The Thrill of Flying the World’s Smallest Jet

Published by Smithsonian Magazine, August 2014. Written by Debbie Gary.Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/thrill-flying-worlds-smallest-jet-180952134/
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 ...