BD-10 Home built Jet Promotional Video

[@cfrincon]

Of the five original prototypes built, three crashed killing the pilots and the remaining two where declared "unflyable" for obvious reasons. In the final analysis the best that can be said of the BD-10 is that it was a widely optimistic design way way ahead of its time.

[@mooneyesplays7]

As I understand, of the 2 that didn't crash, one bent the tail plane so badly it literally couldn't fly again, and the other very VERY carefully never had fuel in it.

[@luke8857]

As an engineer I can tell what the problem is --- with the material. Supersonic jets have to be made of a transition metals such as Titanium, Aluminum, or Steel Alloy. To make it out of plastic - as the BD seems to have been made of - means nothing but trouble. Plastics cannot handle the supersonic boom. The wings are apparently not of a swept design which has never worked for supersonic travel. Even if the material could handle the sheering force of a sonic boom, the wing sweep angle is entirely wrong. This plane was designed by a person with zero knowledge of supersonic planes. Dr. Howard Hughes, F. Director, Hughes Aircraft Company.

[@Triple_J.1]

@@luke8857 Ditto. The same can be said about the BD-5... Zero knowledge about anything. It was longitudinally unstable with far to small of tailplane. The entire concept was based on attaining 240mph on 32hp and required almost 100% laminar flow to achieve. But Bede used a METAL structure of riveted aluminum, that had be definitively proven to be unable to attain any measurable laminar flow over two decades before, on the P-51. Just absurdly ignorant EnGuHnEErinG. And it was sold in the thousands to the tune of several million dollars and 60-80 employees hired before a single prototype was made flyable. ... such is the power of magazine ads.

[@FoFo-gm2iv]

In 2023 it's possible to test such a design and use newer technology

[@cfrincon]

​@@FoFo-gm2iv Actually the overall design of the DB-10 was sound but the problem was that you can't built a high performance supersonic aircraft out of your garage no matter how good the design and quality of the parts may be. There's a reason why only top aerospace contractors can built these types of airplanes.

[@alexthai4957]

Will get interesting when that ladder starts banging around at altitude!

[@OneCupOfCoffee204]

Would love to see an HD video made in this century with the actual sound of the engine.

[@r.daniels1165]

Along with SR-71 Blackbirds, Apollo Mission Rockets and modules, I test flew this homemade jet. Despite the propaganda relaying this jet to being dangerous, I can firmly reassure the flying community, this is a jet that is very safe to fly.

[@SemperCrayon]

R. Daniels I am no engineer, but would building an all composite version solve the structural issue

[@yeagermcbipper9008]

To bad all the people this plane killed cannot be here to argue THEIR side of the. The BD-10 is an ACKNOWLEDGED DEATH TRAP. The designers even admitted it, You're a shitty pilot if you think 3 our of 5 kits killing people is 'safe'

[@RevGary]

@@yeagermcbipper9008 it's entirely possible that those who died hadn't assembled the aircraft properly or were pushing it too far. Then again maybe you just know it all 🤔🤣

[@SpiralPowerGaming]

The composites caused the issue.

[@georgewhitworth9742]

@@yeagermcbipper9008 Ah yes, show more of your prideful nature against someone who just has different takes on this design

[@Bruno-Guitarist]

I think it looks really really good

[@TacticalTightwad]

Somebody had way too much fun with their Ampex ADO-1000 in post production. How 1990's can you get?

[@ThomasDoubting5]

Ha ha 🤣

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

Knowing the price of the equipment; probably some external company. Also, the ADO-1000 came out in the second half of the 80s and was outdated by 1990.

[@mauriceevans6546]

Really great video! Keeps me excited for the day I can order my plane. Looking forward to next video!

[@emadjoseph2803]

This project shouldn’t have stopped

[@fhuber7507]

Someone should resurrect the design and solve the structural issue. Just too cool of an airplane to not have these things getting built.

[@clive373]

Someone should engineer a carbon kit!

