Top models include KING AIR 350, 58 BARON, KING AIR B200, A36 BONANZA, KING AIR 200, and KING AIR C90. Max cruise of 402 kts and max range with four paxs of 1700 nm, with a larger interior than any Cessna CJ and a working bathroom, what’s not to like? Mac Mc. My earlier comment about cast steel ashtrays is not fiction. John Murray. That was the setup for the decision makers at Raytheon. Photos are an added bonus. The solution was a mechanism that would sweep, and unsweep the forward wing. Feb 8, 2015 - This Pin was discovered by David Lister. He didn’t have too many good things to say about the Starship. The definitive Piaggio P180 Avanti thread. ... Production and Status of Beechcraft Starship. I was there at the beginning. A catfish on the bud. Benjamin Franklin said he didn’t fail 400 and some odd times in his experiments, he just found 400 and some odd ways not to do things. Hope you took the start. The FAA might understand that carbon fiber is stronger than the traditional materials and gets stronger with age if the aerodynamics were applied to a 21st Century STARSHIP. The other thing that I heard was that the cabin noise level was a King Air in reverse (I flew the King Air 200); quiet for the pilots up front, but noisy for the passengers, sitting back where those props were reverberating off the inverted vertical stab. In the mid 80’s (i’m sure under hypnotism I could recall the exact date; I know it was a Saturday morning) I was racing a 34′ sailboat in an important, publicized regatta on Lake St. Clair, Michigan. This makes the cabin floor clean with no hump. The business jets and airliners of today are far advanced over what was available 25 years ago, but the configurations and outward appearance are little changed. And now he is a part-time corporate pilot flying a King Air 350. We at AQRD in Dallas, TX own and operate two. Beechcraft Starship. 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. Because of that, the big miss on weight, and no realized efficiencies from the forward wing configuration, the Starship missed all of its performance goals, by a lot. Required fields are marked *. The three surface configuration allows for a far aft placement of the wing spar. For some of those, we might even look at plywood/epoxy/foam/fiberglass hulls so well buildable as one-off options to again and again adapt to different needs…. In the end the Starship was the most stable airplane I have ever flown. They range from the Piaggio Avanti and Beechcraft Starship to the large flying wing bombers produced by Northrop in the late 40’s and early 50’s such as the YB-35. It’s still a beautiful futuristic turboprop capable of flying at 400 knots at FL 410 in a quiet cabin. We were then challenged to take a hammer and have a field day banging on the wing. Instead of the big wing being substantially behind the CG, a three surface has the wing just behind the CG. If anyone is interested, I have two McCauley propellers from a Starship on eBay for sale. I’ll bet ZERO. Reality Check: Voyager, a far more ambitious project than the Lindberg crossing, was a Burt Rutan design. The design was originated by Beechcraft in January 1980 as Preliminary Design 330 (PD 330). Back then we prided ourselves on safety and professionalism, and we worked with the FAA on design certification requirements. It would have been a coast to coast airplane. 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. All elevator control is on the forward canard, contrary to the piaggio which has a conventional stabilizer/elevator/rudder. In addition, the canard design of the airframe was almost “stall poof”. It is the possibility of voids or other flaws in the composite layup. Burt Rutan never, ever, certified anything according to the FARs. I didn’ realize that the Starship was such a blunder, or that The Luxurious Turboprop The Beechcraft Starship 2000. 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. Hey Tony, Hard to believe I know for the early 80’s, but the Starship was designed purely on CAD and not part of the slide-rule era. The avionics cooling fans were an absolutely critical item. Looks to me like the Piaggio design has less of a divergent nozzle effect, but still some, which I guess is what accounts for the crazy noise it makes and no, it can’t be good for the prop. Thank,s Robert for offsetting much of the Fake News from Mac. A collaboration with Learjet to develop the aircraft began in 1983 but ended on 13 January 1986, with Piaggio continuing development on its own. Ibis Aerospace Ae 270 HP. My last encounter with the airplane occurred on the ramp of Lane Aviation in Columbus, OH, in 1989 or 1990. The STARSHIP was a marketing disaster because the FAA kept changing the certification fatigue requirements. Mitigating Coronavirus Economic Effects and Finding New Business Opportunities. If you’ve ever been below in a fiberglass boat and a wooden boat powering into a chop you know what I’m talking about. For years I have grabbed my binoculars and run out the back patio door of my house when I hear the distinctive sound of a Starship cruise into Carlsbad, Ca airport. I don’t need to carry Burt’s water, he’s can carry more than all of us combined. