[ericthecurdog]

The first manned supersonic flight by an aircraft developed by a small company's private, non-government effort.

AHEM. Someone forgot the Bede Aircraft BD-10… first supersonic aircraft developed by a small company's private, non-government effort.

Pretty sweeeeet...

[Frank_Discussion]

Such things happen when you get real excited, I guess...

[jim_trent]

Have any other than the concept plane flown? The one I saw at Oshkosh a few years ago had not even flown at that time, but I read it had flown a while later. I don't remember reading that it had broken the sound barrier, either.

[chaosagent]

Did the BD-10 ever fly?

[RightWhale]

the BD-10 (dubbed the Micro Systems Aerial Target, MSAT) as its entry in the next generation target drone market-place

There are 2 BD-10s left. Grounded.

[RoughDobermann]

I'm pretty sure the BD-10 never went supersonic.

[hattend]

I don't think the BD-10 ever made it to mach 1. It killed most of the company test pilots and the owner of the company that bought the rights from Bede with flutter problems.

[185JHP]

Until the tail fell off and it crashed.

[My2Cents]

Good knowledge!

[XHogPilot]

AHEM. Someone forgot the Bede Aircraft BD-10…

Jim Bede's BD-10 was an awesome concept, but not successful. The first company developing it lost it's president in a BD-10 flap assymetry crash. The company that then took over lost it's president in a BD-10 structural failure crash.