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His aircraft are the mite stuff - Mini-jets mimic cruise missiles in military drills
[Tucson] Arizona Daily Star ^
| 05.15.2006
| Dan Sorenson
Posted on 05/15/2006 5:18:54 PM PDT by IonImplantGuru
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Nifty little 'pocket rocket'; below is the BD5 back in the airshow days.
To: Aeronaut
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:20:04 PM PDT
by
IonImplantGuru
(Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
To: IonImplantGuru
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:22:58 PM PDT
by
patton
(Once you steal a firetruck, there's really not much else you can do except go for a joyride.)
To: IonImplantGuru
I want to know how much does one of them little boogers cost cause I want one for Christmas! :)
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:24:49 PM PDT
by
TSgt
(Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
To: IonImplantGuru
If he is doing more than 250 knots (287 mph) below 10,000 feet without ATC permission he will get his tail in a crack. Most likely this is just another uninformed newsie making up a fantasy story.
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:33:13 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: MikeWUSAF
I saw one of those in a car dealership in St Louis. It's amazing to see a jet that is smaller than a car.
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:39:21 PM PDT
by
Big Giant Head
(I should change my tagline to "Big Giant Pancake on my Head")
To: Big Giant Head
When I saw it, I thought it was a prop. Until I saw it fly! That thing really screamed! Great show.
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:43:10 PM PDT
by
realpatriot
(Some spelling errers entionally included!)
To: IonImplantGuru
I remember seeing that cute little sucker at NAS Mirimar during an airshow back in the early 80s.
Sweet!
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:43:19 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(Ut iusta esse, lex noblis severus necesse est.)
To: Don Corleone
I'm sure they are doing it over secured military terrain, not over suburbs.
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:44:59 PM PDT
by
Sender
(“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” – Old Chinese proverb)
To: IonImplantGuru
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:48:55 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: IonImplantGuru
$hit. My job just plain sucks in comparison.
Why did I have to read this?
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:50:42 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
To: patton
I said the same thing "THAT is a cool job"
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:51:08 PM PDT
by
Crim
(I may be a Mr "know it all"....but I'm also a Mr "forgot most of it"...)
To: Don Corleone
What is the average velocity of a sparrow?
IF he is carrying a coconut....
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:54:46 PM PDT
by
Crim
(I may be a Mr "know it all"....but I'm also a Mr "forgot most of it"...)
To: realpatriot
Speaking of props, I sat in the propellor version of the BD-5 back in the late 70s. Fit like a glove and the control was a side stick. I had an AA5 Traveler (4 place, fixed gear), also designed by Jim Bede.
To: IonImplantGuru
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posted on
05/15/2006 6:48:00 PM PDT
by
A. Pole
(It is better to have $5M and live in Weston, MA than to have $20M and to live in Bogota.)
To: Don Corleone
They do this over MOA's and not the nearest local town.
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posted on
05/15/2006 7:22:29 PM PDT
by
biff
To: NewHampshireDuo
I was just a college kid, passing through, back in Jan. 74 when I sat in a prop version, minus the engine, in the Bede showroom at Newton, KS airport.
A customer was there that had purchased a BD-5 kit. Jim Bede gave us both a tour of the place, and a ride in a BD-4 (high wing, four place). He put it through some nice maneuvers. Compared to the Piper Tri-pacer I was accustomed to flying, the bird's handling and simple construction impressed me, but I never followed it's history. Maybe it wasn't as great a plane as it seemed to me at the time. Or maybe flying a C-310 occasionally in the years following helped put it out of my mind. But the BD-5J must be a thrill ride like no other.
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posted on
05/15/2006 7:51:48 PM PDT
by
Zuriel
(Acts 2:38,39....nearly 2,000 years and still working today!)
To: Crim
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posted on
05/15/2006 7:53:50 PM PDT
by
Boiler Plate
(Mom always said why be difficult, when with just a little more effort you can be impossible.)
To: IonImplantGuru; KevinDavis
Thanks, for the Pic. :D
Aviation ping.
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posted on
05/15/2006 8:21:57 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you....... :^)
To: fso301
Does Tom Cruise have one?
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