Poll: best looking GA prop plane of all time?

Dan Luke wrote:
Vintage: Beech Staggerwing, the G-model.
http://www.popularaviation.com/PhotoGallery/2773.jpg

Good taste. My pick also.

Mike R. said

Haven't you seen a Piaggio P180? The King Air is ugly and so slow that the
radome should be in the rear so the airplane can avoid being run down
by
thunderstorms.

You must be joking. The Piaggio is so ugly it scares away
thunderstorms. : ) Take a beached whale-looking fuse, then stick the
main wing on the back with the engines pointing the wrong way and tack
on a canard up front as an afterthought. Ugh. Its only redeeming factor
is its speed. I'm not sure if this is a case of form following function
or vice versa...

Longworth wrote:

Aluckyguess wrote:
Lets put your freshly painted cardinal on the field next to a Cirrus any
Cirrus I might add and start asking people what they think looks better. I
bet the Cardinal doesn't get one vote.

I vote for the Cardinal! It just look GOOD!

Best regards,

Jer/ "Flight instruction and mountain flying are my vocation!" Eberhard

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Mike R. said

Haven't you seen a Piaggio P180? The King Air is ugly and so slow that
the
radome should be in the rear so the airplane can avoid being run down
by
thunderstorms.

You must be joking. The Piaggio is so ugly it scares away
thunderstorms. : ) Take a beached whale-looking fuse, then stick the
main wing on the back with the engines pointing the wrong way and tack
on a canard up front as an afterthought. Ugh. Its only redeeming factor
is its speed. I'm not sure if this is a case of form following function
or vice versa..

I guess that you don't like the way Ferraris look either.

Mike
MU-2

I guess that you don't like the way Ferraris look either

What does that have to do with the Piaggio, Mike??

I like the older Ferraris like the 328, 288 GTO, 512BBi, and the 550
Maranello. The newer cars like the Scaglietti don't do much for me

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I guess that you don't like the way Ferraris look either.

Mike
MU-2

Speaking of Ferraris. The 308 was my dream car for years but the other day a
575 (I think) pulled up beside me at the gas pump and while up close it is a
great looking car I noticed when I drove off that from a distance it looks
like any number of Japanese sport coupes.

If I spend that much money on a car I don't want anybody from any distance
thinking it is just another car from Japan.

That said, I laugh and laugh (to myself) every time somebody thinks my Honda
S2000 is a Porsche Boxster.

It has everything to do with it. The Piaggio is to airplanes what Ferrari
is to automobiles, a combination of form and function with some Italian
pizzaz thrown it. The Piaggio will go 100kts faster on the same fuel burn
as a King Air 200 and has a larger cabin.


Mike
MU-2


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I guess that you don't like the way Ferraris look either

What does that have to do with the Piaggio, Mike??

I like the older Ferraris like the 328, 288 GTO, 512BBi, and the 550
Maranello. The newer cars like the Scaglietti don't do much for me

("Mike Rapoport" wrote)
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The Piaggio will go 100kts faster on the same fuel burn as a King Air 200
and has a larger cabin.


....and sounds much cooler when it screams overhead, too.

We had a Piaggio at ANE (Anoka County-Blaine, MN) for a few months last
year.


Montblack

The Piaggio will go 100kts faster on the same fuel burn
as a King Air 200 and has a larger cabin.

The P180 I sat in last year seemed a tad snug. Certainly no larger than
a B200's "squared oval" cross-section cabin IMO. So it's fast and a
great XC machine, no argument there, I just think it's butt-ugly

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The Piaggio will go 100kts faster on the same fuel burn
as a King Air 200 and has a larger cabin.

The P180 I sat in last year seemed a tad snug. Certainly no larger than
a B200's "squared oval" cross-section cabin IMO. So it's fast and a
great XC machine, no argument there, I just think it's butt-ugly


The Piaggio cabin is *hugely* larger than the B200. It is 18" wider and
about (depending on where you measure) 14" taller. The King Air isn't even
remotely close. The B200 fusilage will fit inside the Piaggio's cabin.

As they say in Italy, you don't argue taste, so I accept that you don' t
like the looks. As far as any other comparison goes, the P180 crushes the
King Air.

Mike
MU-2