On Mar 19, 3:56 pm, (Drew Dalgleish)
wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:42:57 -0700 (PDT), Fred the Red Shirt



wrote:
On Mar 19, 7:21 am, wrote:
BD-5 - the smallest jet aircraft in the world created in the 1960s by
Jim Bede - US aircraft designer.
read more ...http://onlythemost.blogspot.com/2008...rcraft-in-worl...

It is not the smallest jet aircraft.

It is the Guiness Book record holder for smallest human
piloted jet aircraft.

However, the smallest human piloted jet aircraft ever flown
is a jet powered version of the Cri cri, described near the
bottom he

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CriCri

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FF

That's not small check out the jet-man. He just needs to work on his
landings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-66AcTo9TU

I think you are right.

Oh, and the Cri cri is the lightest human piloted jet to have flown,
the BD-5 is shorter and thus smaller by that measure. IIRC
the Juan Dart holds the record because it is a small as any
other BD-5 and lighter than the others by virtue of omitting
components needed for self-starting. The Guiness Book
people evidently do not require that it be flown in that
configuration to hold the record, which strikes me as peculiar.

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FF