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Unusual Attitudes: A Wings Thing
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Piper PA-28RT Turbo Arrow
[IMGCAP(1)]<P>Saddled with a battered image, handicapped by a powerplant with a nasty reputation, the Turbo Arrow should be approached with caution. But various upgrades and a kind of Darwin effect may have weeded out many of the real clunkers by now.<P>When Piper hung a 200-HP turbocharged Continental onto the basic Arrow airframe in 1977, the combination looked like one made in heaven, rather than Vero Beach. <P>It was a perfect match: the worlds premier economy retractable single and a K-Mart kind of powerplant that promised high-tech performance at low-tech prices.<P>Alas, the engine was finicky, tricky to operate and prone to self destruction. Things got so bad that the National Tr...
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