Flying Magazine

JUNE 18, 2025

Even after stretching the fuselage and adding so-called family seats to the S35 V-tail model, the Bonanza wasn’t capable of seating six full-sized adults. But the 1968 model year brought a true six-place Bonanza with aft cabin doors and a conventional tail. D’Shannon’s tip fuel tanks increase the gross to 4,010.

Gross Weight

Flying Magazine

JUNE 10, 2025

I took off from Runway 34L at 169,800 pounds gross weight, rotated at 1.8 READ MORE: Making Some Flying Memories to Last a Lifetime Mildly interesting stuff, but not a ton to take away other than further proof that I’m not as sharp on the tail end of a red-eye. degrees per second, and lifted off at a pitch attitude of 6.5

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

Piper put bigger engines in the basic PA-28, gave it retractable gear, stretched the fuselage, changed the wing to a semitapered design, gave it a T-tail (then took the T-tail away), made the cabin wider and fitted six seats, and refined it year over year to the airplane it is today. We found six runway overrun accidents.

Approach

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

True, a slightly higher aspect ratio wing was desired, which in turn required a larger vertical tail and thus a little extra mass, but the size, approximately 20% larger than a Widgeon, was set. The Mallard—it’s a trike—has a tail stinger because it otherwise falls on its tail when loading.” lb/sq ft Power loading 10.32

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