BEDE BD-5 MICRO AIRCRAFT PROMO FILM "PIECES OF A DREAM" 25014

[@justme8340]

Burt Rutan video about Bede brought me here. Scary stuff. Bede’s philosophy reminds me of George Costanza’s motto…”It’s not a lie if YOU believe it!”

[@shadowban481]

Same, reading some comments I see people ignore Bede dishonest practices that cost people's lives.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

I knew Jim Bede. And Corky Fornhoff, he flew the first trs-18 jet BD5. Richard Bach flew his BD5-J out of his runway in ocala. This video is priceless. If people only knew.

[@TylerKirkFilms]

I am the proud owner of a kit, the more I learn about it the more I love it

[@alexwigley6574]

The BD-5 was WAY ahead of it's time! It was a sensation! Thousands of kits were ordered in the first year, when most airplane manufacturers would be ecstatic with 50 orders a year... Sadly, it was a bankrupt engine manufacturer/supplier and the long process of solving torsional resonance in the drive system that eventually lead to bankruptcy. Modern lightweight engines have finally caught up with the BD-5 in both the prop version and the jet version! Now it's better than ever!!! Five BD-5s were at Oshkosh 2018! FIVE FIVES!!!!!

[@Cokie907]

Of course, an airplane is absolutely no good without a reliable engine. Unless it's a glider... 😂 I'm assuming all those BD-5's were jet powered? Btw, The SONEX jet Jsx-2T is almost the spitting image of the BD-5, except it sports a V-tail.

[@widescreennavel]

Great music...the 70's ruled.

[@DrogoBaggins987]

The jet version of this plane was very impressive to me at the age of ten when I first saw one at an air show.

[@BobbyGeneric145]

Does anyone know what this style of background music would be called?

[@richardhead8264]

@thefactorypilot145 _Every high-energy documentary and action drama in the 1970's had this sort of orchestral music._ _You hear it in 1973, during weekly episodes of "The Six Million Dollar Man."_ _And later in 1978, the Friday evening soap opera "Dallas" opened with a similar and indelible tune._

[@Heyemeyohsts]

Jazz

[@lynnkramer1211]

Otis elevator "Tunes to Lift By".

[@K-Effect]

I saw the jet version fatally crash at the 1992 Chico airshow. That became a sad day.

[@jamesholt7340]

Probably a dumb ass pilot lol

[@PRMarshall]

@@jamesholt7340 A lot of pilots died using the kit

[@Heyemeyohsts]

Shit really?

[@daleyoung87]

People don't understand. It requires precise building, understanding of this aircraft to work correctly. It takes a very specific powerplant to make it whole. Every one of these pilots were good pilots. Just unfortunate circumstances , usually powerplant related. If done correctly, is an amazing design. The turbine, even though impressive, was more of a gimmick. Cool,...but a gimmick.

[@daleyoung87]

@@jamesholt7340 no.

[@jamesholt7340]

So the whole kit only costs $2,000?Does that include the engine with it as well?im sure the jet engine the kit will cost about $7,500 total cost?

[@kurtfrancis4621]

The costs in the early 70s were more like double. Bede sold the kits for less than what they cost in hopes of selling other items (avionics, etc) on the back end. There are other videos describing the problems with the BD-5. I would compare it to the DeLorean in the early 80s. Great concept vehicle, but lacking a powerful & durable engine at a low cost.

[@Cokie907]

Yeah, $2,000 in 1970 dollars. Now, factor in the loss in purchasing power of the US DOLLAR since 1971 when Nixon ended linkage to gold and the costs of the FDR-LBJ welfare-entitlement state required massive printing of currency. The dollar today buys about 1/15th of what it did in 1970 so the kit would start out at least around $30,000.

[@EllipsisAircraft]

The price was with a snowmobile engine and propeller. The jet came later, and it was expensive. Probably over $200,000 in today's dollars. Just look who operated them.

[@montysmith6355]

does it come with a sticker that says WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A B-52?.

[@JeepBoiFL]

1:02 You could say anything back then, anything. "Construct it in your basement with simple tools" Then what?

[@K-Effect]

Why are you spending so many late nights in the basement? Oh nothing dear just building my flying death chariot.

[@montysmith6355]

the question is if you build it in your basement how are you going to get it out of there when you got it put together .

[@JeepBoiFL]

@@montysmith6355 The point I was eluding to lol

[@montysmith6355]

@@JeepBoiFL i kind of figured that

[@daleyoung87]

I'm building one in my basement right now.. Fuse and wings, then moving it up and to an outside shed to finish. (Main spar won't clear doorway).

[@swainlach4587]

I don't get it, this was supposed to be a kit and yet you have to use tin snips and welding? WTF?

[@EllipsisAircraft]

"Kit" in the 1970s was the same as "Kit" model airplane. An assembly of materials smashed into approximate shapes that had to be trimmed and formed, fastened together. Then the real work came, finishing times of 1,000 hours were not out of the ordinary. Vans, Rans, and Sonex changed the meaning of "kit" airplane.

[@seoceancrosser]

I wonder what the performance would be like if they replaced the metal wing and fuselage with composite parts.

[@topsecret1837]

seoceancrosser They had always used composites ever since Bede brought Burt Rutan onto the design. That’s why you see the vertical tail and the use of composites.

[@TylerKirkFilms]

According to a generalized presumption in my aeronautical engineering books you can count on greater that 5% increase in performance by using composite parts instead of aluminum. I think it would be awesome to see a carbon fiber bd5

[@EllipsisAircraft]

@@TylerKirkFilms composites are not always better. Burt Rutan has stated publicly that the VariEZ would have been 10% lighter if made of aluminum. But composites resist fatigue, and corrosion better. They also support laminar flow, but only with proper a design and precise construction. A commercial manufacturer with lots of resource might see a 5% improvement.

[@antibulletdodger101]

Looks like it would stall if nose points up 1 cm..

[@theogdirkdiggler]

That is the worst score I've ever heard. Fascinating story!