Earlier, RapidRonnie wrote:

Jim Bede openly felt that was unnecessary because most
BD-5s would never fly or if they did would either only fly a few
hours and be junked when the owner died or would crash so
badly it would make little difference how he built it.

If Bede was "Open" about that, you should have no trouble providing a
cite for that assertion. Please do so.

Thanks, Bob K.