Ever Dreamed of Being Bond?

"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck) 12/09/2018 at 00:03 • Filed to: None

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Now is your chance! Yes, sir, this is the genuine article. A real live first-gen Bede 5 kit ready to be completed by your capable hands!

A little sanding and she’ll be ready for paint. Then you’ll just have to install the gear, an engine, a seat, some avionics, a propeller, the control lines....

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CB > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/09/2018 at 00:29

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This can't possibly end poorly.

TheRealBicycleBuck > CB 12/09/2018 at 00:33

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Of course not!

Grindintosecond > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/09/2018 at 00:38

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I made my choice on this exact subject. I owned a BD-5, and decided against building it. Besides, a T-tail conversion? Without any real data to support the mod? Talk about suicidal.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Grindintosecond 12/09/2018 at 01:05

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The prototype was a V-tail, so a T-tail doesn’t seem too radical.

bubblestheturtle > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/09/2018 at 13:40

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BD-10 or nothing.

TheRealBicycleBuck > bubblestheturtle 12/09/2018 at 14:49

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That one has a worse track record than  the BD5. Five built, three crashed (killing the pilots) and two of those were mid-air breakups. Looks cool, though. 

Grindintosecond > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/09/2018 at 14:53

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There’s a reason the production kit was not a V-tail.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Grindintosecond 12/09/2018 at 19:35

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Um , yeah. You missed my point. T he original was a v-tail, so it’s not a radical departure from the prototype to step to a T-tail. I can’t find any documentation of it , but I’d swear I saw another early kit that was a T-tail. I was surprised to see a fiberglass kit at all given that they went to a metal fuselage early in production.