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Used Aircraft Guide: Piper Aerostar Offers Turbine-Like Performance

Flying Magazine

The Aerostar is the product of famed aircraft designer Ted Smith, whose name is attached to such classics as the A-20 twin-engine bomber and the Twin and Jet Commander lines. But when it all comes together, its an impressively capable go-places machine with a flying experience more like a small jet than a light piston twin.

Knot 111
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Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

Another advantage of the counter-rotating props is the elimination of torque roll. This is the tendency to dig in the left tip float during takeoff while countering engine torque. But I have maintained 5000 feet at 6000 pounds gross weight,” notes Ross. Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We