I Thought for a Moment the Starship Was Used in a Movie
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While watching the film "Salt" starring Angelina Jolie the other night I noticed that Jolie and a Russian agent were about to be transported via a business level aircraft of some kind (easily discerned from the cabin appearance).
When the aircraft took off it turned out to be a sleek aircraft with a canard, pusher props and quite noisy. It was only there for a few seconds so I wasn't sure, but I knew there weren't many aircraft with those characteristics. I figured I just saw a Starship.
Googling the movie today and asking about the aircraft the Google AI answered with one of the stupidest responses I'd ever seen, stating that the aircraft was a modified Cessna 182 with a Canard. Come on. I've flown the C182 in the RW and I can guarantee that adding a canard would not make a C182 look anything like a Starship.
Checking one of the AI's sources (Smithsonian Magazine) I came across the following:
Of all the high-end executive transports to choose from -- Gulfstream, Lear, Cessna Citation, Beech Super King Air, Sikorsky, Eurocopter -- Sony opted for the Piaggio Avanti for its summer blockbuster, "Salt," starring Angelina Jolie as a battering ram.
The catfish-shaped turboprop makes a cameo appearance, much to the delight of Avantair, the exclusive fractional-ownership provider for the Avanti that owns N188SL. At the last second, Sony changed the tail number to N182SL, which belongs to a 1972 Cessna 182.
Now that makes more sense - shows how AI can screw up...
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There’s a site called the Internet Movie Plane Database, which you can check out, for these kinds of questions.