Who Am I?

**Gil** · #1 12-08-2007, 04:45 AM

The following should be fairly easy. But to win you must also state the name of the plane that the designer used as a reference for the cockpit design...,

+Gil

**Texman** · #2 12-08-2007, 05:25 AM

That would be a BD-5j, with the cockpit based on the ASW-15 glider.

Close?

Ray

**Gil** · #3 12-08-2007, 09:47 AM

Ray is the winner! You have to get up pretty early in the morning to fool this crowd! Nessun Dorma....,

+Gil

**shrike** · #4 12-08-2007, 11:21 AM

Did you ever see the A'capella? Circa 1983 - it was an attempt to redeem all of the unfinished BD5 kits. It was a twin boom design using the BD5 cockpit and wings as outer panels. New wing stubs carried the booms and tail. The big selling point was that it used a conventional a/c engine. Claims were for phenomenal speed

**Gil** · #5 12-08-2007, 11:55 AM

Any pictures Shrike?

+Gil

**shrike** · #6 12-08-2007, 05:30 PM

Gah! Maybe, but they'd be likely to be 110 snapshots if I still have any. I did find this one:
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/040944.html

A quick bit of research mentions it in the wikipedia BD5 article. Evidently the one and only Acapella prototype flew poorly and is in the museum at Oshkosh.