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Re: Beechcraft Starship
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lugnet.town
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Mon, 26 Jul 2004 04:12:14 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Chris Paton wrote:
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In lugnet.town, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
Your comments have been helpful, thanks.
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You’re quite welcome. I hope you choose to post some post modification pics
too... it will be interesting to see if all the changes actually helped or if
some detracted... :-)
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I think Scaled Composites and both Dick and Burt Rutan’s contribution to
aviation is very interesting and inspiring. The Starship story (
Beechcraft/Raytheon) is a little sad as I don’t think this aircraft will fly
all that much anymore.
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Raytheon seems to be actively trying to get the aircraft out of service by
buying out the owners so ya, probably not, and I find it sad too. It sort of
reminds me of what Porsche is trying to do with the Porsche/Mooney... they want
those engines out of circulation so they’re re-engining all of them. But then,
the original purchase contract in that case said that they could do that.
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| (...) I agree. Although I do like the overall delta-like shape that you see from underneath, something very distinctive about the Starship. I have now "installed" seats, and just like the SYSTEM planes, there ain't a lot of room in there! (...) I (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jul-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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