Looking for info on world record jet aircraft

On 5/30/2012 9:38 PM, Ted Parvo wrote:
In ,
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

In a previous article, Bob said:
However....just Google BD-5J and you will find that there have been
several built and I have personally seen one of fly an aerobatic routine
at an airshow.

However the one Jimenez bought, which he claims on Wikipedia "held the
Guiness record for World's Smallest Jet for more than 25 years" has never
been seen to fly. When I pointed that out on the Talk page for the BD5
entry, he got very angry and claimed that he was going to fly it any day
now, while not denying that it has never flown. He hasn't updated that
assertion since 2006.

Jimenez himself, posting as "Flybd5", is the main source for all the
information about it on Wikipedia, you can take anything it says there
with a massive grain of salt. It is currently listed on his web site as
"for sale", again with no indication that it has ever flown, but that page
hasn't been updated in a very long time. http://bd5.com/my5j.htm

His posting name is why I looked into the BD5, and I stumbled on
something that's not adding up.

If it's never flown, how can it get an aircraft record? Was this claim
used to market the aircraft or designers, based on this specific kit
that never flew?


No-one involved seems eager to answer these questions, and they
shouldn't be. It is a curiosity that the record holder of 25 years
angrily won't, and the issuer of the record claims complete ignorance
of this aircraft, or the BD5. No hits on a search of their site.

If there were a simple answer, I'd have it by now, but there seems to
be no answer at all, and that's just a bit damn weird, as is the
holder of this "record".


Long long ago, far far away,

It WAS true - at one time.
The BD5 was the smallest jet by quite bit.

Before the CriCri showed up...

"Richard" wrote in message
m...

Long long ago, far far away,

It WAS true - at one time.
The BD5 was the smallest jet by quite bit.

Before the CriCri showed up...


Richard,

The claim was never that the BD-5J was the smallest Jet. It was that one
particular BD-5J was smaller than all the rest of the BD-5Js. He also
claimed it was smaller than the CriCri jet. Nonsense, of course, but that
was the claim. I don't suppose even Juan would claim that it's smaller than
the nutcase that strapped a couple of jets to his ankles and jumped out of a
perfectly good airplane.

Rich

On 05/31/2012 06:56 PM, Richard Isakson wrote:
"Richard" wrote in message
m...

Long long ago, far far away,

It WAS true - at one time.
The BD5 was the smallest jet by quite bit.

Before the CriCri showed up...


Richard,

The claim was never that the BD-5J was the smallest Jet. It was that one
particular BD-5J was smaller than all the rest of the BD-5Js. He also
claimed it was smaller than the CriCri jet. Nonsense, of course, but
that was the claim.

Juan said that the BD5J is smaller than the CriCri because it has a
shorter fuselage.

..
It WAS true - at one time.
The BD5 was the smallest jet by quite bit.

Before the CriCri showed up...

Must have been about nine or ten years ago, someone's
BD-5J performed at an Armed Forces Day air show
at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.
I think the show moderator called it the World's smallest
Jet, but memory is a fragile thing.
I think I have pictures somewhere, but darned computer
won't cough 'em up.

Old Chief Lynn

Old Chief Lynn,

You name is familiar.

Old B/N Wayne
VAH-10, VAH-123, VA-196, VA-128, VA-115


"coffelt2" wrote in message
...

..
It WAS true - at one time.
The BD5 was the smallest jet by quite bit.

Before the CriCri showed up...

Must have been about nine or ten years ago, someone's
BD-5J performed at an Armed Forces Day air show
at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.
I think the show moderator called it the World's smallest
Jet, but memory is a fragile thing.
I think I have pictures somewhere, but darned computer
won't cough 'em up.

Old Chief Lynn