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I assembled BD-5 kit planes for Keith Hinshaw at his BD Micro Aviation shop in San Jose from 1978-79 and 1983-84. I agree with everything you said in your video.

Not even Soviet pilots liked the mig-23 according to the mig-29 who deserted in 1989

I found out about Walter Soplata's aircraft junkyard from Jim Bede's son at The Akron/Fulton airport in '76 or '77. He was sitting in the cockpit of the prop-driven version of this, and we were both probably about 20.

‘Sounds too good to be true…’ No, it sounds like a nightmare

Definitely under funded project and road blocked at every turn. The science and technology was available even then for this to have been a ground breaking market changing aircraft. Unfortunately he had some major contenders in the industry. If not for the opposition I believe it would have been a far more refined aircraft. Jim was desperate to get his foot in the door but could not find investors who didn't know the game was over before he had even stepped into the field.

Excellent video. I'm a seasonal employee in Kings Canyon and this is definitely going to be a talking point this summer on my cave tours!

I graduated from Aviation High School located In Queens New York in 1981. There was a kit of a BD-5 (probably the prop version) that was partially assembled by the teachers/students. Always wondered if it was ever completed, at least as a static display.

Excellent work!

Unfortunately, I watched my friend crash and die in his BD5.

wow, I cannot imagine putting an aircraft down in 20 foot seas at night in a storm, hats off to the crew for their skills and courage under duress, it could have been a totally different outcome................I flew either Flying Tiger Lines or Seaboard World to Nam in 1970, the plane was a pile, the auto-pilot did not work, we could not dump fuel so we had to circle and burn all that fuel off. Plus I am sure we were overloaded as when we left March AFB it took forever to get off the ground, I swear my butt scraped on the barb-wire fence at the end of the runway when we finally got airborne.

The plane looks unstable, a big scam?

I only saw one problem in your speculation You stated his reasoning for not cutting fuel to slow the aircraft was because "it's something any pilot would be loathe to do for risk of damaging the valuable asset"... However, that holds no water once factoring that a jettison would be the *far more likely* option to damage the frame! Which makes it more likely that his lack in knowledge/familiarity with the aircraft led to poor decisions 💯

I suspect it was mechanical failure or something of that sort. But if a bomb was planted on board, could it have been fused to go off when it receives a radio signal? The range of the radio signal is known. Plane flies over boat, plane blows up. I’m not saying I think that is what happened, just interesting to think about

At 5:49... Thats clearly not a crashed BD-5. Ha! QUICK... JUST GRAB A CRASH STOCK PHOTO. STAT!

Just finished cleaning one up to be used as a prop. After looking thru it, seeing how the pulleys and cables work.... Seeing as your feet are 12 inches from the nose cone.... Ya, it's a coffin. even if this had a PERFECT engine..... I'd rather eat a booger than fly it. Looks great as a prop tho.

Barksdale AFB, LOUISIANA.

Something not mentioned, but which I think is very important, is the maintenance history of this aircraft, with particular attention given to the radial engines. Had they been properly examined and serviced, and how many hours were on each engine?

This is the most footage of anyone running MSFS with Bing data turned off I've ever seen.

And if anyone is so NAIVE as to think for even a second that the US Government or even the British Government for that matter would be open, honest and truthful about what REALLY happened to that plane is better off going to a Gypsy Taro card reader! They'd get about the same results although I'd trust the Gypsy more.

Wrong engine. Bede should have gone for the Fiat-Abarth inline 2 cyl.engine.

they found bielefeld at the crash site.

1:30 His angles are badly injured? What happened, were his angles straightened out? I don't see what not having an angle has to do with anything in this video.

I feel so bad for David. He survived a horrible ordeal. He is also very handsome.

I wish this channel would update more, I love these videos.

I was told by somebody that he was flying a UFO. And he got killed that same. Somebody changed the store when I called him back. A few months ano he was a spokesperson. Regarding that crash

Intrigued by the place of origjn of this flight, I can't help but think about the Roswell "Incident" in 1947. Has anyone explored this as a possible link to the C-124 disappearance? Could some object from the 1947 incident been aboard the C-124 ? What is thd depth of the ocean in and around the proportion crash site ? Has anyone done Magnetometer and Side-Scan SONAR sweeps of the area to search for crash derbis? Did RF spectrum analysis data from this event record any anomolies? To paraphrase a pointy-eared character from Star Trek, once all logical possibilities gave been exhausted, there only remains the illogical!

I believe it was the FAA stopping them because they were in competition with Cessna.

We had one of these hanging from the ceiling of a computer lab in my high school. I always loved looking at it in class.

Extremely dangerous saw one. Crash and burn by experienced pilot

With the 14 and 17 Foot Wings: fundamentally Dangerous! Also - Miss Marketed, and others in the Kitplane business failed to learn from this experience, vicariously, so had to learn, personally! And - as much as I knew in the 1987 timeframe of the Jim Bede, BD-5 History, and tried to warn them, "They Knew Better" - So they got to experience Bankruptcy, themselves!

I saw the BD-5J Jet variant flown at the Dayton Air Show around 1998. I figured the pilot was very seasoned and skilled and had professional support in making the aircraft more reliable.

O homem que viu o firmamento, e viu pessoalmente o real formato da terra.

Awesome video of a fantastic and sad feat. Congratulations!.

Stupidity ruled !

More like a “Buffoon Ride”

An idiot that was not qualified to be in this aircraft. .It was a matter of time.

What in the world?

Not the sharpest tool in the shed. His wife sounds partly to blame however she should have known that being married to military personnel is always a not being home much job anyway. The alcohol destroyed him. RIP sergeant. It's incredible he got as far as he did with the little experience he had. Besides doesn't it take more than one person to fly that type of aircraft?

half a century later these are still being built and flown. They have inspired a very similar jet that is also quite popular.

R I P Malcolm ❤ 🎉

What a hellish experience!Poor souls!Very bad luck.

5000 hours but not one in a MiG-23. There.

Great video. If i can make a request, Can you do a video on the mystery of the Flying tiger line flight 739? Its a very head scratching story

Drunks do the darnedest things.

Looks to me like it should have had a high wing or at least a shoulder wing.

Bigfoot found it and is satisfying female Bigfoot’s as a YUGE “marital aid”....kinky lil minxes...

One would think a colonel would have taken better care in preparing and a test drive.

ARE U GUYS SURE THE GOVEERNMENT WAS NOT INVOLVED INTHIS??

I eagerly await the advent of the flyin car; that'll be great.