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Description

The Beechcraft Starship is a twin-turboprop six- to eight-passenger pressurized business aircraft produced by Beech Aircraft Corporation.

The Starship is noteworthy for its carbon fiber composite airframe, canard design, lack of centrally located vertical tail, and pusher engine/propeller configuration.
Thanks to the forward canards, the Starship is very difficult to stall, as the canards lose lift before the main wings do, causing the nose to drop. 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 on the winglets. Because of this addition, Beechcraft called the winglets tipsails.

The Starship has a variable-sweep canard surface. The sweep is varied in flight by swinging the foreplanes forward to increase the effectiveness and so trim out the nose-down pitching effect caused by the wing flaps when deployed.

This KSP recreation of the Starship was designed with both looks and functionality in mind, and, has decent handling at moderate speeds.

Much like the real deal, the Starship includes actuated foreplanes that swing forward for increased effectiveness of the flaps (AG3). The Starship also comes with a ramp door to load Kerbals aboard from the ground, in case they are too short to reach the forward hatch.

And in the event you are late for a business meeting somewhere else on Kerbin, this Starship recreation isn’t just fast, it’s quick, meaning it can reach an ample takeoff speed and optimum cruising speed in a short amount of time, AND has a very short stopping distance with the help of thrust reversers (AG2), and the tipsail rudders double as airbrakes (AG4). While still subsonic, this Starship recreation hauls some serious ass for a propeller-driven plane.

Warranty void if the name confuses someone into flying the plane into space. Trust me, you’re not gonna make it there, much less into orbit.

WARNING: POOR HANDLING AT LOW SPEEDS. LAND WITH CAUTION.

WARNING: CONTAINS A VENTRAL FIN. USE CAUTION WHEN TAKING OFF OR PERFORMING A BELLY LANDING.

A mod aircraft called Beechcraft Starship. Built with 80 of the finest parts, its root part is citationcockpit.

Built in the SPH in KSP version 1.5.1.

Details

• Type: SPH
• Class: aircraft
• Part Count: 80
• Mods: 5
• KSP: 1.5.1

Mods

• Airplane Plus
• Infernal Robotics - Next
• Squad (stock)
• TweakScale - Rescale Everything!
• USI Asteroid Recycling Technologies