Ragtopjohnny
08-07-2010, 10:39 AM
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Beechcraft Starship
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/StarshipLogocopy.jpg
Liveries Preview Pack #1
This is a preview of our Beechraft Starship Liveries to be able to be used as free content provided to registered users of our package. There are 28 here total, 15 more
need to be completed to duplicate the entire Starship fleet that is available photographically.
N514RS, Robert Schere's Starship, N8282S, NC-39, and NC-06, Raytheon's Photo-op Aircraft, N1556S are all ready part of our package for release.
Hope you enjoy the sneak peak, and comments are always welcome for feedback from the readership of these forums, and thrilled that the administration does not mind these types of posts....
I normally fly with ENB Series Plug in, but turned it off so you could enjoy the fullness of the Starship liveries.
Did you know that the Development of the Starship began in 1979 when Beech decided to explore designs for a successor to its King Air line of turboprops that would fly faster and carry more passengers. The design was originated by Beechcraft in January 1980 as Preliminary Design 330 (PD 330). On August 25, 1982 Beech contracted with Scaled Composites to refine the design and build an 85% scale proof-of-concept (POC) aircraft. One of the significant changes made to the design by Scaled Composites was the addition of variable geometry to the canard. The POC aircraft first flew in August 1983. This aircraft had no pressurization system, no certified avionics, and a different airframe design and material specifications than the planned production Model 2000. Only one POC was built and it has since been scrapped.
Beech built three airworthy full-scale prototypes. NC-1 was used for aerodynamic testing and was the only Starship equipped with conventional electro-mechanical avionics. NC-2 was used for avionics and systems testing and NC-3 was used for flight management system and powerplant testing. NC-1 first flew on February 15, 1986. Prototypes were produced even as development work was continuing — a system demanded by the use of composite materials, as the tooling required is very expensive and has to be built for production use from the outset. The program was delayed several times, at first due to underestimating the development complexity involved and later to overcome technical difficulties concerning the stall-warning system.
By the end of development, the Starship had grown larger in cabin volume than the King Air 350 while having the same gross ramp weight of 15,010 lb (6,808 kg). Starship development cost $300 million.[citation needed] The first production Starship flew on April 25, 1989.
First, the Virtual Flight Deck and Cabin:
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Model%20Photos/BeechcraftStarship2000V00CBN0090.jpg
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Model%20Photos/BeechcraftStarship2000V00CBN0060.jpg
NC-51, Robert Scherer, our pilot/owner conultant's Starship
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot011-2.jpg
NC-04, N2000S, This Starship was owned by a Annheuser - Busch Distributor
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot021.jpg
The Starship is noteworthy for its carbon fiber composite airframe, canard design, lack of centrally located vertical tail, and pusher engine/propeller configuration.
Carbon fiber composite was used to varying degrees on military aircraft, but at the time the Starship was certified no civilian aircraft certified by the US Federal Aviation Administration had ever used it so extensively. Beech chose carbon fiber composite for its durability and high strength-to-weight ratio. According to Beech the Starship weighs less than it would have if it were built from aluminum. Nonetheless, the empty weight of production aircraft exceeded the target by several thousand pounds.
Beech studied several configurations before settling on a canard configuration in early 1980. As configured, the Starship is difficult to stall - the forward surface stalls before the main lifting surface, which allows the nose to drop and more-normal flight to resume.
A traditionally located vertical tail would have transmitted propeller noise into the airframe. In its place, directional stability and control is provided by rudders mounted in the winglets (Beechcraft called them tipsails) at the tips of the wings.
Mounting the engines so that the propellers are facing rearward, pushing rather than pulling the aircraft, has the potential of a quieter ride since the propellers are further from the passengers and because vortices from the propeller tips do not strike the fuselage sides. However, the propellers are operating in a turbulent airflow in the pusher configuration (due to airflow past the wings moving aft in vortex sheets) and high-velocity exhaust gasses are discharged directly into the props, thus the resulting external propeller noise is more choppy and raucous than otherwise.
Flight instrumentation for the Starship included a 14-tube Proline 4 AMS-850 "glass cockpit" supplied by Rockwell Collins, the first application of an all-glass cockpit in a business aircraft.
NC-08 N1556S, Raytheon's Photo-op Starship
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot020.jpg
NC-09 N999RF
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot023.jpg
NC-11 N1569S
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot015.jpg
Beech sold only eleven Starships in the three years following its certification. Beech attributed the slow sales to the economic slowdown in the late-1980s, the novelty of the Starship, and the tax on luxury items that was in effect in the United States at the time. In an effort to stimulate demand, Beech began offering two-year leases on new Starships in 1991
NC-21 N206RF
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot025.jpg
NC-23 N39TU, IMAGEAMERICA AVIATION, LLC
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot027-1.jpg
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Beechcraft Starship
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/StarshipLogocopy.jpg
Liveries Preview Pack #1
This is a preview of our Beechraft Starship Liveries to be able to be used as free content provided to registered users of our package. There are 28 here total, 15 more
need to be completed to duplicate the entire Starship fleet that is available photographically.