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT8qKXPJKdw], [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLrO45MeaJU], Starship: First flight in february 1986. With all due respect, this article is sloppy, biased and poorly researched. Not necessarily evenly, but divided. This distinguishes the aircraft the most from the Piaggio Avanti. If our industry had more risk in its nature we would design more, fly more, test more, fail more, but MOST importantly LEARN more. Thank you, Mac. It was not possible to combine all six primary flight instruments into a single display. You ruined it. However even Jesus made mistakes. I will submit that the citation suffers from horrible reliability of its airframe due to corrosion and fatigue. Bests, PT6A-67A. Furthermore, I invite you to interview the 3 guys flying the airplane and the guys that work on the airplane and keep them flying. I am told the secret is in the design of the fuselage which provides 20% of the lift. It plows through bumps like it’s on rails. The King air is a boring cargo van by comparison. Bests, Did you know that most of the articles at Air Facts are written by readers like you? You do not have to be Richard Collins or Ernest Gann - simply a GA pilot with a story you'd share with friends sitting in the hangar. treadigraph: There were 16, as I recall, individual TV tubes in the instrument panel burning amps and pumping out gobs of heat. I had the Starship for 7 years, prior to the starship I had a B200 King Air and after the starship I had a New King Air 350 also with the active noise suppression system. 22 Sep 2020, 17:44. There is no denying Burt Rutan’s accomplishments. The Avanti has thin straight laminar flow wings that give very little drag. Air Facts still champions, educates, informs and entertains pilots worldwide with real-world flying experiences. That being said, I love the Piaggio and it's peculiar looks. Not exactly a good comparison to the Beech Starship as the P.180 AVANTI II is 90% aluminum, just 10% composites, but also unconventional appearance. They made honest mistakes. Hello Mac, I certainly appreciate the article on the Starship and some of the negatives with the aircraft. Compare your beloved Starship to a Cheyenne 4, that’s the reason it didn’t sell. Owner, Mechanic, Pilot A few months later, the 85% prototype made its first public outing at the NBAA in Dallas. The turboprop-powered Piper Cheyenne was also faster than the Starship. Jake, Bill’s remark was referencing the fact that Richard Collins, perhaps the pre-eminent aviation journalist of the last 50 years, passed away last week. Your email address will not be published. The crew, seeing me gaping upward, turned their faces toward the specticle. Another factor is that, with regard to selling an unusual configuration in the corporate market, a conservative design has an advantage. 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. The interference drag at the main wing intersection is Rutan’s configuration. And a lot of the blame goes to Beech, as you pointed out, for overreaching the needs of the market. Like the Avanti the Beechcraft Starship has an unusual configuration. Did you just make it up? 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. The Starship’s basic configuration was flawed. The airframe has 2695 hours, and the seller points out that the "jet quiet" cabin is a third larger than a King Air 350 at 2/3 the price. Weight, as usual, was an issue so it missed on range, and runway required, but overall a pretty successful original design. Beech did not know how to market new airplanes. And while we are at it, we also REALLY need Super-STOL composite amphibians in a range of sizes… Shared overall geometries. Beechcraft 2000A Starship I on final for runway 19L at ICT. Should you take your grandchildren flying? Mac, I remember when a friend, a Beech salesman, came through Columbus, OH, where I was based as a corporate pilot in the 80’s. More than the usual amount of tweaks and mods were required to bring the Starship flying qualities in line with the rules, but Beech persevered. I feel it is done far too rarely – when reading about technical histories, they follow one project at a time and the reader can’t form a comprehensive picture of things or give meaning to the years and numbers thrown around. 