12 Jan
2007
12 Jan
'07
8:10 p.m.
The Bede5 was/is the little single seat jet, James bond made famous and the Beer companies
flew at
airshows and such. He introduced a little highwing at Oskosh the same year as he flew the
Bede5j jet for
the public for the first time. I think, it was the Bede 15 but I may be wrong .... The
70's were hard on me :)
Anyone who has walked down the flightline at an EAA convention has witnessed a wide range
of use and
abuse of rivets mixed in with the current generation of plastic fantastics :)
later
Bob
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:54:16 -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 12 Jan 2007 at 0:00, Robert wrote:
> Speaking of pop rivets: There is a kitplane (an excellent work horse of a plane) that
makes use of
thousands of
> closely spaced pop rivets. I used to be able to
recall its name off the top of my head, but this library
computer
> will not allow me to open another instance of my
browser (to search google and figure it out). It was a
sort of ugly, boxy,
utilatarian looking plane. It was so "ugly" that it was actually very cool!!
It's supposedly
nearly
> "indestructable."
Are you perhaps thinking of the Bede 5? A friend
decided to assemble
one in the living room of his second-story apartment. I think he
ruined the place utterly, what with the swarf from the thousands of
holes drilled or the broken-off stubs of pop rivets that were left in
the green shag carpeting, not to mention the oil from the snowmobile
engine, etc. I seem to recall that there some problem getting the
completed craft out of the building...
At the same time, I was building a harpsichord in my
third-story
apartment and while the carpet was pretty dirty from all of the
sawdust, I think it was salvageable.
Cheers,
Chuck