[@deathstrike]

I don't understand why the Air Force or Navy didn't consider this design for a trainer? If the plane lives up to its promises, this would make a very effective, simple, low maintenance aircraft. Now yes I know it would have to have extensive redesign to make it military spec, but even with that, it seems a better prospect than a turboprop or the aging but highly respected T-38 or the Naval Hawk trainer. And possibly even a very light strike fighter with high subsonic or low supersonic (Mach 0.8 to Mach 1.1) this is a good opportunity for a non government entity to make a bigger name for itself.

[@oxcart4172]

Theyre thinking about it. (Theres a video online about the new Bede company which I saw a few days ago-he didn't promise, but they need another project to do) It does seem a waste of engineering and design for it not to go anywhere

[@ejcheli]

So badass. I wish there was more innovation today, sadly GA seems to be dying and all the pilots I've met are senior citizens. Always wanted to fly but skyrocketing costs and regulations (at least in the US) are just too much for me.

[@cup_and_cone]

You're right about GA... Regulations have pretty much slowed innovation. The amount of time and money it takes to get anything new into production, and then have it stick, is a massive undertaking. There's a reason people are buying $800,000 Cirrus SR22's and getting a Continental engine that's going on 40 years old in design. Insurances premiums and are higher than ever, too, thanks to a record number of incidents. Maintenance? A good A&P is near impossible to find now, and labor rates are as expensive as they've ever been. Forty years ago, a high school kid could work part time at the movie theaters and pay their way for a PPL. Today that would be completely impossible. There's a reason the majority of young people getting their PPL today are either born to affluent families, or have families with aviation background (i.e. family member is CFI and/or own a plane).

[@fuffoon]

3 of 5 of these crashed. 2 killed. I'm not sure that this is the innovation that we want.

[@georgewhitworth9742]

@@fuffoon But thats the risk of innovation. We have to keep pushing if we want to get anywhere.

[@thomasbell7033]

I dunno about that. General Aviation was widely considered "dead" when I began working on my private ticket in 1987. Apparently the reports were premature.

[@Amr_lotfy]

@@fuffoon maybe pilot error , bad weather , specify reason for crash ??

[@cyberspectre8675]

In this video, the effects have effects.

[@yujinishii7185]

I remember seeing one in a chino hanger that borrowing space from my uncle. It had a subaru engine. It was so cool. I heard it killed a marriage but not the owner

[@MsCathrynC]

A Subaru engine? You must have been looking at a BD-5 single seat. The BD-10 was only available with a jet turbine.

[@aflyertwo]

That is the BD5 your talking about not the jet.

[@lookronjon]

Carl Gerker A BD-5J. Is a jet. I’m looking for a kit that might have been put away and forgotten about. I have a friend that wants one. The second best fighter pilot. Ed Sykes is the best.

[@TheWorldsnotenough]

The Viper Jet is succeeding and is being sold. I dont believe it to be supersonic however, but at 4-500 mph ground speed, and a couple loops and barrel rolls, I dont think you even rember that you wanted to go super sonic in the BD10

[@flightevolution8132]

The Viper Jet failed spectacularly. The company is out of business and the kits that they did sell needed professional builder help to complete.

[@AerospaceMatt]

@@flightevolution8132 Didn’t the Viper Jet sell more kits though? The BD-10 (I think) sold 5, and 3 crashed, all 3 crashes were fatal. I did some research and didn’t find evidence of a Viper Jet crash. I think there’s 5 completed Vipers and 2 still in the process of being completed.

[@jnelchef]

Cue Top Gun music "ride into the teeny tiny danger zone!"

[@crl15]

As I recall, they only built five of them. Three killed their pilots in crashes, and the other two are grounded in museums.

