Beechcraft Starship! and Rutan Aircraft Showcase - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024 

Burt was the designer, Dick the skilled pilot.

Same way they take care of a WW2 era aircraft. Or really any of the ancient still flying GA aircraft lol. Carefully and expensively

I thought all the starships had been destroyed. Glad there's at least one still airworthy.

There is still 6 airworthy I believe

Depending on reference source, there's up to Nine currently flying. Parent company Raytheon sold the entire stock of spare parts to one of the owners, and many of the parts used for engines, landing gear, control systems and avionics are common to other aircraft, or variations of what is used in other craft, so the majority of parts other then airframe-specific are not dificult to obtain. The nature of Carbon Composites though, over time cracking and aging, will lead to a requirement to replace signifigant components, though manufacture of composite parts is now much more common, and should fall in to the same catagory as maintaining any classic aircraft. It'll be less expensive then keeping FiFi in the air.

I remember first hearing and than seeing one of these fly over the Bronx in the mid 90’s. Very cool!

There are a total of 6 airworthy examples from what I last read. I actually live down the street from the facility in Addison, Texas where they maintain two of them (NC-33 and NC-50).

It wasn’t experimental and it wasn’t a one off.

@@NeroontheGoon Was wondering how long it would take for a moron to read those sentences wrong.

Nor was it ahead of it's time..The Piaggio P 180 was ahead of it's time!

@@alanmorrison3598 The Starship was so far ahead of everyone else the FAA just had to step in to fuck it up.

The flop occurred when Beechcraft marketed the airplane to include ALL maintenance covered by Beech. The problem arose with the company that carried out the maintenance, they were overcharging Beech to the point where it was not economically reasonable to support the aircraft so Beech recalled all of the leases offering operators KingAirs. Those owning the few refused to sell them back.

Check out the German BV-141 from WW2 .

@@chrisbisho9785 WOW - just as weird back then. But then, the outrigger's been around even longer, at least on the water.

The exhaust is blown through the prop and creates some unique turbulence.

@@jackvandermeer2392 Ah, okay. Thanks!

Rutan Boomerang en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Boomerang

That was the Shinden. It was an actual Japanese design from the end of WW2. Ese fue el "Shinden." Era un diseño japonés real de finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

@@CorrieBergeron muchas gracias por la información es un avión diferente a los demás por sus alas al igual que los del vídeo muy llamativo de nuevo gracias por leer el mensaje saludos desde México

To the unknowing or mentally defective it just might.

Arrr, Nope. They didn't 'get returned'. Beechcraft cancelled the leases to bring back the ones they had control over. The economics of the period, including a luxury tax, and the then higher price of the Carbon Composite parts, had more effect on sales then any other factors. None of the aircraft that had been bought (not leased) were returned by the customers, Beechcraft created a program to incentivise the customers to update to a newer product, just the same as the car industry does to get you to trade-in your old for new. They are not 'slow' or have 'terrible performance', what they were, was expensive for Beechcraft to build.

@@PiDsPagePrototypes You may want to check your facts. I remember when they were giving rides away at the airport where they did the flight tests and no one wanted to go! When Cutter used them for charter flights no one wanted them a second time! Beech screwed the pooch on this one!

@@jhaedtler The one thing Beech did wrong, was not build it with a longer body to have more rows of seats.

@@PiDsPagePrototypes So want the slowest banana flying?