Jim Bede

Aircraft designer Jim Bede, at the BD-5 Expo 2000 in Fort Worth, Texas

James R. "Jim" Bede (17 April 1933 – 9 July 2015)^[1] was an American aircraft designer. He designed well over a dozen aircraft since the 1960s, but a string of business failures have kept most of these designs out of widespread use.

Bede died of an aneurysm in Cleveland, Ohio, aged 82.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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BD-4 equipped with conventional landing gear
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At Pima Air & Space Museum
A Bede BD-10 on display at an airshow

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Bede Corp. Official announcement in memory of Jim Bede (9 July 2015). Retrieved 11 July 2015.
↑ Gone West: Jim Bede. Aero News Network (10 July 2015). Retrieved 11 July 2015.
↑ Kitplane Designer Jim Bede Dies. avweb.com. Retrieved 11 July 2015.

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[death-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Bede Corp. Official announcement in memory of Jim Bede (9 July 2015). Retrieved 11 July 2015.

[2] Gone West: Jim Bede. Aero News Network (10 July 2015). Retrieved 11 July 2015.

[3] Kitplane Designer Jim Bede Dies. avweb.com. Retrieved 11 July 2015.

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