[@hectorkeezy1499]

Chad R. Larson Hi Chad. Was it the planes that killed the pilots, or the pilots that couldn't handle the High performance ? It seems to me that there's a good reason why airforcepilots train for so long, to learn how to fly hi performance jets without flying them into the ground. I had a skiing buddy back in the early eighties, who flew the F 104 Starfighter, for the Royal Danish Airforce. ( INE) He said to me: " I allways think twice before I execute any controlmovement, or flick any switch". Do you know if it is possible to access the accident investigationreport ? THAT would be interresting to see. Best wishes. Hector Keezy. Denmark

[@__________________________6451]

It was being used to test the pressurisation system and to expand the flutter envelope from 280kt (520km/h) to 410kt, to clear the aircraft for its planned, maximum Mach. The pilot held a commercial pilot certificate with airplane ratings for single engine land, multiengine land, and instruments. According to the company, he graduated from U.S. Air Force flight training in 1967, and flew single and twin engine fighter-type aircraft for 9 years. The pilot's total flight time was estimated by the company as 11,433, with 63 hours accrued in the BD-10 aircraft. NB: Copy & Pasted www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20001206X02760&ntsbno=LAX95LA067&akey=1

[@EtzEchad]

IIRC, it didn't have an ejection seat so if anything went wrong, you were doomed.

[@rjschneid47]

Picky picky

[@LiberyTree]

Drop a less powerful, more economic engine into it, forget anything near mach and just have fun.

[@billtev9846]

Why much better than the Iranian air force jets.

[@yonigofman7178]

XD

[@lookronjon]

I asked my friend to ask Russ Mayers if he would build this again with modern building technology. I will hear what he said in a few days.

[@Tinman97301]

Any word yet?

[@Hug_life]

Yea curious if anyone wants to touch this kit since 3/5 built had fatal crashes. Although if I’m being honest, I think this is just what will happen when Amateur pilots start flying a high performance aircraft with no military training or anything similar to prepare a pilot. The Icon has been facing similar hurdles but no one wants to talk about it.

[@MrBurakOzel]

anytime now son

[@Triple_J.1]

@@Hug_life The Icon is a poorly conceived product, Philosophically. They designed a stylish flying boat to market to non-pilots. (I know, because my old roommate was raving about it, telling me all of its bullet point marking bits, and he was a non-pilot Tech Support IT, computer-gaming 20 hours a day guy, and i couldn't interest him in any other aircraft ever made except the icon). They market to Non-pilots, and specifically sell it as a personal water craft, low and slow maneuvering TOY. And they NAME the issue with it in their design, which has gone to EXTREME effort to attempt to prevent stall/spin departures and accidents related to that issue. Yet flying low is how you die to stall spin accidents. Flying high at a safe altitude and being a competent stick and rudder pilot eliminates the issue almost entirely.

[@coreydavis6427]

It looks like a small fighter jet.

[@glennquagmire3258]

I have read through all the comments. That plane is too much for "enthusiasts"; Mach 1 or not. Having flown military jets for 12 years, testing and consulting for Lockheed Martin for the past 9 years, I want one of these. I'll take it to the shop and overhaul it. A lighter, stronger fuselage, lighter, stronger wings, change the look some (rip-off the F22's look and a few technologies, an engine with a greater thrust... There's a smaller cousin to the FW-119. Make a run through the Skunkworks buildings... Some AR Paint to get rid of my signature, A nice set of electronics, a hidden bay munitions package; It won't take much to do some damage to the Cartel. Oh, wait... That's part of the new A-team. What am I saying? I'm an airline pilot. I live in Quahog. Ding, Dang, ting tong tang, walla walla bing bang, Ting tang! Giggity, Giggity. Nice plane, though. If we want to kill ourselves in planes, we should be allowed. We can have self-driving Tesla's in God mode doing twice the speed limit for Pete's sake! Poor Pete. He is always getting it torn up.

[@flavortown3781]

If only I had an autoclave, I found some surplus cruise missle engines, if you had a cf fuselage half as easy to work on as an f5, modern steppers and encoders and things like the Intel compute stick you could have a relatively advance avionics suite, with a half decent helio radar set and you'd basically have Boeing quiet bird

[@jselectronics8215]

@@helicopter2992 WTF? My Dad was like that. It rubbed off on me but I'm over it.

[@jselectronics8215]

@@helicopter2992 Remember this skit from Saturday Night Live? vimeo.com/312218800

[@jazzman5598]

Lol, Thanks for your Service btw.

