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A walk around an FBO, or better still and airline terminal, shows you what really works in terms of doing what owners want and keeping the builder in business. The turboprop-powered Piper Cheyenne was also faster than the Starship. Mac, did you fly the Avanti? Reality Check: Voyager, a far more ambitious project than the Lindberg crossing, was a Burt Rutan design. How the decision was made is also quite interesting and would make a nice second chapter to your story about the Starship. I remember one evening sitting in a Wichita bar with Mike Potts, who worked in Beech PR at the time — imagine that, a writer and PR guy in a bar — discussing the Starship’s future. Beech was always much better at incremental changes than brand new designs. Maybe the wing-to-fuselage intersection could have been handled better. The Piaggio Avanti, however, is a rare example of an aircraft which takes the pusher's inherent advantages to their logical conclusion. plausibly starting up electric-car companies, and with the full might Master Rutan’s experience on hand, are there no well-heeled folks intrigued enough to pursue STARSHIP-II ? Yes Beechcraft embarked on a revolutionary change in design, manufacturing, and certification. Yes. A few months later, the 85% prototype made its first public outing at the NBAA in Dallas. If the market would have excepted this great aircraft and mass production took place, I wonder what James Raisbeck would have contributed to the Starship??? Bests, A real “winner”. A friend of mine flies P180s used by ENAV to check ILS, VOR and instrumental procedures and is very happy with this ship. Development. Mr. Scherer, That's the difficulty with being on the bleeding edge of technology. My earlier comment about cast steel ashtrays is not fiction. 30 years later its systems including landing gear, and other mechanical systems are easily repairable and supportable in the field. Beechcraft Starship and Piaggio Avanti side-by-side - YouTube He was on the Flying Magazine staff for 35 years and editor-in-chief for 20 of those years. Did you just make it up? 4) the performance of the forward canard was greatly diminished if contaminated by frost or other contaminants which could lead to an off airport excursion on take off if left unchecked. The forward wing sweeps to keep the aircraft from pitching down during flap deployment. Mark Wyant wrote:LOL naaaah more like this.. F37AFFEF-D2AE-464E-905D-0B71BEB0DA81.jpeg. The rudders are at the end of the wings, they look like huge winglets. A walk around Oshkosh shows you that almost any contraption with a wing and a CG in a somewhat reasonable location can get off the ground. A lovely aircraft does not need to be an efficient one, nor the vice versa, but often looks go with good handling. The gear was locked down with some braces on the actuator links on the nose wheel. It was a jaw-dropping experience. Robert Scherer – Owner/Pilot, Starship NC-51. The Starship with her flexible wing gave an incredibly smooth ride, all passengers loved it. The stuff of dreams, the plane was simply too extravagant beyond practicality, but still something to behold aloft, and someone was proud enough to show it off that day. One of the many reasons why despite a globe with endless water runways, we do not have an adequate range of such types available. Mac Mc. Historically, how many other aircraft have been built that ended up being colossal failures? How many hours of Starship time do you have Mark? As a Flight Service Specialist at Macon AFSS (MCN, and not to be confused with MAC), while giving a face-to-face pilot briefing, when I asked for the type aircraft, the pilot replied, “A Scareship! I have had a long and very successful career. Anytime you have a pusher configuration, the Prop will pass through two different masses of moving air. The Starship is the best airplane Beech has ever built. Powered by Pratt & Whitney PT6A-66 turboprops 634 kW each, designed and built by Piaggio, … Not Rutan, but Beech. You are wrong about the ash trays. The airplane is certified to fly at FL 410, even with the extra 3,000 lbs of unnecessary weight mandated by the FAA. You ruined it. He was selling another Beech offering; a Beechjet, if I remember correctly. This is below FAA stage-3 noise limits, which set a maximum of 89 EPNdB for takeoff. Some believe a forward wing (canard) instead of a conventional horizontal tail is more efficient because it always lifts while the normal tail produces balancing downforce. Out the door price is currently running about $7.7 million with lots of bells and whistles, and a beautiful leather interior. From afar, the planes may appear similar, but it should be noted that the Avanti has a normal looking tail; the Starship doesnt really have a tail at all. There was a small lobby on our side of the hangar in front of our office with just a couple of chairs. A nice turboprop with almost jet performances. Keep up the good work Mac and I eagerly await reading the bio. Mac Mc, If the