30 years old it has not succumbed to many of the metal fatigue/corrosion issues of King Airs, Citations, Merlins, and other similar aircraft. 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 ? So why should you buy a turboprop when you can get a jet for the same ammount of money? I personally saw one that landed at ICT and had a nose wheel fail. What must also be considered is that to be first and revolutionary you have to take chances. IF I win the lottery I’ll buy a Piaggio and give it the proper paint job. Or just a change in venue? Avionics: Engine: 2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67A Power: This is below FAA stage-3 noise limits, which set a maximum of 89 EPNdB for takeoff. Beech had invited a gathering of customers and attendees to the side of the runway. The actions of others caused that not to happen. I would think the P180 wing more efficient than the Starship wing, which is swept. The turboprop-powered Italian Piaggio P.180 Avanti had a configuration somewhat similar to the Starship (it incorporated a canard as well as a conventional tailplane) and comparable capacity, but was faster. Beechcraft Starship and Piaggio Avanti side-by-side - YouTube More importantly, why did you fail to consider how the airplane would perform if it were designed to Burt Rutan’s original design? The prototype is not the production version, let alone the 2000A version. Upon checking the piaggioaero.com site (such as it is, and does suck), I can find no evidence of a "P.180" designation. The 85 percent scale model of the Starship was a stroke of genius. Thanks for the comments. BeechTalk. Because of their unusual-ness in the broader aviation world, many pusher designs are relatively famous. New to Air Facts? Max fuel and a 1200 pound payload? Aerospace engineers like myself who actually worked for the General Aviation manufacturers grew awfully tired of hearing “Rutan this, Rutan that…” when in fact he studiously avoided anything that would run into actual FARs for certified aircraft. The Piaggio Avanti shares many things in common with the Beechcraft Starship. on the wall. Hi Jim, He along with many of his colleagues were shocked. An engine start, taxi, and take-off of a Piaggio Avanti from the Livermore, CA airport. Very interesting read all the way to the last comment. The vision behind the Starship is to be celebrated. It didn’t take long to learn that composite construction could not deliver the promised weight savings. In the cabin, passengers can converse without raising their voices. We need to follow the great wisdom of the Dragnet TV show: “… just the facts ma’am …”. Hopefully long shall fly the Starship! Anyway, as you know, now Piaggio Aerospace is still in Italy, but it’s owned by the government of Abu Dhabi. He was on the Flying Magazine staff for 35 years and editor-in-chief for 20 of those years. Air Facts was first published in 1938 by Leighton Collins and relaunched in 2011 as an online journal by Richard Collins and Sporty's Pilot Shop. The Starship is the best airplane Beech has ever built. I’ve heard stories about how Scaled composites didn’t know how to make commercially operational craft back then, and maintenance folk actually had to cut holes in the skin to do some work. After five minutes of banging, no visible outside damage was evident. Your email address will not be published. Could these be the reasons why the Starship never became a commercial success, with only 53 having been operated commercially? Starship marks out of 10 for beauty vs. Piaggio Avanti folks? Piaggio P180 vs. other turboprops. About 25 yrs ago I was blessed with the fortune to see a Starship fly overhead near Doylestown Pa. These rare birds are always a very pleasant sight to be seen, thanks to the pilot for bringing it to Wichita and keeping it nice and low! Friday 2009.12.04 by gravityloss. 