[@sonnyburnett8725]

You have to admire Jim Bede’s design. However, going supersonic in a composite airplane with high speed heating weaking the composite wings and pulling 9G’s and thinking it’s going to remain in one piece is a bit much. Not to mention supersonic airflow and lack of that into the design and the craft sadly makes it certain what the outcome will be. He was a great designer and engineer but a little out there when it came to safety.

[@ArneChristianRosenfeldt]

do it in winter like the Wright Brothers. Pull no G while hot. Okay, pull out of the dive. How does transonic even work. On the shock the flow separates. When you accelerate, all kinds of flow separation happen on the wing. A plane needs a lot of directional stability to begin with because it will lose a lot of it. I sure would want the heavy engine more in front and the tail more in the back like on a deHallivand Vampire. Also I think a second fuel tank in front of the pilot will be mandatory

[@AKAtheA]

the plane was just barely supersonic, heating is not an issue at this speed, even for composites...somewhere up to Mach 1.5, the temps should not exceed what sitting on the runway on a sunny day would do, and that's only on the leading edges.

[@ArneChristianRosenfeldt]

F-22 is composite. All the new Mach 1.4 planes are composite. Concorde radome is composite. F16 canopy is made of plastics. You can either do 9 g subsonic, or max 1.5 g supersonic ( let the air frame cool down while gliding to the landing strip, so it survives even a hard landing ). Adiabatic compression emphasizes temperature difference. So you really have to check the weather. This plane looks a lot like the sonic cruiser. The central part is basically a delta wing. Others have commented that they don't understand why this plane has to flying tail plane. I sailed for some years and had a flying rudder. I think planes try very hard to save weight and avoid a metal bearing in the tail. Just sum flexing material on the trailing edge. It is a kit plane. As a builder you would be free to change the tailplane, wouldn't you? Maybe cg was already too far aft because BD wanted the turbine to be there. Maybe if you are a small pilot you can push your seat and engine to the front and let the tailplane fly.

[@jimrennison1]

The BD-10 in an all metal design. The wing and other flight load bearing members are all 2024-T3 aluminum alloy. Bonded aluminum honeycomb cored structure is used throughout but there is absolutely nothing new or innovative about this in this context. Only the cockpit 'tub' and radome are composite load bearing structures. Aerodynamic flutter of the elevator(s) is suspected as the cause in the crashes mentioned. The elevators also are metal structures.

[@puppiesarepower3682]

My childhood fantasy was to fly THIS PLANE.

[@mattiskardell]

i would like a safer version. the way i would fix it is making the wings larger and add a fly by wire system

[@toddprifogle7381]

The way he sat the ladder in back did not appear to be stowed away and secured properly or at least for my comfort.

[@AirstripBum]

Same here. I thought it should be locked down. Maybe that's what happened to the other three planes. The ladder got loose.

[@Heyemeyohsts]

@AirstripBum haha

[@clarencehopkins7832]

Excellent stuff bro

[@kize32]

Was this 70s or 80s? The world was different back then

[@johnholemanjr3738]

Paint it Blue and Gold and call it the Tommy Kitten, a "Little Monster, my Tommykin.""

[@douglassteiskal9097]

Get rid of the dam music

[@babyboomer9560]

Listen to what Burt Rutan had to say about Bede. He was the director for a short period.

[@Bigsky1991]

How cool would it to have one done up in Navy Jolly Roger's Squadron colors?

[@joao-barata]

Years later... Textron Scorpion is very similar.

[@jimdeese]

If I had the money I pursue this aircraft with all the vigor that I could muster. James Deese

[@ConcreteBombDeep]

Can you go up to a military jet and move the flaps with your hands when walking around the plane?

[@fhuber7507]

Should have just set VNE at .8 Mach....

[@DeanF]

OMG I NEED ONE!

