The Thrill of Flying the World’s Smallest Jet

Last summer while I watched Justin Lewis perform at an airshow in his polished silver BD-5J, that old feeling came back. I longed to strap into a BD-5 jet again. I wanted to dive it along the show line, pull up vertical, gyrate through a Wild Turkey, drift backward into a tail slide, bop the gear up and down, then zoom past the airshow crowd the way we used to in 1975, when I was the third pilot of the BD-5 Jet Team. Sleek as a bullet, efficient as a sailplane, sexy as a little Reno racer, the… (www.airspacemag.com) 更多...