The Bede BD-5 is the world’s smallest jet. Made popular in the early 1980s when it appeared in a James Bond film, the tiny single-seater was conceived in the 1970s by famed kitplane designer Jim ...

Sleek as a bullet, efficient as a sailplane, sexy as a little Reno racer, the BD-5 was the key piece in Jim Bede’s 1970s dream of affordable, fun flying for the masses. Bede had already hit a ...

Image courtesy of Patrick Chovanec The BD-5 was designed in the late 1960s by Jim Bede, an ambitious thinker remembered (when he died in 2019) as someone who “made lots of promises, convincingly ...

Learn more. Measuring 12 feet long with a wingspan of 17 feet, pilot Peter Reny’s Bede BD-5 microjet looks more like a coin-operated kiddie ride than an aircraft capable of aerobatic maneuvers ...

In the opening scene of the 1983 James Bond movie, Octopussy, Agent 007 flies the world's smallest jet aircraft — the Bede BD-5J, while evading potential captors and a heat-seeking missile.

Actually, the fiberglass shell that protected the two passengers placed in tandem was reminiscent of the Bede BD-5 small aircraft, another of Jim Bede’s creations. See Also: PAL-V Liberty ...

This colorful Bede BD-J5 takes a break from the action at an airshow in Sion, Switzerland in June 1989. Anton Heumann, www.swissandmore.de The idea of a small, affordable personal jet has long ...

This composite kit-plane evolves the basic idea of the Bede BD-5 single-seat kit plane, the propeller-driven version of Bond’s tiny jet. The biggest difference is the fact that Ellipse is a ...

A Bede BD-5J single-seater microjet of the Red Bull ... Guido was on his way back from an event in [the] Tyrol, flying a BEDE-5 of the Flying Bulls. "When problems occurred with the engine ...