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 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 light weight and almost instant build that the Rutan shop could do for an experimental airplane had to have mislead Beech executives, at least a little, on how long it would take and how much it would weigh, to build the real thing. Aircraft designs in the 70-80’s were not as solid and vetted as they are today (and today I argue that every airplane I see is just reconstituted designs from the 80’s). A recession — that hit general aviation particularly hard — cast a pall over the future. With the added weight, the performance numbers also fell far short of the objectives. Succeed or fail, I admire that they tried. Oh, and Mac, your wrong about the flaps. But I couldn’t help thinking what could have, and should have, been instead of the Starship. Not many P180's in this part of Europe, so I'm seeking information from owners/operators/pilots of this fine piece of machinery. The manufactured airframe must meet all load requirements with all of the possible undetectable poor bonds or other flaws that can occur. I have refrained from releasing details of this chapter, since it is not proper to unveil secrets about the activity of those who have and will be customers of the companies I founded. Piaggio has sold 225 versions of the 180, currently in the 3rd generation with the EVO. In this month’s Aircraft Comparative Analysis, Mike Chase provides information on two popular turboprops for the purpose of valuing the King Air 350i and 350iER. In fact, other makers of turboprop twins had dropped production, or gone out of business entirely. Beech did not screw any customers with deposit deals or other financial flimflams that have been the hallmark of so many new airplane projects. The turboprop-powered Italian Piaggio P.180 Avanti had a configuration somewhat similar to the Starship (it incorporated a canard as well as a conventional tailplane) and comparable capacity, but was faster. toggie F1 World Champ Piaggio Avanti EVO is the latest chapter in the story of the aircraft which rewrote the rulebook on aviation elegance and practicality. Maybe attempted today the outcome would have been more positive. Praise the designers and builders of such craft. I think it can be done at 2500 MSL, but I looked at…. Competition in a man’s sport: top six women in early US flight, Remembering a Christmas tragedy 50 years later, The forever weekend: flying my Cheetah to Canada. The forward wing sweeps to keep the aircraft from pitching down during flap deployment. The Piaggio is proof of the concept. 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. And those airplanes all look pretty much the same. How many hours of Starship time do you have Mark? That example is duplicated all over that plane. In the end they even paid full market value to buy back the few that had actually been purchased, not leased. Bests, Would Master Rutan have ‘second’ thoughts on this theme? Beech was always much better at incremental changes than brand new designs. The Avanti can carry between seven and nine people plus the pilot. Nada. Textron, Gulfstream, Embraer build airplanes like new cars. I love looks and the history of the Starship and think the Avanti is a lame copy :-). The airplane is certified to fly at FL 410, even with the extra 3,000 lbs of unnecessary weight mandated by the FAA. In the early 1980s one of the most talked about bits of aviation magic looming on the horizon was composite construction. On the other hand, it probably can’t fly at a high angle of attack or use large high lift devices because the “stalling canard” control arrangement. And I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world to have been able to make a career of doing what I love.” Mac has been a pilot for more than 45 years, an aviation writer for more than 40 and has been lucky enough to get to fly just about every type of personal and business airplane in production from the 1970s onward. 70. Needless to say, Boeing is now making 787’s with composite fuselages. Your email address will not be published. ), Your email address will not be published. The turboprop-powered Italian Piaggio P.180 Avanti had a configuration somewhat similar to the Starship (it incorporated a canard as well as a conventional tailplane) and comparable capacity, but was faster. Yes Beechcraft embarked on a revolutionary change in design, manufacturing, and certification. The Parts List and Notes List for the design drawings were also all released electronically. The Starship with her flexible wing gave an incredibly smooth ride, all passengers loved it. One of the many reasons why despite a globe with endless water runways, we do not have an adequate range of such types available. The P.180 design was tested in wind tunnels in Italy and the U.S. in 1980 and 1981. Without trying something new, how would we advance the state of the art? A lot of the blame on the weight gain goes to the FAA in insisting on additional safety margins in the construction. Robert Scherer – Owner/Pilot, Starship NC-51. I used the Starship as my design final project back when drafting was still part of Aero Engineering curriculum. But to have enough lift at low speeds for adequate pitch control with wing flaps extended, the Starship forward wing had to be too big to not stall at higher