BK1 Around the Pattern www.bkfliers.com

Fun Flying a homebuilt plane on a beautiful morning.

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• homebuilt
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• VW
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[sonic88xb]

Please send me the blue prints. I would love to own one of these.

[DBKTube]

Send an email to bruce@bkfliers.com for details.

[aaronsdavis]

Excuse my ignorance, but whats the glide like in these things? Are you toast if you lose the engine?

[DBKTube]

Glide is good, about typical for a light plane. If you have enough altitude you can glide for miles to find a spot to land. The engine just pulls the plane, like a car going up a long hill, once at the top you can coast back down. Large winged sailplanes can fly for hours with no engine at all.

[malanga13]

This is a really good video, I never had any opinion on this homebuilt until I saw this video and I like it now. By the way I used to have a trained pet wasp that flew with me all the time back in 1973.

[malanga13]

flying with a good wasp trained to know what she is doing is a good tactic. It is a safety backup and it keeps you on your toes, specially boring IFR conditions.

[n0t5ur3]

I would not want to find a wasp in the cockpit with me

[maxbify]

If i get a plane like this. And maby replace the engine to something whit more power can it go fast? Looks awsome btw

[SuperWilliam013]

is that zuehle field in new bruanfiels texas? benn there to buy an engine from an ole cogger named chuck beeson. he produced a sweet little plane called a chuckbird. am i right?



[furyfan2]

The BK1 is a big bang for the buck . It can carrry a 6'4'' 250 lb. pilot ,30 lbs. of luggage with full fuel ( 15 gals. ) and fly at a 130 mph cruise for 400 miles and still have a one hour fuel reserve . I can't think of another aircraft that can do all that for less than $10,000 !! It is also all metal . I would think that with the proper cockpit covers , prop covers etc. it would not absolutely have to be hangared.It is a VERY capable aircraft !!!!!!!!!!

[dhakagod]

have a simple question, are you a rich man ? lol...hehe... anyways , i like your bird, i have a funding of roughly £5000 (british pounds) , do you think i will be able to make a low wing all metal aircraft for that budget ? I dont want anything fancy, just a lovely aircraft similar to JTD minisport

[jcclark789]

Where are you based?

[eduardobragarocha]

Essa vespa nunca voou a esta velocidade, será que ela poderia dar uma ferruada no piloto? Hehehehe