AWSOME Aerostar 601P!!!
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Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
400 Knots! That's, what, 60 knots faster than a Mustang on the same engines?
Pépé le Pilot
Well-Known Member
That's kind of ugly, though...
It just goes to show two things. #1, how much bad assery the Aerostar has, and #2, how much ass hattery the Mustang has. I'm preatty sure (without looking stuff up) that it out paces nearly every other VLJ out thre, save for the Honda Jet.
Edit to add: Woulda been cooler if they had been able to put the turbines on the fuse though.
KSCessnaDriver
Well-Known Member
No no no, keep it the way it is, with the jets. Its like a mid wing, miniature DO328Jet. And if the numbers come up as well as they say they are, the price difference between this and a C510 or Eclipse 500 is huge. Sure, it's a 1.2 million dollar conversion. But you can find 601P's with run-out engines for 150K or so.
Okie_Pilot
Pitts Builder
That's pretty neat. Here's the "Speedstar 850" out of Riverside in Tulsa. Took the twin engines off and hung a Garrett on the front. Builder and pilot's name is Oscar Taylor. Pretty interesting guy to talk to.
Always has been, and probably always will be. Just don't get slow when one engine poops the bed.
Bandit_Driver
Gold Member
Ditto, I also think the mustang has a bigger cabin.
trafficinsight
Well-Known Member
That doesn't look safe.
WacoFan
Bigly
That's pretty neat. Here's the "Speedstar 850" out of Riverside in Tulsa. Took the twin engines off and hung a Garrett on the front. Builder and pilot's name is Oscar Taylor. Pretty interesting guy to talk to.
You can't just throw something this bad ass up there, say that you've talked to the guy and simply leave it at that. Dude, I'm disappointed in you. We need details.
For the record - there are some "modern airplanes" that I'm ok with - Turbine Dukes, Twin Bonanza's, any Aerostar derivative and MU2's.
Wanna buy one?
WacoFan
Bigly
Actually thought of that when I made my KA thread last week. It is sexy and gives me action in the pants.
Ok...WAY out of my league now - but the "wives tale" about piston Dukes was that a) they had some kind of weird material (Magnesium maybe?) that comprised some of their airframe parts - and this was "bad" for some reason and b) piston Dukes were runway hogs.
As with a lot of wives tales, I tend to discount them heavily - but what is the turbine Duke like and what short-comings does it have?
KLB
Well-Known Member
He is looking for an airplane to haul doctors around in!
I don't think it has the cargo capacity he's looking for though.
[On topic] Both of those Aerostars are nice! Are there any specs on the Speedstar?
ASpilot2be
Qbicle seat warmer
Magnesium is not something I would want on an aircraft near an engine. I have seen Ski-Doo have problems with their magnesium crank cases (I think) catching fire. The pictures from those fires are intense.
It's a fun yet unpractical machine depending on the mission. Short-comings would be chief lack of duration and useful load. It's max fuel capacity is 265gals with which you can take pilot + 1 and maybe a golf bag. Burns just under 80 per hour regardless of altitude. The indicated airspeed limits do not change with the conversion so redline is still 197. Good news is you can reach redline practically up to FL280, so true airspeed is what it lives and breathes on and it needs altitude to get there. More good news is you get to FL280 in about 15 mins. Once up there book is 300kts but I would plan closer to 290. Anything above the mid teens your doing >250kts.
You can squeeze 5 + pilot and go about an hour. Ours has a pretty nice avionics suite. Baggage is more than sufficient.
Loss of an engine can't really be described, you have to see it. Once feathered however you can get better than 1500fpm on one motor.
Ours is currently for sale as it's not used by all parties and it's mission in our flight dept. can easily be covered with our Cirrus and Lear 55.
fholbert
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Many if not all aluminum cases have some magnesium in them. Even the older model VW's.
N519AT
Ahh! This is how I change this!
You can consider me a buyer if I win the lottery.