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![]() "Morgans" wrote in message ... "BobR" wrote Probably lots of different reasons why it has not achieved the flying success it should have but you hit on the biggest and probably most important, no suitable engine. Yeah, I know that there are now many good engines that could power it well but its time was then and this is now. It was ahead of its time then and the needed engine wasn't available. I don't think that is quite true. There may be better engines now, but that is only part of the problem with the piston engine in the BD-5. The link escapes me now, but there were tremendous problems with torsional harmonics, tearing apart everything, all the way along the drive train. No BD-5 has suffered an inflight failure involving either the airframe or the drive train hardware. Beef up the driveshaft, and the clutch tore apart. Fix the clutch, and the engine mounts cracked, beef them up, and something else broke. So on, and so on. Anyone happen to have the links handy that addressed all of these issues? It was a very interesting read, although a lot of material. I think they would answer, with great detail, why the 5 never caught on. They self destructed. My web site includes a library of material that includes things like this. Help yourself, that's why I put it there, the good _and_ the bad. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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