GIANT SCALE RC BEDE BD-8 - DLE 222cc FLAT FOUR - PAUL & ANDY AT LMA ELVINGTON AIRSHOW - 2025

PILOT - LMA CHAIRMAN ANDY JOHNSON,
OWNER - PAUL NEEDHAM,

HERES A RARELY MODDELED AIRCRAFT BUILT BY THE LATE DOUG RIGBY AND NOW OWNED BY PAUL NEEDHAM,
THIS DLE 222cc POWERED MODEL WAS FLOWN FOR PAUL BY LMA CHAIRMAN DAVE JOHNSON AT THE LMA EAST KIRKBY SHOW AND ALSO THERE ARE A COUPLE OF CLIPS OF HER FLYING AT LMA RAF ELVINGTON THROWN IN AS WELL,

INFO ON MODEL FROM PAUL -

Hi Pete, the Bede 8 model was built by the late Doug Rigby, I bought it earlier this year,
he firstly built a balsa one then after doing four or five flights with it he stripped everything out and used it for a plug to make this fiberglass one, wings are built up with glass cloth finish.

Engine is a DLE 222cc flat four cylinder petrol with 34 x 12 prop. all up weight is approx 40kg.

INFO ON REAL AIRCRAFT -

The Bede BD-8 was an aerobatics aircraft developed in the United States in the mid-1970s. It was a low-wing, single-seat monoplane of conventional configuration, albeit very short-coupled, and of all-metal construction.

Cruise speed: 190 mph (306 km/h)
Rate of climb: 2,000 ft/min (10.2 m/s)
Top speed: 346 km/h
Wingspan: 5.94 m
Length: 5.31 m
Designer: Jim Bede
Number built: 1
First flight: 1980

Crew: one pilot
Length: 17 ft 5 in (5.31 m)
Wingspan: 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
Height: 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Wing area: 97.0 ft2 (9.01 m2)
Aspect ratio: 3.9:1
Empty weight: 975 lb (442 kg)
Gross weight: 1,510 lb (685 kg)
Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming IO-360-A1A air-cooled flat-four, 200 hp (149 kW)

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