| Date: July 27th, 2005 |
BD-4 Banquet planned for OSH |
The banquet is on Thursday the 28 at 6 pm this year. The builder's meeting
is on Friday eve at Gruenhagen Hall. |
| Date:May 28th, 2004 |
BD-4 Banquet planned for OSH |
Joe Linau and Scott DeGaynor are planning a BD-4 banquette for this year's
fly-in at Oshkosh again.
The banquet is on Thursday the 29 of July this year, at the Delta family
Restaurant. Cost is around 15 dollars, cash bar, family style food. The
location is near the UW Oshkosh campus.
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| Date: March 11th, 2004 |
Bede Corp L.L.C. Makes All Metal Wing Available |
The following emails were sent by Jim Bede and announce the availablility
of the new wing, and in fact the first roadmap of the new BD-4 program:
From: Jim Bede
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:30 |
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Hi Holger:
I'm sending you a copy of a press release we are sending out. I
have JLN Distributors now take the orders and make delivery the
new wings. BedeCorp will stock the remaining BD 4 materials and
will be sending out the a new price list. The plans for the all
metal wing are now available for $90.00. The wing can be built with
the new or original spars. Anyone can contact me at jim@bedecorp.com
Jim Bede
"PRESS RELEASE
Jim Bede of BedeCorp LLC, is pleased to announce the design
of an All Metal Wing for the BD-4 using honeycomb ribs and metal
skin. This wing is completely bonded with space age adhesives
that results in an extremely smooth external skin free of rivets.
It can utilize the original BD-4 flaps, ailerons and wing tips.
The new wing spars can be installed on the BD-4 original center
section.
For more information contact JLN Distributors at www.jimbede.com
The new wing will be on display at Sun N Fun. This wing will be
at booth LD 006."
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From: Jim Bede
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:32 |
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[...] JLN Distributors is a company that
is selling our BD-17 and setting up dealers around the country.
They have a warehouse and stock all of the BD-17 parts. They will
be stocking and selling the new wing materials. This will include
spars, ribs and other individual parts. The ribs will be pre cut
and ready for installation. They will have a package price for
the complete wing less wing tips, flaps and ailerons. They will
also sell the complete wing kit less the wing spar for those who
already have a spar and who want to install this new wing. BedeCorp
LLC will stock all of the remaining materials for a complete BD-4
kit. Initially we will be having control surfaces, wing tips,
fuselage angles, landing gears and nose wheel assemblies. Standard
hardware, basic instruments and other easy to locate items will
be the last things we will have in stock. We plan to continually
upgrade what BD-4 materials we do have and the current prices.
We do not plan on taking any orders on items that are not ready
for immediate shipment. We are building up a mailing list of all
of our past customers and those who recently purchased BD-4 plans
or books. We will keep them aware of material prices. Initially,
we will offer material kits to our original BD-4 kits. Gradually
if it becomes economically practical, we will provide more and
more of the parts formed,
machined or welded. At some point we will have the fuselage angles
precut and the gussets preformed. We hope to keep our eyes and
ears open and try learn what our customer of today would like
or need. We will do our best to fill those requirements. Looking
at your web site and seeing all the pictures of finished BD-4s
and seeing BD-4s at Oshkosh and other shows make me very proud
not of the design of the aircraft, but the customers that did
the real hard work in finishing their aircraft. Some of these
are
absolutely beautiful and your web site does all our builders real
pride. What a great group!!!
Jim Bede
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The message below had pictures attached that I put up on this
page here.
From: Jim Bede
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:56 |
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[...] We have completed our test for the new wing. The results were
fantastic. We first tested a section of the wing over one rib and
went to 14 g's with no failure. We then tested the wing for leaks
by putting air pressure in the tank area and it held the pressure
all night.
We then increased the air pressure to 20 psi. The skin looked
like a quilted pillow and finely failed when the skin wrinkled
at the ends by the rib and let the air out. The total load on
the 4 foot wing section was over 28,000 lbs. There was no failure
of the skin on any part of the ribs.
We took a new BD 4 wing to Sun 'N Fun and inclosing some photos.
The finished wing is very smooth and a lot easier to build then
rivets.
We will be taking orders for complete wing kits with new wing
spars and without for those with the original spars. The ribs
come completely cut and wing skins have the leading edges formed.
The kits come with the adhesives, hardware, and all material needed.
We also will sell any parts separately.
Any one can contact me at 330 721 9999 or e-mail at jim@bedecorp.com
Jim Bede
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