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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 ...
An oil tanker's inert gas system is one of the most important parts of its design. [18] Fuel oil itself is very difficult to ignite, however its hydrocarbon vapors are explosive when mixed with air in certain concentrations. [19] The purpose of the system is to create an atmosphere inside tanks in which the hydrocarbon oil vapors cannot burn. [18]
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).
The Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche was designed as a twin-engined variant of the Piper PA-24 Comanche.A complex light twin, with retractable landing gear, seating 4 (in original models) to 6 (in later models), and cruise speeds ranging from 160–210 mph on twin 160 horsepower engines, it competed with the more-powerful Cessna 310 and Beech Baron, and later with Piper's other light twins.
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Stall strips were applied to the leading edge.. According to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Air Safety Foundation, which published a Safety Highlight report on the Piper Tomahawk, the Piper Tomahawk has a one-third lower accident rate per flying hour than the comparable Cessna 150/152 series of two-place benchmark trainers.
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