Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucsfcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!rl From: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Son of AA-1 Message-ID: <608@ucsfcgl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 11:45:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ucsfcgl.608 Posted: Thu Aug 8 11:45:59 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 02:15:02 EDT Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab Lines: 33 <--- What homebuilt, promised for debut in 15 months, answers to the following description? "About the size of a squat, clipped wing Grumman Yankee..." "...takeoff runs as short as 400 ft" "...at an operational weight of 2400 lbs...able to climb at 434 kts from takeoff at a 45 degree angle up through 20,000 ft" "...capable of supersonic flight up to speeds of about Mach 1.6" I quote from "Private Pilot" Aug 1985 (No, not April 1 1985 :-). Answer: What else but the latest from Jim Bede, the BD-10J, powered by a civilian version of the 2950 lb thrust GE J-85. After the BD-5J, and earlier interesting precursors, I suppose the BD-10J is a logical successor. You must admit that Bede is an imaginative guy. Me, I think I'll have to be satisfied with Mach 0.15 (I can't afford $95,200 for the BD-10J kit (less engine) :-) --|-- *~~~~~~~~\bob/~~~~~~~~* ^ ^ Bob Langridge ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!rl (UUCP) Computer Graphics Laboratory 926 Medical Sciences rl@berkeley (ARPA) University of California San Francisco CA 94143 Phone: +1 415 666 2630