Byron was thinking about the day he checked out in the 1969 Piper Arrow.. It was transition into the complex single..........
It was a flying club airplane.. he called an instructor he had never met.... when the instructor arrived at the airport he was wearing a bath robe and house slippers and smoking a pipe.........
They took the plane up and the instructor told Byron he was a 'Natural'..... as they went through a series of stalls.....
He wanted to show Byron something special about that airplane... the wing spar ends four feet in from the wing tip he advised... be careful not to over speed the air frame.. as the wing tips have been know to shed...
Oh I see what you mean as they did a stall and let the wing just fall... the airspeed really comes up quick...
That was an early model... with a Hershey bar wing, they had 3 different wings for the Piper Arrow as Byron Recalls...
The Old Boy in the Bathrobe and slippers smoking a pipe... was right.... better mind your P's and Q's in that little jewel..........
It was a fun little airplane... it was kind of like a Cherokee 140 only it had 200 H.P. engine , retractable landing gear... and a constant speed propeller........
Flying with house slippers a bathrobe and a pipe.
Byron.
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