FAA had allowed the Starship to be built as Burt Rutan had designed her, she would have blown away the King Air in every way. Not familiar with the area, but I don't see a problem. A close look at a composite structure tells you nothing about what’s going on below the surface. The two competing technologies were traditional “lay up” and “filament winding”. Landing speed is surprisingly similar, 150+-3 km/h for both. The thinking went something like, “Our company, Beech, dominates the turboprop market. The first prototype flew on 23 September 1986. In fact, that just might be the biggest mistake you ever made. Powered by Pratt & Whitney PT6A-67A turboprops 895 kW each, designed by by Burt Rutan and Scaled composites, the maker of planes that fly around the world nonstop, or rocket planes that go to space. If Beech came to me today and offered a brand new King Air 350i in exchange for my Starship I would politely decline. What is not normal is the descent down into the muck of zealous disagreements. Tim Schramer (Control Surface Structural Design, Beechcraft 2000A Program, 1983-85.). It is hard to imagine that the initial design phase for the Starship started in the late 1970’s. You are also wrong about the ventral fin. One company was building the fuselage, the second the wings. It's completely free, and we will not share your information with anyone. I did not work on the Starship, I was off on other projects such as the 38P, the King Air F90, and the Beech 1200 Commuter Airliner, all developed around the same time. I was actually working on a free print-it-yourself trump card game with rocket engines some years back, to help familiarize oneself with their features, I still think I have the publisher files stashed somewhere. The three surface configuration allows for a far aft placement of the wing spar. With that said, let’s stop the mud-slinging and keep the dialogue professional and educational. You don’t have to carry Burt Rutan’s water!! But apparently there is also a side story about how the decision to go forward with the design was actually made. In both the Starship and the Skymaster, I wonder what they could have been with 2018 technology, composites, FAA acceptance of new ideas (and not bad ideas of over-engineering 3000lbs of unneeded structure) and modern marketing. The Lear Fan was also a pusher but with a single propeller. We were circling with the fleet behind the starting line in light, fluky air awaiting the breeze to build enough wind for the racing comittee to signal a start. Because of their unusual-ness in the broader aviation world, many pusher designs are relatively famous. Very interesting article. Ibis Aerospace Ae 270 HP. I cringe still when the Starship is described by so many as high-tech, and futuristic. The french site claims Starship used over five times the research development budget, and the craft looks like an enlarged EZ, so nothing that novel aerodynamically. One camp believed that airplane would deliver its promise of 400 mph cruise speed, jet level of vibration and quiet, and range pushing out close to 2,000 miles. Your email address will not be published. Blackhawk Aersopace's new STC combines a Pratt & Whitney Canada powerplant with a five-blade Hartzell propeller to create the world's fastest King Air. Furthermore, I invite you to interview the 3 guys flying the airplane and the guys that work on the airplane and keep them flying. Well Mr. Calder, I must admit that I don’t know much about the Starship, but I can tell you for sure that you lost 100% of your credibility as an engineer and all other categories when you said that Jesus made mistakes. He said “why not just go all the way round.” So I did. If all I could fly was an ultralight, I'd do it. And so did memories of the crushing oil embargos of the 1970s. Hindsight is 20-20 and obviously it wasn’t a success. Beechcraft Starship Blackhawk XP67A King Air 350 Series Blackhawk XP67A King Air 300 Series EPIC E1000 EPIC LT IAI HeronTP. That was the setup for the decision makers at Raytheon. Starship 2000A, Mac. And those airplanes all look pretty much the same. Maybe attempted today the outcome would have been more positive. The picture found on a French website speaks quite a lot (translation should be trivial): Avanti and Starship top views and specifications comparison. treadigraph: —Quicksilver T @ 03:56, 5 June 2010 (UTC) And sweep degrades stability, particularly in yaw-roll coupling. I got a kick out of watching a Starship go up against Airwolf. The other big difference is that no order holder lost their deposits on the Starship. I could see he was about ready to blow a fuse as he informed me in all his years of corporate flying(in Gulfstreams, no doubt) his company pilots had never taken him to the wrong airport. As the Starship empty weight soared, the whole program would have collapsed except for a new FAA certification program called commuter category. Could these be the reasons why the Starship never became a commercial success, with only 53 having been operated