Yo Bob,

There was a BD-5J that was used as the "Coors Silver Bullet" and then was used
for shows at Oshkosh, etc. I could see that particular BD-5 as having more than
350 hours on it. I don't know if this particular bird is still flying.

After each airshow, the wings were pulled off and it was put in a trailer. Makes
sense as far as having a car and tools at the airshow as well as your plane.

I think a BIG indication of how difficult it is to fly is that a Ex- Blue Angel
was flying it for the demos! There is a gentleman in my EAA chapter that has one
and is rebuilding it after bleeding too much speed and ending up a bit high on
landing. He did mention that he really couldn't see the ground from the almost
fully reclined position that is the pilot seat. His BD-5 uses a Turbomecha
turbine with a PSRU prop reduction for power.

As with all things if it goes hellishly fast it probably doesn't do slow very well.

--
Bart D. Hull

Tempe, Arizona

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- Barnyard BOb - wrote:

"Gig Giacona" wrote:


I haven't spent that much time looking at the accident reports but it seems
that TTAF and TTE might be listed somewhere on, if not all, a good number of
accident reports. While you wouldn't get a total time for the fleet you
could get a total time for the accident involved fleet. Might be telling.

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Any body ever see a BD5 flying cross country?
Anybody ever see a BD5 fly?

I'd ask jaun for some figures, but I doubt he
would ever confirm that most flying BD5's have
far less than 50 hours TT on 'em.....
and this would be a lot of taxi time. g

At one time jaun did claimed there was one
with over 350 hours. However, if credibility is
an issue, the figure should be considered bogus.


Barnyard BOb -- over 713 hours TT on my RV3