Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason! wrote:
From: Stewart Pinkerton
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:39:24 +0000 (UTC)

Bede BD-5

Jet or prop? Those little jets were pretty cool, IMO.

The 5J was the only one that ever worked but there never was an
available engine. Thanks to the liability load of horse**** blown by
the incompetents of Sedgwick County and promulgated by sons of whores
like Collins, Mclellan, Lert and others, and probably also some
underhanded DoD machinations, every vendor of these mysteriously
refused to sell.

The successful-such as it is-application has been either Rotax or
Honda power.