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The PA-28-161 Warrior II flying in the livery of the Singapore Youth Flying Club. At the time of the Cherokee's introduction, Piper's primary single-engined, all-metal aircraft was the Piper PA-24 Comanche, a larger, faster aircraft with retractable landing gear and a constant-speed propeller.
Piper Aircraft Company factory in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania during the 1930s, with the Piper Cub logo superimposed at the top Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub.Built 1958. Piper PA-28-161 Warrior II Piper PA-34 Seneca-200T Piper PA-31 Navajo airframe used for crash testing by NASA after a 1972 flood inundated Piper's factory Early-production PA-31 Navajo Piper PA-32-RT-300T Turbo Lance II Piper PA-44 ...
Average fuel burn of new aircraft fell 45% from 1968 to 2014, a compounded annual reduction 1.3% with variable reduction rate. [ 48 ] Concorde , a supersonic transport , managed about 17 passenger-miles to the Imperial gallon, which is 16.7 L/100 km per passenger; similar to a business jet, but much worse than a subsonic turbofan aircraft.
Jet engines perform in two basic ways, the combined effect of which determines how much waste they produce as a byproduct of burning fuel to do thrust work on an aircraft. [5] First is an energy conversion as burning fuel speeds up the air passing through which at the same time produces waste heat from component losses (thermal efficiency ...
The 260 had an empty weight around 1,700 lb (770 kg) and a maximum gross weight of 2,900 lb (1,300 kg). It had four seats, and a 90-US-gallon (340 L)-capacity auxiliary fuel system was available as an option. Cruise speed was advertised as 142–161 kn (263–298 km/h; 163–185 mph) with fuel burn of 10 to 14 gal/h (38 to 53 L/h).
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The present article gives example specifications for a 1964 PA-28-140. Wow, that's old. There aren't too many of those still flying. Somebody should replace these with specs from something newer. Fogden 14:00, 10 April 2020 (UTC) Actually there are lots from that model year still flying.