The Beechcraft Starship - Curious.

[YellowDuck]

Look at the boneyard in Tucson on Google Earth. Blows me away, every military aircraft you can imagine there. I have to get out there sometime.

[Super T.I.B]

I just had a look, that place is insane.

I could spend 2 weeks in there playing shoot em ups.


Pew Pew Pew.

[77south]

There was a big article on these planes in the Smithsonian Air & Space magazine a couple years ago.  It agrees with the assessment that the FAA certification process for this plane was a nightmare.  Despite that it was composite, in order to be certified it still had to be built like an aluminum aircraft, with the result that it was overbuilt and heavier than designed.  That caused performance to suffer.

[Le Pirate]

Look at the boneyard in Tucson on Google Earth. Blows me away, every military aircraft you can imagine there. I have to get out there sometime.

if you go to the pima air and space museum, you can get a ticket for the boneyard tour (bring photo ID), which takes you all through the boneyard ( 1 hour tour). Totally worth the 7 bucks.



original topic--I think I remember something about them being super noisy due to the dual pusher configuration, thus being part or their downfall too

[DY]

I see one of those at Camarillo occasionally.

Avantair is based there, they have a hangar full of those Piaggio's

[angler]

Before homeland security became an issue, you used to be able to roam around out there.  I grew up in Tucson and we used to sneak out there and get involved in all sorts of shenanigans.

[TJR178]

I saw a Piaggio on it's final over my house one day - awesome looking plane.  Doesn't Sully (the Pitchman) have one of those?  I seem to remember he and Billy climbing into one of those going to a meeting on a past show.