Starship?

[flyboy 28]

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..?

[Jakemaster]

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

[Jakemaster]

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

[Rifleman]

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......

[Drake_TigerClaw]

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.

[Jakemaster]

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

[expat]

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

[lilley91]

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

[flyboy 28]

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.