PA-38 Tomahawk US Presidential Fleet Designed during the Cold War

Designed during the Cold War

Unlike its predecessors

but the design had to be greatly altered before the Ju 88A-1 entered service with the Luftwaffe in late 1939

coincident with the development of effective radar

PA-38 Tomahawk US Presidential Fleet Designed during the Cold WarPiper PA 38 Tomahawk airplane model. Design input for the Tomahawk came from a questionnaire Piper distributed randomly to 10,000 flight instructors during the 1970s. With their responses in mind, Piper developed the PA 38. The resulting aircraft featured a T tail and NASA Whitcomb GA(W) 1 design low set wing of constant chord and thickness (also featured on the competing Beech Skipper), a cabin wider than the Cherokee's (and thus much wider than the