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Ideas for an unusual aircraft ID?
Today, an aircraft went over that reminded me about a post of a couple days
ago, when a poster talked about the awful noise a Beech Starship made, as it went over. I had a remarkably similar experience with my sighting today. I heard this plane coming straight at me at around 3,000 feet and was making a loud high pitched howl, (really, really loud) unlike I have ever heard from a turbine prop job. As it got close, I could see that it was a pusher twin canard with a T-tail, also. I think it was a T, but it might not have been. The main wing was almost midway along the length of the fuselage, and had absolutely no sweep. I couldn't tell much more about it since it was as high as it was, and I couldn't get a profile view because it was directly overhead. As it was departing the howl got much more quiet. Any ideas? It wasn't a Starship for sure, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't an Piagio Avanti, because I thought the wing was more forward than an Avanti, but everything else about the configuration and size was about right. -- Jim in NC |
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Ideas for an unusual aircraft ID?
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Morgans wrote: Any ideas? It wasn't a Starship for sure, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't an Piagio Avanti, because I thought the wing was more forward than an Avanti, but everything else about the configuration and size was about right. The Avanti makes quite a different noise, and is fairly loud from the ground. I don't know of anything else shaped like that, so it was probably an Avanti. http://www.airliners.net/photo/Piagg...nti/1733079/M/ is a decent shot of an Avanti passing overhead. John -- John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/ |
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Ideas for an unusual aircraft ID?
On Jul 2, 5:41*am, "Morgans" wrote:
Today, an aircraft went over that reminded me about a post of a couple days ago, when a poster talked about the awful noise a Beech Starship made, as it went over. I had a remarkably similar experience with my sighting today. I heard this plane coming straight at me at around 3,000 feet and was making a loud high pitched howl, (really, really loud) unlike I have ever heard from a turbine prop job. *As it got close, I could see that it was a pusher twin canard with a T-tail, also. *I think it was a T, but it might not have been. *The main wing was almost midway along the length of the fuselage, and had absolutely no sweep. *I couldn't tell much more about it since it was as high as it was, and I couldn't get a profile view because it was directly overhead. *As it was departing the howl got much more quiet. Any ideas? *It wasn't a Starship for sure, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't an Piagio Avanti, because I thought the wing was more forward than an Avanti, but everything else about the configuration and size was about right. -- Jim in NC Definitely Piaggio Avanti. --- Mark |
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Ideas for an unusual aircraft ID?
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:37:39 -0700 (PDT), Agent Gibbs wrote:
Definitely Piaggio Avanti. I own one at my huge estate. I retired when I was 30. --- Mark aka "Mr. Wonderful" cewl. |
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