Piper Wallpapers

Piper Wallpapers

<b>Aircraft Piper PA-38-112; photo wallpapers:</b>  Category Airliner; Constr. # LJ-215; Section Spartan School of Aeronautics; Location & Date: Tulsa, OK [Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Airport], USA (RVS / KRVS) July 18, 2002
The Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk is a two-seat, fixed tricycle gear general aviation airplane, originally designed for flight training, touring and personal use. The Tomahawk was Piper's
attempt at creating an affordable two-place trainer. Before designing
the aircraft Piper widely surveyed flight instructors for their input
into the design. Instructors requested a more spinnable aircraft for training purposes, since other two-place trainers such as the Cessna 150 or Cessna 152 were designed to spontaneously fly out of a spin. The Tomahawk's NASA^[1]
GA(W)-1 Whitcomb airfoil addresses this requirement by requiring
specific pilot input in recovering from spins, thus allowing pilots to
develop proficiency in dealing with spin recovery. Another characteristic of the Piper Tomahawk that favours its
suitability as a primary trainer is that the flight control forces
mimic those of a much heavier aircraft. As a result, student pilots
that learn to fly in a Tomahawk transition much more successfully to
larger aircraft, hence the popularity of the Tomahawk with U.S. Air
Force flying clubs.

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