Your doing an awesome job, Brian!!!

58Skylane wrote:Your doing an awesome job, Brian!!!

Just wait until you see the Pacer he's gonna build me!!!

Tadpole wrote:

58Skylane wrote:Your doing an awesome job, Brian!!!

Just wait until you see the Pacer he's gonna build me!!!

Yeah...well wait till you see the hangar he is gonna build me; carousel and all.

I've flown Art Mattson's Cherokee (Pipermods) in the Denver-Oshkosh air race 903 statute miles non-stop from Jeffco to Appleton. Standing start, flying finish. Took a bit over 7 hours against an average 3 knot headwind at an altitude a little over 14000 feet. Average groundspeed 127 mph; average airspeed 130 mph. Landed with an hour of fuel reserve remaining in the stock 50 gallon tanks, which was our goal.

Art keeps his two Cherokees at his grass strip, which he recently extended from 800 feet long to 900 feet, so he has pretty good short field capability. His mods do pretty much what he says they will.
JimC

That's nice to hear as I was looking at his claims and thinking that if they did as they say it would be worth considering. But I have other things that need doing first. My 160 horse is already the cheapest 4 placer on fuel that I have seen.

Cool Cherokee of floats.

Eric, the Cubs use a USA35BMod airfoil.
The Cherokees use a 65sub2-415 airfoil.
No similarity, though the Cherokees have a more docile stall.
nmflyguy, I've flown the AMRD 150 hp PA28-140 testbed in the Denver-Oshkosh Air Race. Standing start out of JeffCo, flying finish at 500 AGL at Appleton. We did 903 statute miles straightline non-stop in 7 hours 5 minutes, landing with an hour of fuel remaining in the stock 50 gallon tanks. We were going for endurance, not speed. Averaged 130 mph against an average 3 kt headwind. That average speed included the climb from JeffCo up to our cruising altitude of 14,600 feet. We crossed the finish line at 500 feet AGL and 180 mph. Average fuel burn was 6 gph.

Even though Art reflexed his ailerons and flaps up 2°, the plane also has exceptionally good STOL performance, but not a lot of brush clearance at the wingtips. Stall is docile. Contrary to one of the posts here, the Cherokees have considerable washout.

Wow, the thread! She rises from the dead!

I know, old thread,...... but , will 8.5 x 6.00 tires fit a standard Cherokee pa28? mains.....
thanks