Bede Aircraft Crash

NTSB investigators either traveled in support of this investigation or conducted a significant amount of investigative work without any travel and used data obtained from various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.

Bede aircraft crash. A Red Bull Bede BD-5J single-seater microjet crashed during an attempted forced landing near Innsbruck Austria on May 1 killing Flying Bulls pilot Guido Gehrmann. The Bede BD-5 Micro is a series of small single-seat homebuilt aircraft created in the late 1960s by US aircraft designer Jim Bede and introduced to the market primarily in kit form by the now-defunct Bede Aircraft Corporation in the early 1970s. Went bankrupt in the mid-1970s according to online reports.

The purpose of this web site is to provide information about the Bede Aircraft BD-5 an experimental homebuilt single-seat high performance aircraft that first flew more than 30 years ago and which to this day continues to draw crowds wherever one lands. An amateur-built Wheeler Express 2000 stalled and crashed short of the Camarillo Airport runway on August 7th killing a Salt Lake City couple pilot John Wells 60 and his wife Tara Wells 56. Some BEDE Aircraft Flight Manuals PDF above the page.

The design was based on a high-wing cantilever monoplane of conventional design able to be fitted either with tail wheel or tricycle undercarriage as the builder chooses. The crash came several weeks after another crash at the airport killed two people. The Bede BD-5 Micro is a series of small single-seat homebuilt aircraft created in the late 1960s by US aircraft designer Jim Bede and introduced to the market primarily in kit form by the now-defunct Bede Aircraft Corporation in the early 1970s.

The aircraft then proceeded to disintegrate killing the test pilot. Here youll find pictures information and web links related to the BD-5 as well as to other Bede aircraft and experimental aviation in. Howard Cox 67 from Devon was.

Shortly after the FTC Consent Decree expired in 1989 Bede revealed plans for a homebuilt tandem-seat supersonic jet the Bede BD-10. Based on previous work with innovative light aircraft the BD-1 eventually developed into the American Aviation AA-1 Yankee and the BD-2 Jim Bede designed the BD-4 the first real kitplane in the world. The crash of a BD-5 on Saturday 25 July that resulted in the death of its experienced pilot Howard Cox may have resulted from an onboard fire.

The builder was. The pilot Howard Cox 67 was the only person on board. Lucie County Florida.