Nick Elzinga
| Username: | Starship | ||
| Real Name: | Nick Elzinga | ||
| E-mail: | Contact | ||
| Gender: | Male | ||
| Age: | 36-45 | ||
| Country: |  South Africa | ||
| Location: | Durbanville, Western Cape | ||
| Occupation: | Small business owner - trading in access control equipment | ||
| Interests: | Aviation - special interest - aircraft with T-tails, classic cars - especially Chev Corvairs. building computers, collecting aviation art and celebrity photos, internet, chatting on my Skype phone or messaging on ICQ: # 68096258 (I'm mostly in invisible mode, so message anyway) - MSN IM: starship@worldonline.co.za | ||
| Homepage: | http://www.rps3.com/Pages/Starship.htm | ||
| Other info: |  My user-name comes from the Beechcraft Starship 2000A executive twin turboprop, a photo of which appears above. Sadly, Beech Raytheon have decided to withdraw the Starships from service due to the prohibitive costs of maintaining a relatively small fleet. Starships originally sold for $5 million with a free maintenance plan. The "free" maintenance eventually cost Beech Raytheon so much money that the bean counters decided it was a case of cutting the Comapny's losses and buying back the fleet and disposing of them. Apart from 3 prototypes, 41 are Raytheon owned, 5 are in private hands and 4 are in museums. The bulk of the Starship fleet have been moved to Evergreen Aviation near Tucson, Arizona for decommissioning. Some have been chopped up, while others await their fate. A photo of a man taking an axe to a Starship is not a pretty sight. What an absolute waste! I also have a passion for unusual cars and have a particular interest in American classics from the sixties. I own an Audi 500 SEL 2.8 V6, a Ford Falcon EL Futura, a Ford Falcon XH II Outback Ute, a Citroën CX 25 GTi Turbo 2, two Chev Corvairs, an NSU Ro80, three VW 412LE Variants and a Citroën GS Club S/W. I have flown on the following aircraft: DC-3, DC-4, DC-9, Boeing 707, 727-1/200, 737-2/300, 747-SP/400, 757-200, BAC 1-11, Airbus A300, A320, MD-82, Junkers JU-52, Aerospatiale AS350B Ecureuil, Bell Longranger, Cessna C150, Jabiru J160, Beechcraft Bonanza V35B. I make a point of flying T-tails, where possible. visitors since December 1, 2001   | ||
| Joined Airliners.net: | 13 years 5 months 28 days ago (November 23, 1999) | ||
| Last post: | 3 years 17 days ago (May 4, 2010) | ||
| Signature: | Behind every "no" is a "yes" | ||
| Respect Rating: | 16 | ||
| Total Nr of posts: |
1098 View posts by member Starship in forum:
| ||
| Respected Members: What's this? |
AF Cabin Crew, Amir, Derico, FACT, hmmmm..., hustler, Jet-A gasguy, LH423, Matt D, MEA-707, tbar220, teahan, thai747, woodsboy | ||
| Respected By: | Amir, FACT, hustler, LH423, MD-90, MEA-707, RNOcommctr, tbar220, teahan, thai747, TP343, ZS-SAZ | Photo Albums: What's this? |
|
| Starship's Photos: | No photos here yet. |
Profile viewed 11,750 times
