Robert Loer wrote: > Did not somebody, Mark perhaps, just post a note about his trip to > Australia > and a picture of a BD5 he watched fly? > > Is this not the same BD5 that just crashed? Pilot appears to be OK. > > http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=29246
Yes, same one. Here are two more pictures: http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/australia/070504334m.jpg shows Peter and his hangar mate flying formation at high speed, and http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/australia/070504283m.jpg shows Peter (on the right) talking to Don Railton (the guy that took me to Serpentine) about flying his BD5. The paint scheme was adopted for a documentary that was shot earlier this year. You can see the engine access door is removed so we could see the Civic engine inside. He'd had several forced landings with this setup, as is often the case with a totally "one-off" auto engine conversion of this kind. The fllying demo that these two guys put on was quite impressive. Fortuantely, Peter has another crated BD5 body in his hangar, so I expect another one to be in the works shortly. He also has a KR project that could be flying in under a year... Mark Langford, Harvest, AL see homebuilt airplane at http://www.N56ML.com email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