[@garymyers6638]

You could build one now using modern carbon fiber and that would overcome the fatal flaw (weakness in the spar). Also, somebody suggested that five were built and three killed the pilot. Actual, three were built, one had a wind separation and that test pilot died. That killed the program. Both of the remaining aircraft were maintained as flyers for a while but were eventually retired to air museums

[@bf945]

N2BD: original prototype, owned by Fuel Fresh in Nevada, unflyable. N9WZ: Peregrine's kit, crashed N62PJ: Peregrine's kit, crashed N700JP: Jim Priebe's kit, sold to Monitor Jet, now privately owned in Canada, unflyable N7FF: Frank Everett's kit, crashed

[@deepspaceexplorer4265]

Keep as is but STAY SUBSONIC and all will be good. I wouldnt mind flying this bird at 600 mph. That's faster than most comercial jets. I would increase wing surface area and redesign the twin rudders; make them angled outward and add more surface area as well. Make it more agile for stunts as opposed to all out speed. You don't need it in this type of aircraft. Bede Corp, lose the supersonic and your bird will come to fruition...

[@stephenhudson6543]

How many days can it pull and what for G Force mitigation is installed

[@ivanivonovich9863]

They are saying that this is a "Home Built" Aircraft... 'Don't look this way to me.

[@rightyrightright1454]

Bet it would be difficult to see this bird on RADAR.........

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

No, not really.

[@shreddder999]

No videos of the ones breaking up?

[@joelrosenau4505]

Why 'oh why do people think I want to listen to any music when watching flying videos. Jesus h...

[@RevGary]

You think you could refrain from taking the Lord Jesus' name in vain per chance? #Commandment

[@funkster007]

Blame Top Gun for that

[@ObathSoar-gx5gs]

Range speed ?

[@ashsmitty2244]

How does a supersonic aircraft get away without using stabilators?

[@IanBond07]

They can't. The fatal crash of Jim Bede's test pilot was due to a faulty stabilizer when passing Mach 1. Bede cancelled the program after that.

[@fhuber7507]

X1 First supersonic flight had no stabilators. We are used to seeing the stabilators because it has proven to be better for fighters.

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

Say hello to the new USAF trainer to replace the T-38. The BD-10.X as redesigned by SAAB and built by Boeing!

[@135iN55]

And they charged a mere $10 billion for 300 entirely unproven copies in a strictly "off the shelf" competition. While a former Boeing exec made the final call. What a crime spree. How many young pilots have to be killed just to stuff money into bursting corporate crony connected pockets? The USA is wickedly abusive to the military men doing the fighting. We are now pure evil as a nation.

[@jazzman5598]

@@135iN55 Man…..I hate to……agree……smh…….look at us now in 2022. We have done this to ourselves. Glad I am old. Be with the Lord Jesus soon and ain’t wanting to come back anytime soon. GBU Sandy

[@AlbertDongler]

Fascinating! Does anyone know the base price when it was released?

[@dr_jaymz]

I know it was less than it cost to make it. Burt said 'Jim would take their money and have no idea how much it cost to build' he said 'the others make their money from avionics'. I found myself listening to the claims in the video and I don't think a single one was true. This rivalled silicon valley bull shit. I think that Jim obviously believed in his vision and his team, he was however misguided. Still Burt Rutan learned what not to do and was subsequently very successful.

[@pauldaignault7407]

Do they make an ultralight version?

[@aflyertwo]

Thank God NO!

[@jimmywrangles]

5 built and 3 of them crashed killing all 3 pilots all due to structural failure of one kind or another.

[@KAMIKAZE-dk8xd]

Fuck me i was about to go look for some used ones for sale even though i cant afford the next 3 days of water bill.

[@davem5333]

Jim Bede's other design the BD-5 also had a hard safety record.

[@marshallamp682]

Pretty cool looking. No ejection seat?

