635 words)

	BD-17 Nugget the Kit airplane
		The Nugget is a single place, single engine, low wing, high performance sport aircraft.
		The BD-17 is an all metal airplane, no fabric other than the cushions, which you can build as a tricycle gear or tail dragger.
		The BD-17 Nugget is a relatively small aircraft with a roomy cockpit.
	www.bedeaerosport.com /BD17.html (160 words)

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