Weres that DB5 with the 130rs ??

[Viv]

So were has that old BD5 with the two 130r Gluhareffs got too? any body know?

It would be fun to fix the 130s or fit some new GLC 200s and see it actuelly fly.

Viv

[Mike Everman]

Yeah, man that was sexy.

[skyfrog]

BD5 a perfect airframe for our 150lbs turbojet engine. We have a 1000lbs turbofan under development, is it too big for BD5 ?

BTW, here's a turbojet version BD5

http://www.bd5.com/my5j.htm

[Mark]

How come they didn't mount the engines directly behind the pilot instead off to the sides? Or maybe the pilot was a skinny fellow and his backside wasn't big enough. ; ) It's just a streamline factor I posed awhile back, saying the more streamline the engine the better.
Of course there are several planes that do so, but there are quite a few that opt to hang them on the wing or somewhat off-center for some reason.
Mark
http://www.pbase.com/unguy/image/28517136
http://home.flash.net/~mzinkand/b36/b36-pics.htm
http://www.aerospace-technology.com/pro ... et45_2.jpg
http://www.wvi.com/%7Esr71webmaster/srspee%7E1.htm

[luc]

Found this one in our Bagotville Military Base airshow archives ... But no 130R behind ...

Just a 240 lbs. thrust turbine on it ...

Keep on looking ...

Cya,

[Ghrey]

I all ways wanted one of those, I think I even still have prints around here somewhere.

Good question, I have no Idea, ...

[Mark]

I recently read an article in the September issue of Air and Space at work about the BD-5. One time the pilot experienced low oil pressure and had to land on a highway and coasted down an off-ramp into a gas station running over those rubber hoses that went ding-ding when a car rolls over them and came to a stop, back in the days when you didn't have to pump your own gas. ha
The Bond film decided to use this true story in the film, sort of a tongue-in-cheek humor, I guess a perfect match for the film's genre. The pilot even saved the newspaper article about the event to prove that it was true.
PS I had to type this paragraph twice now, (the first write-up was better), I lost power and am under a tornado warning from hurricane Gustav that is about to hit Louisiana, the center of the hurricane about 200 miles west of me. ha
http://www.airspacemag.com/issue/Aug-Sept_2008.html

[Ghrey]

Thank you for that Mark, I for one greatly appreciate the info.

Got to find those prints...

[luc]

Nobody ever did find that Old BD5 with two 130R ...

I wounder if someone will ever get a shot at getting and refurbishing them on day?

[Ghrey]

Thank you for that reminder; I have been doing some cleaning up lately and some new file boxes have turned up, I'l give them a look.

[luc]

Thank you for that reminder; I have been doing some cleaning up lately and some new file boxes have turned up, I'l give them a look.

No problems ...
I was just going over old stuff my self as last evening was a relaxe one ...
Amazing ... Looking back an seing all the things that can happen in just a few years ...