Ideas for an unusual aircraft ID?

[Morgans[_2_]]

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

[John Clear]

In article >,
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/Piaggio-P-180-Avanti/1733079/M/ is a
decent shot of an Avanti passing overhead.

John
--
John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/

[Agent Gibbs]

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

[Anthony Atkielski]

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"

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