Not often I hear a propeller plane in my neck of the woods. But one was (or) is buzzing around the airbase.
Sort of a business jet size, but perhaps longer as in a regional airliner. High T-tail. Two engine pods mounted in the rear, perhaps rear-facing propellers. The wing looked well-back on the fuselage. I swear both the leading and trailing edge seemed to taper in, as if they would have made a point if the wing had been longer.
Any ideas?
Rear twin engine pusher with T tail.
Yes, that is it. Look how far back that wing is. Thank you.
I imagine two engines aft move the center of gravity accordingly.
You left out the “noisy as hell” part. 
They say the cabin is rather quiet. It does make a distinctive, attention-getting sound on the ground.
The specs say .7 mach max. That’s 537MPH, but the cruising speed looks more like 350MPH. Both are pretty impressive for a prop plane, no?
It also has canards. Small wings on the nose.
I saw that too. While I don’t particularly like the ‘looks’, of the plane, that is impressive (at least to me. Mach .7? sheese.)
Also says it’s rated to be flown by just one person. No co-pilot needed.
There’s also the Beechcraft Starship with that wing configuration.
Yes, that style of plane is the canard design. Most planes have the main wing farther forward, and in normal flight, the little wing on the tail actually pushes down instead of up. This makes for nice stability, since if the plane dips down a little and starts speeding up as a result, the increased speed increases the lift of the main wing and how much down force the tail makes, thus tending to level it out again. But at low speeds, when the main wing stalls, the plane loses all lift and drops.
With the canard design, the little wing in front also provides lift, and is made so that it stalls before (at higher speeds than) the main wing does, so when you start to get into a stall, the front lift goes away and the nose dips, giving you more airspeed, but the main wing never stalls.
Huh. Not a pilot. Makes sense.
I love the SDMB.
A couple of nitpicks to a good explanation:
Wings stall due to exceeding some critical angle of attack, not due directly to low airspeed. To be sure, one very common way that happens is to attempt level flight at too low an airspeed.
When a wing stalls, it doesn’t lose all lift - it basically loses the component contributed by the upper surface, which is roughly 70%.
Xema’s nitpicks are correct.
However, when you’re in a plane that stalls, it feels like it loses all lift. You just start dropping and hope you have enough altitude that the speed you build up gets you flying again before hitting the ground.