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![]() "Whome?" wrote in message ... On 1/4/2007 11:17:13 PM, Bob Martin wrote: J.Kahn wrote: Obviously you're dead as a doornail in a stall spin accident in either airplane. You could probably say that about almost any small airplane, really... Are you saying the BD-5 will not recovery from a spin? With the original wings, the BD-5 has good spin recovery. With the GAW wings, you stand a good chance of an unrecoverable flat spin. It's been talked about on the mailing list by people who experienced this many years ago, and is the reason most people don't build the BD-5 with GAW wings. The airfoil Harry Riblett suggested for the BD-5 has given good results to those who have used them. Mine has that airfoil, but not as a reprofile -- the original build made new ribs as part of the redesign of the wing with a conventional spar. I'll let you know the results when it flies. ![]() More info on this is available here http://www.bd5.com/bulletin.htm. The last two published editions of the Bulletin (I only did a few after I took it over, and discontinued them when the site and mailing list became fully operational) have two articles reprinted from EAA's Sport Aviation magazine written by the late Seth Anderson, who owned a BD-5 which he converted to turboprop and modified in many other ways. It has a good analysis of the flight characteristics of the BD-5. There's also a flight test report from the late Les Berven, who was Bede's original test pilot on the BD-5 program, here http://www.bd5.com/testberven.htm but it does not go into spin testing. Juan -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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