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Yesterday I was at my friends house in her pool, and I saw what looked like a Beech Starship fly over. It had those swept wings with the elevator canard in front. To my knowledge, I thought they all were retired, but maybe not..?

Yesterday I was at my friends house in her pool, and I saw what looked like a Beech Starship fly over. It had those swept wings with the elevator canard in front. To my knowledge, I thought they all were retired, but maybe not..?

Theres a few flying.  But was it a twin turbo that you saw?  Maybe you say a Rutan Long-Ez, those look like mini starships

Possibly a Piaggio P180

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_P-180_Avanti

Nice little aircraft.

But if he thought it was a starship I doubt it was a Piaggio, the two look nothing alike

Avanti with swept wings ?.....none that I've ever seen !
Starship has no vertical stabilizer above the rear fuse....it has two, on the tips of the main wing......
Avanti has a T-tail.......
Starship has only two separate horizontal surfaces(canard and wing), while the Avanti has three (canard, wing, horizontal stab)..........

.......some pretty large differences there ?

Although not to scale, you can see that it would be pretty hard to confuse the two......

Most Beech Starships are retired and awaiting destruction but a hundfull were bought by some guy who keeps them running. But apperently they have been downgraded to Experimental class so they cant be flown commercially anymore.

Avanti with swept wings ?.....none that I've ever seen !
Starship has no vertical stabilizer above the rear fuse....it has two, on the tips of the main wing......
Avanti has a T-tail.......
Starship has only two separate horizontal surfaces(canard and wing), while the Avanti has three (canard, wing, horizontal stab)..........

.......some pretty large differences there ?

Although not to scale, you can see that it would be pretty hard to confuse the two......

Thats why I highly doubt it would be confused lol

Yesterday I was at my friends house in her pool, and I saw what looked like a Beech Starship fly over. It had those swept wings with the elevator canard in front. To my knowledge, I thought they all were retired, but maybe not..?

You are at your friends house, in her pool and you are looking at aeroplanes...................sad :-/

Matt

ex-pat, i agree completely, if your in her pool i think that there will be something a lot more tasty to look at...

well in my case that is
(no joke)
some FUN summer days to be spent there!!!

cheers
james

You are at your friends house, in her pool and you are looking at aeroplanes...................sad :-/

Matt

I had a feeling this would come up It sounded different than a Cessna which would usually fly over, so I had to look up.