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WanderingEng · 1226 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why Did This Crazy Kitplane Kill So Many Pilots?
There is a very good chance my dad stood behind this author and handed Bede the next check. I'm 100% sure he put down a deposit on some kit plane (while, by his own admission, he was living in an apartment), and 100% sure he was going to EAA in the 1970s. I'm just just not sure if it was a BD-5. I'll have to ask him.On August 2, 1972, standing near a taxiway at Wittman Field in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, I pressed a check for $200 into the hand of a short, fat guy in a red shirt.