[@soliv27]

What's the weight of an ejection seat ? Plus the price ? Plus the complexity, glass ejection or exploded, special boots and your knee must not touch the panel (size pilot and design problems). And maybe a n oxygen mask for high altitude ejection ? Also it can be very tricky with unwill start, etc.. Why not a G suit ? «It's up to you» (your bank account)

[@cup_and_cone]

At the time, a zero-zero ejection seat costed more than the entire BD-10 airframe (sans the turbine)... It was designed with the intention of being a budget kit plane to let doctors and lawyers live their dreams of becoming a Top Gun before killing themselves. Also considering the BD-10 prototypes could never match the performance Bede wanted, he was never going to add a whole bunch of weight into it.

[@roryderbyshire4630]

Please give me one.Thats awesome.

[@Tinman97301]

I'm just positive the military told them there's no way that some asshat like me will be allowed to keep up with and in some cases go faster then them. What a ride that would be.

[@Jolly-Green-Steve]

You had to know this thing was a death trap by the way they land it at 11:50.... you know that was probably the best take they could get just imagine what a regular person would look like trying to land that thing if they didn't end up crashing it into the runway. If it wobbles on touch down me no buy.

[@russellsalinas295]

How can I buy one?

[@davidmccann2633]

Watched a show erler saying ther were only a small nomber produced and the one on show had suffered from a little hanger rash but with some work can be made airworthy agen ,, I'm surprised a little cool as he'll savilionised jet wouldn't git snapped right up by aviation inthusiasts , I for shore would if I could afford one lol🤣🤣❤❤

[@MrRaulstrnad]

saddly the bd 10 was largely vaporware, promising more than it could deliver-the unfortunate thing is that this fact must have been obvious to the designers yet they chose to publicize obviously wrong performance specifications, the design also was extremely dangerous-another fact that should have been obvious to the designers

[@monkeybubblessupperdude1016]

Mini F-15 eagle

[@MrX-lg8vi]

My aunt has one.

[@pashakdescilly7517]

No mention of an ejector seat

[@stuartdurbin4441]

This seems not to be about the plane, but about your film editing abilities.

[@bf945]

It's a beauty. Too bad it is a death trap.

[@aflyertwo]

The facility in Nevada, Douglas County Airport where the Peregrine Falcon (BD10) was going into production circa 1990's managed to kill (2) two CEO Test pilots. All mechanical problems, out of symmetry flaps, collapsed wing in flight.

[@MrBorceivanovski]

Very good !

[@alexthai4957]

Looks like they used every transition available on Windows Movie Maker running XP.

[@borden2417]

So what became of the Bede 10?

[@dieselscience]

Some knuckle heads crashed three of them early on - that killed the marketing.

[@bruticusmagnus]

One fell apart in flight. G force is a beach.

[@v1_rotate638]

dieselscience knuckle heads? You mean professionally trained test pilots?

[@michaelkelly9106]

Can you even still buy theses in kit form

[@connorluckett6417]

It became the Viper Jet, which is currently available... if you're a company CEO.

[@gaflyer6895]

The BD-10 was Bede's attempt at creating a kit built supersonic jet. As far as I know, the BD-10 and the "subsonic" Viper Jet share absolutely nothing in common.

[@jamato2004]

Michael Kelly now you can buy as a kitplane the Viper.

[@theodorefreeman3173]

What is the cost i am guessing between 1.5 to 2 million. The engine along i guess is a little over 500k. I do know about the only thing that will go wrong is a igniter or a crack in the igniter can. Witch is a easy fix. Sure would like to try it and take it to the limits.

[@flavortown3781]

You could do this far cheaper with surplus cruisemissle low bypass units but you'd either need to go single engine or get some a2a pure thrust engines some of those are getting quite large as planes have gotten bigger

[@davem5333]

This is the engine out the first couple of LearJet models and other early bizjets. These planes are either at the end of their economic life or have had upgraded engines installed. So an engine with considerable life left is pretty reasonable price. Probably under $100K

[@edstewart7688]

I guess I should have checked my spell check before I sent that last message or possibly stayed in school longer was supposed to say we owned two of the aircraft one was about 75% complete when we sold them to add to that always enjoyed watching the Coors light silver bullet that mr. Bishop flew at air shows.

