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We're taking you on a guided tour of one of the most unusual airplanes ever built, the Beechcraft Starship.
We're taking you on a guided tour of one of the most unusual airplanes ever built, the Beechcraft Starship.
The Beechcraft Starship was the first composite plane ever created, and only 11 were built.
I talked to the current owner of this Starship, serial number NC-50. He told the story of how he came to own it, and some of the things that make the Beechcraft Starship a very unique plane in civil aviation.
The Starship is a Burt Rutan design, which accounts for many of its unique qualities, but also led to some complications, and ultimately the short production life of the plane.
As the first composite-construction plane, the Starship had a number of advantages, but also some issues such as greater weight than comparably-sized aircraft.
The Starship had one of the first all-glass cockpits, with display screens replacing mechanical instruments. Many of the redundant systems are more reminiscent of commercial airliners than a smaller twin-engine plane.
The forward wing is used both to slow the plane on approach, and to make it more stall-proof.
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