Bede BD-5J in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Image courtesy of Patrick Chovanec] For this session in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I’m flying the Bede BD-5J, the world’s smallest jet ...

Octopussy, where the Roger Moore piloted the tiny BD-5J microjet through a hangar to dodge a missile. It was one of the Bond Franchise's most memorable moments. Some 30 years later, the tiny BD-5J ...

In the opening scene of the 1983 James Bond movie, Octopussy, Agent 007 flies the world's smallest jet aircraft — the Bede BD-5J, while evading potential captors and a heat-seeking missile.

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 ...

Bede BD-5J—Perhaps no airplane has inspired more excitement among private pilots than the jet version of Jim Bede's tiny BD-5 homebuilt kit airplane. Powered by a French TRS-18 turbojet of 225 ...

James “Jim” Bede, the sometimes-controversial airplane designer who created more than a dozen airplanes types since the 1960s — including the Bede BD-5J micro jet that appeared in a James ...

Bishop and his Marana-based company, Aerial Productions International Inc., build and fly a modified version of the Bede BD-5J, the world's smallest manned jet aircraft at just 12 feet long and ...