BD-10 Homebuilt Supersonic Jet Aircraft (Short Version)

Note: Longer Video can be found in my video's.

It was supposed to be a supersonic homebuilt jet aircraft that could cruise at up to M 1.14 on a single GE J85 and a range of about 1,200 miles. It also was fully capable of exceeding a climb rate of 12,000 Feet Per Minute (achieving 10,000 feet from take off in under 40 seconds)

Unfortunately, due to the design of the aircraft structurally, there was an accident and Jim Bede canceled the program.

The accident related to vertical tail stabilizer failure when the test pilot was testing Mach 1.0+ capabilities. This resulted in structural failure and a fatal crash.

The total price of this aircraft was to be well under $1 million

(Give me 2 days locked in a room and I could have solved those issues completely).

Anyways, if this aircraft was fixed and made sound structurally, it would be dominating the the market today.

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[dopafeind1]

Whats up with the music? I feel like I'm at the spa getting a message.

[3DFLYLOW]

@pliedas the music was gay.

[rcplanefunguy1212]

master chief of halo made it

[b101aa2]

@pliedas took you 4 months to respond eh? sr20, not a bad plane really. good starter plane for newbies. flew one for a few hundred hours back around 2002 giving some people that work for me ifr training.

[pliedas]

@b101aa2 should have expected that, I'll bet you snapped your fingers and squinted your eyes when you thought of that...BTW I have a Cirrus SR20.

[b101aa2]

@r4b33Z no, but when this video was made, we sure were. now weren't we....

[r4b33Z]

@b101aa2 we're not in the mid 90's now are we?

[pureawesomeness2012]

i would never trust me flying a jet I built myself...BALLS OF STEEL!!!!!!!!

[stinkychemist]

It would have been easy to make a succesful aircraft that got near the speed of sound, rather than going past it. Why go supersonic? You don't save much time unles you're doing a thousand mile trip, most of the time lost in flight is lost on the ground.

So the test pilot died because somebody got too ambitious and the unsuccessful plane fell apart.

[reddeerguy70]

Why would you want to see the longer version?......this one draaaaaaaags on

[b101aa2]

@3DFLYLOW mid 90's...