airspeeds. What I remember from those prototype flights was the frisky flying qualities. That was a deal breaker for me. Critic of all successful aerospace engineers? See more ideas about Starship, Aircraft, Aviation. What do you think of this plane? The turboprop-powered Piper Cheyenne was also faster than the Starship. Great explanation, Mark. When an aviation decision maker goes looking for great leaps forward there is always somebody with an unproven idea ready to fulfill their dreams. When people ask Mac McClellan what he does for a living, he replies, “I fly airplanes and write about them. The fuselage is tapering, the wing is tapering and the engine nacelle is tapering away. Sorry a Starship – BEST)” He said it was a common joke. We owe it to the newer aviators who look to you seasoned aviators for wisdom and mentoring – not catfighting among yourselves. It is a cool looking plane. I own a Piaggio P-180 which resembles the Starship. Even so, the Starship is still superior to the King Air it was meant to replace, even with her flaws. OK, unfortunately this video is out of date and there are no longer 53 of these beautiful planes flying. Too bad the owner/operator Bob Scherer is estranged from his two brothers, sued his own mother over money and refuses to marry the mother of his only child. Wing sweep looks fast, and does reduce drag above critical Mach that is usually faster than Mach .70, but at turboprop speeds sweep adds headaches and penalties with no benefits. I could name, but won’t, several instances were bonded structure in both fixed wing and helicopters didn’t live up to test results when the aircraft went into actual production. Wondering which one of you Starship owners is buzzing over my house??? It was like watching a spaceship. When Beech flew that thing at the NBAA convention it made it seem like the Starship was just weeks away, when in fact, it hadn’t been really fully defined, much less well on the way to production. According to Piaggio, the Avanti II is 40 percent more efficient than any comparably sized jet and, with the same Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-66 engines as the Beechcraft … Burt screwed up, plain and simple. Be advised however, that flying-boat hulls are not ‘as easy’ as too many aircraft-designers have apparently assumed across the last 115 years. Voyager and SpaceShipOne accomplishments were 32 and 14 years ago and it is telling that he alone in the journalist community has been mute as those programs made their place in history. And the only way to initiate a reasonable roll rate is to stomp the rudder hard as you turn the wheel. Fuel burn is about half the turbofan competition. But, to continue with the airplane of the future theme, the Starship designers opted for an EFIS display of every individual cockpit instrument. Proud to have flown several of the 50 production models. A testament to the integrity of the organization. The first production model did not fly until six years later, 1989. Browse a wide selection of new and used Aircraft near you at Controller.com. Anytime you have a pusher configuration, the Prop will pass through two different masses of moving air. 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). I enjoy it immensely and I learn something valuable to my flying career. Burt’s “Eze” homebuilt designs were popular, looked fast, and were. With ‘outsider novices’ e.g. You might find that while short on initial design and performance expectations, the Starship 30 years later has allot to offer in terms of performance, reliability, safety standard, IFR/IMC capability etc. Descubre (y guarda) tus propios Pines en Pinterest. I was amused. You’re right, Dee. One of the main changes resulting from flight testing the proof-of-concept was a variable geometry canard wing. I would still like to fly both a Starship and one of my all time favorites, a King Air. Linden was fresh from the Lear Fan, if you remember that. First Beechcraft hired Scaled Composites to build an 85% scale version to prove the concept. Even the afore-mentioned aerodynamic complexities might have plausible answers for today, to at least reduce some of the geometrically-inevitable challenges. A lovely aircraft does not need to be an efficient one, nor the vice versa, but often looks go with good handling. First of all, the differing feelings related to the Starship are normal. The low noise levels and lack of vibration outshine the King Air by a wide margin. Appropriate that I was reading this story in Air Facts when I received the news……. He holds several business jet type ratings and has logged more than 10,000 hours. 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