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The BD-5 Micro is a series of small single-seat homebuilt aircraft created in the late 1960s by US aircraft designer Jim Bede and introduced to the market primarily in kit form by the now-defunct Bede Aircraft Corporation in the early 1970s.The BD-5 has a small streamlined fuselage holding its semi-reclined pilot under a large canopy with the engine installed in a compartment in the middle of the fuselage and a propeller or jet engine in the BD-5J variant mounted immediately to the rear of the cockpit.