MORE random pics......

[porsche930dude]

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by rick-l

All to be destroyed

Why? Does one need a home?

I used to fly one of these back in better days:

[onlycafe]

[Racerbvd]

[Porsche virgin]

[Scooter]

[teenerted1]

Originally Posted by Porsche virgin

where when how?

[Porsche virgin]

Originally Posted by teenerted1

where when how?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/454109-pelican-parts-grille-badges.html#post4450807

They are already sold out. There were only 100 in the first batch.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Porsche virgin

I've shared tracks with both Vipers and miatas.
Unless it's in a parking lot, experience and driving skill will not keep a miata in front of a viper driven by even a novice. The vipers are probably getting ready to lap him, again.

[daepp]

Originally Posted by rick-l

All to be destroyed

Beechcraft performed some cost study IIRC and concluded that the liability from them exceeded whatever they would ever make on them. Something like that.

I believe most of them were leased from Beech. However, I think a few remain airworthy and away from the teeth of the shredder!

[Palum6o]

[KevinP73]

Originally Posted by daepp

Beechcraft performed some cost study IIRC and concluded that the liability from them exceeded whatever they would ever make on them. Something like that.

I believe most of them were leased from Beech. However, I think a few remain airworthy and away from the teeth of the shredder!

The Beechcraft Starship is one of the most technologically advanced aircraft of its type. Designed in 1982 by well known aircraft designer Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites the Starship is the first all composite pressurized business class aircraft. The design featured a variable sweep forward wing or “canard,” an all glass cockpit, in which traditional instruments are replaced by computer screens, and two rear mounted pusher turboprop engines. Rutan’s company built an 85% scale proof of concept aircraft while Beechcraft began design of the full-scale prototype. While Rutan’s concept plane flew in 1983 the full size aircraft suffered from production delays, design changes and other problems that pushed its first flight to March 1986. Production of the Starship began in 1988 and a total of 53 were built by 1995 when production was halted. Despite its revolutionary design the Starship was a commercial failure. Many of the aircraft never found buyers and were leased out by Raytheon, which had bought out Beechcraft during the design of the Starship. By 2004, only two or three Starships continue to fly, the rest having been consigned to the scrap yard or museums.

[Racerbvd]

My Dad, Supe will know what NMU is





My Grandfather.

[Oh Haha]

Those old pics you have been posting are way cool, Byron. It sounds/looks like your Grandad and Dad were characters.











The smiley face aint too bad, either.

[austin552]

[slodave]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

My Dad, Supe will know what NMU is

National Maritime Union - It's written on the chalkboard

[onlycafe]

[911Rob]

Titled: "Patience & Wisdom"

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

Those old pics you have been posting are way cool, Byron. It sounds/looks like your Grandad and Dad were characters.

Yes they were, unfortunately, I didn't know my Grandfather very well, he lived in W Texas,us in FL, so a few weeks at a time was all I ever had, and he died while I was in my teens. Going through these old pix really make me realize what I missed loosing him at my young age. He traveled & did much more than I knew, kind of like that movie Old Lions, or what ever it was called. I can see that I am alot like him, there are a fair amount of pictures of ladies he dated before he met my Grandmother, colecting junk, the still, goees on. More than I ever knew until going through pictures,business cards & newspaper clippings. By scanning these can share with my sister & nephew.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by KevinP73

By 2004, only two or three Starships continue to fly, the rest having been consigned to the scrap yard or museums.

Anyone know where these are stored?

As a matter of fact I work at a museum and I know the curator of the air and space building.