N514RS, Robert Schere's Starship, N8282S, NC-39, and NC-06, Raytheon's Photo-op Aircraft, N1556S are all ready part of our package for release.
Hope you enjoy the sneak peak, and comments are always welcome for feedback from the readership of these forums, and thrilled that the administration does not mind these types of posts....
I normally fly with ENB Series Plug in, but turned it off so you could enjoy the fullness of the Starship liveries.
Did you know that the Development of the Starship began in 1979 when Beech decided to explore designs for a successor to its King Air line of turboprops that would fly faster and carry more passengers. The design was originated by Beechcraft in January 1980 as Preliminary Design 330 (PD 330). On August 25, 1982 Beech contracted with Scaled Composites to refine the design and build an 85% scale proof-of-concept (POC) aircraft. One of the significant changes made to the design by Scaled Composites was the addition of variable geometry to the canard. The POC aircraft first flew in August 1983. This aircraft had no pressurization system, no certified avionics, and a different airframe design and material specifications than the planned production Model 2000. Only one POC was built and it has since been scrapped.
Beech built three airworthy full-scale prototypes. NC-1 was used for aerodynamic testing and was the only Starship equipped with conventional electro-mechanical avionics. NC-2 was used for avionics and systems testing and NC-3 was used for flight management system and powerplant testing. NC-1 first flew on February 15, 1986. Prototypes were produced even as development work was continuing — a system demanded by the use of composite materials, as the tooling required is very expensive and has to be built for production use from the outset. The program was delayed several times, at first due to underestimating the development complexity involved and later to overcome technical difficulties concerning the stall-warning system.
By the end of development, the Starship had grown larger in cabin volume than the King Air 350 while having the same gross ramp weight of 15,010 lb (6,808 kg). Starship development cost $300 million.[citation needed] The first production Starship flew on April 25, 1989.
First, the Virtual Flight Deck and Cabin:
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Model%20Photos/BeechcraftStarship2000V00CBN0090.jpg
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Model%20Photos/BeechcraftStarship2000V00CBN0060.jpg
NC-51, Robert Scherer, our pilot/owner conultant's Starship
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot011-2.jpg
NC-04, N2000S, This Starship was owned by a Annheuser - Busch Distributor
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot021.jpg
The Starship is noteworthy for its carbon fiber composite airframe, canard design, lack of centrally located vertical tail, and pusher engine/propeller configuration.
Carbon fiber composite was used to varying degrees on military aircraft, but at the time the Starship was certified no civilian aircraft certified by the US Federal Aviation Administration had ever used it so extensively. Beech chose carbon fiber composite for its durability and high strength-to-weight ratio. According to Beech the Starship weighs less than it would have if it were built from aluminum. Nonetheless, the empty weight of production aircraft exceeded the target by several thousand pounds.
Beech studied several configurations before settling on a canard configuration in early 1980. As configured, the Starship is difficult to stall - the forward surface stalls before the main lifting surface, which allows the nose to drop and more-normal flight to resume.
A traditionally located vertical tail would have transmitted propeller noise into the airframe. In its place, directional stability and control is provided by rudders mounted in the winglets (Beechcraft called them tipsails) at the tips of the wings.
Mounting the engines so that the propellers are facing rearward, pushing rather than pulling the aircraft, has the potential of a quieter ride since the propellers are further from the passengers and because vortices from the propeller tips do not strike the fuselage sides. However, the propellers are operating in a turbulent airflow in the pusher configuration (due to airflow past the wings moving aft in vortex sheets) and high-velocity exhaust gasses are discharged directly into the props, thus the resulting external propeller noise is more choppy and raucous than otherwise.
Flight instrumentation for the Starship included a 14-tube Proline 4 AMS-850 "glass cockpit" supplied by Rockwell Collins, the first application of an all-glass cockpit in a business aircraft.
NC-08 N1556S, Raytheon's Photo-op Starship
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot020.jpg
NC-09 N999RF
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot023.jpg
NC-11 N1569S
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot015.jpg
Beech sold only eleven Starships in the three years following its certification. Beech attributed the slow sales to the economic slowdown in the late-1980s, the novelty of the Starship, and the tax on luxury items that was in effect in the United States at the time. In an effort to stimulate demand, Beech began offering two-year leases on new Starships in 1991
NC-21 N206RF
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot025.jpg
NC-23 N39TU, IMAGEAMERICA AVIATION, LLC
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/ragtopjohnny/Starship%20Production%20Stills/Scrshot027-1.jpg
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