commercially? Together with a a select group of Beech executives, we saw this very unusual machine take to the skies. The Piaggo suffers from a terrible supply chain problem including a landing gear that costs in excess of 200K to overhaul, and the Cheyanne is just a sub-par build quality airplane (my opinion) as an (aerospace engineer, aircraft mechanic, and an ATP). Back in the day of Olive Ann Beech and Frank Hedrick, the back of the envelope calculations said that you had to sell between 70 to 100 units of a new design to break even. Descubre (y guarda) tus propios Pines en Pinterest. A testament to the integrity of the organization. Bests, Starship (this is nice): Avanti (this is boring and low quality): Starship: First flight in february 1986. Bests, However, the design lessons learned, the sustainability of platform lessons learned, and the composite manufacturing lessons learned were instrumental for the aerospace industry. In a conventional metal airframe there are many lap joints in the skin and other spots where components are fastened. I would think the P180 wing more efficient than the Starship wing, which is swept. He holds several business jet type ratings and has logged more than 10,000 hours. Avionics: Engine: 2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67A Power: I own and fly a Skymaster and I face a daily barrage of Mixmaster jokes, maintenance ridicule and etc.. Yes commercially Beechcraft failed, but had they not been acquired by (bean counter led companies) instead of aviation purists (designers, pilots, engineers, coupled with fiscal sense) that could pursue true design change, it might have been a different story. I think that the Piaggio could have a greater success if it could have a more affordable cost. Piaggio has sold 225 versions of the 180, currently in the 3rd generation with the EVO. Of course there is much more to the Starship attempt than what you can describe in a short article; the personalities involved come to mind. In this article and in the comments, I learned new information on “pusher prop” aerodynamics and I learned that I now lust to fly a Starship. Wouldn’t you agree? In the end, a King Air 300/350 was a better airplane. Trying new things can be fun and once in awhile can advance a technology. The mind boggles. The Starship is probably the quietest turboprop ever built. My comment here may be a bit anticlimactic. And composites seemed to be at least somewhat proven. PT6A-67AG. Today’s King Air 350 is a terrific airplane, and a best seller, but if that billion dollars had gone into building on the King Air instead of chasing a dream we would have an airplane now that is several inches larger in cabin section, more fuel efficient because of a newer wing design, and less costly to maintain because of modern system design and materials use. OK, unfortunately this video is out of date and there are no longer 53 of these beautiful planes flying. Like Nick Jones once told me “Even the heathen Indians knew the feathers went on the back of the arrow”, I see 325 kts at FL320 at standard temperature. The 85 percent scale model of the Starship was a stroke of genius. When one examines a failure of such monumental scale as the Beech Starship program, the inevitable question is, “Why did they do that?” As in almost every instance where things go badly wrong, it was a series of decisions made under shifting circumstances that led to the ultimate disaster. Thanks Mac. Feb 10, 2020 - Explore Jarrod Cunningham's board "Starship" on Pinterest. Using carbon fiber reinforced plastic could cut airframe weight by huge amounts, proponents claimed. Likewise, contemplating why we aren’t seeing Beech Starships filling our skies is fascinating. The Piaggio is proof of the concept. As a former Beech Aircraft Engineer, I can tell you that Beech designed the Starship, all Rutan did was take the Beech design and manufacture a reduced-scale prototype Starship used for marketing justification purposes and a bit of proof-of-concept flight testing. God is to be reverenced, not taken lightly. Because of their unusual-ness in the broader aviation world, many pusher designs are relatively famous. Nebenbei bemerkt, ich mag das Starship, und falls jemand zu Jack Daniels in Tennessee kommt, hat der nächstgelegene Flughafen (KTHA) ein Beechcraft Museum auf dem Feld mit einem dieser.Während ihrer langsamen Saison gingen mein Bruder und ich dorthin, und die Museumsmitarbeiter ließen uns hinein gehen.Das Museum heißt "The Staggerwing Museum". I often take off and land without them. You sound like a zealot. The Piaggio is a much better airplane-- the Starship was just too heavy, and didn't meet the performance goals. Required fields are marked *. However even Jesus made mistakes. The Piaggio Avanti is a three surface airplane. The vision behind the Starship is to be celebrated. Why did the Piaggio 180 succeed? The STARSHIP was a marketing disaster because the FAA kept changing the certification fatigue requirements. 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