[@edstewart7688]

when I was young many years ago work for art Scholl we owned Tubidy fives they work it's one was probably about 75% but we ended up stealing off to Gene Hackman the movie star but I remember always a really cool plane now I have a chance for a friend of mine to possibly get one that we have recently located good luck with the sale mike and Sean,

[@barryervin8536]

This propaganda reminds me of the sales hype films I saw when I was a technician at a DeLorean dealership back in the 80s. It must be great because we say so.

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

"propaganda"

[@funkster007]

Except this is jetaganda

[@bettecoughran1128]

I built my own expermental aircraft i call it an P30 stinger everything even the jet engine was desinged by me and my freind its a twin engine sinle seat 950mph high performance jet very manuvarble its like an FA18 from topgun maverick 2

[@pjwarez]

Strange they never mentioned range. Am I landing for refuel every 2 hours???

[@sammytheface8821]

Originally they were hoping for 2,000 mile range..but after they built one, reduced the range to 1,000 miles....it was heavier than they thought.

[@ScubaSteveinAustralia]

This video is a bit disappointing as this is a re-hash of 9 year old videos that are already on KZbin. Really? Nothing new to add in the last 9 years?

[@hc8714]

what do you want? The original designer passed away, all flying example killed each of their pilot and two non flyable ones are in museum.

[@elcaballoblanco9627]

Only one Powerball win away!

[@emadjoseph2803]

Awesomeness

[@MisterJayEm]

"Very, very solid. Very, very stable." Uh huh.

[@emadjoseph2803]

It’s a jet fuel tank can fly

[@Ravenscaller]

It's a miniature F-5

[@stephenhudson6543]

I meant how many g's

[@yuehhtewbb427]

Problem is most people don't have the discipline or knowledge to build a jet airplane, so sending this thing as a kit build was a disaster and people died.

[@danielmaloney128]

hey can you just build them

[@fhuber7507]

Nothing stops you from trying... except the plans are not available. Not recommended to even try for supersonic capability since the engineering and wind tunnel testing gets extreme. Stay below .8 mach and below 6G rating and its far safer when you don't have the facilities and staff to d the proper test program. Go ahead and build the structure with calculations for 9G... but just don't try to actually do it in flight. g "old school" and build progressively more complex models. First a small free flight "chuck glider" then a low performance 4 channel RC model to start dialing in CG range. Then an Electric Ducted Fan, finally a true miniature turbine powered model appx 1/4 to 1/6 scale of what you hope is your final design. Current record speed for an amateur build turbine power RC model exceeds 400 mph. Take it someplace with nothing to hit within 5 miles to test it...

[@bf945]

Nice propaganda. Only 5 were built, three crashed & killed the pilots, and the remaining 2 are non-flyable static displays.

[@brucesimpson7169]

I flew out of the Newton airport. Jim Bede was a crook

[@marcusrussell8660]

I wish they had shown the range of this little plane. You probably had to stay within dead stick of this tiny aircraft. Knowing it’s propensity to kill pilots. This concept should have been burned.

[@mqbitsko25]

Death trap. And what would be the point of building a kit plane that you can't legally fly at its design speed? (Ignoring for the moment that doing so would also kill you.)

[@jimdavenport8020]

Fool us once....

[@1crzflyer]

LOL.. you sure can tell its a promotional video.. " high tech push pull tube" control surfaces...LOL why dual tails? its not a fighter jet.. it doesn't need two... one will do and provide less parasitic drag..

[@fhuber7507]

Some things are done just to look cool.

[@andycraig7734]

Twin tail? Yes. Look at the engine location.

[@garyroy3503]

Did you watch the video and specifically the preflight check around 9:20 ??? The pilot was looking directly into the business end of the jet engine and it sits directly down the centerline for the fuselage. How the heck would you put a verticle tail section and rudder assembly in the middle of this plane ?

[@grisby6484]

Expensive pilot killing lawn dart

[@derekwalker4622]

Welcome to the first Worlds Longest Introduction video. Take what may be a great private jet, and make a 21 minute introduction video on it. This is lame. I have to thumbs down this video.