Jim Bede

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Aircraft designer Jim Bede, at the BD-5 Expo 2000 in Fort Worth, Texas

James R. "Jim" Bede (17 April 1933 – 9 July 2015)[1] was an American aircraft designer. He designed well over a dozen aircraft since the 1960s, but a string of business failures have kept most of these designs out of widespread use.

Bede died of an aneurysm in Cleveland, Ohio, aged 82.[1][2][3]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Bede Corp (9 July 2015). "Official announcement in memory of Jim Bede". Archived from the original on 15 September 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  2. "Gone West: Jim Bede". Aero News Network. 10 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  3. "Kitplane Designer Jim Bede Dies". avweb.com. Retrieved 11 July 2015.