2020年5月20日 · The Aviation Safety Institute database shows a total of 25 fatal BD-5 crashes—12-15 percent of all BD-5s that ever flew. Many occurred on the first flight of newly finished aircraft, with engine failures and subsequent stalls a common thread.

On October 8, 2019, about 1229 Pacific daylight time, an amateur built experimental Bede BD-5, airplane, N501BD, was substantially damaged when it impacted terrain about 3/4 mile south of the Camarillo Airport (CMA) Camarillo, California. The airline transport pilot was fatally injured.

Several crashes in the BD-5B were found to have taken place due to engine failure on takeoff, both due to the mix of "oddball" engines as well as endemic cooling problems. [25] The reason this is such an issue with the BD-5 is twofold – the high line of thrust means an engine failure immediately results in an unexpected (for most pilots) nose ...

2013年5月7日 · A Red Bull Bede BD-5J single-seater microjet crashed during an attempted forced landing near Innsbruck, Austria, on May 1, killing Flying Bulls pilot Guido Gehrmann. According to a team statement,...

2019年10月9日 · Engine disassembly revealed that the engine's oil galleys and the No. 4 connecting rod journal's oil galley were not obstructed. The section of the rod end cap with the bearing tang insert had mechanical damage consistent with bearing shift.

2020年7月18日 · Through the years, BD-5 became more recognized for its fatal crashes, not for being the aircraft star of the James Bond movie. The engine failure downed the BD-5J single-seater and killed a Flying Bulls pilot in 2013.

during a touch-and-go landing, the pilot, who had only five hours experience in this make and model aircraft, allowed the airspeed to get low. due to the low airspeed, the aircraft droppe...

2015年7月27日 · A world class precision pilot killed in an air crash was flying a homebuilt mini-jet like the one immortalised in the James Bond film Octopussy. Howard Cox, 67, was killed instantly when his...

2022年6月21日 · And the latest recorded BD-5 crash was recorded in 2019. It too, was fatal. Many of these aircraft crashed on their very first flights, with an engine failure on takeoff followed by a stall noted as the cause.

2024年12月20日 · The crash of a BD-5 on Saturday 25 July, that resulted in the death of its experienced pilot, Howard Cox, may have resulted from an onboard fire. Cox, who was planning an appearance in his BD-5 at the Foynes Air Show in Limerick on Sunday 26th, kept the aircraft, the only one that was currently flying in Europe, at Waterford Aero Club in ...