PA-38 Tomahawk Government Aircraft drag and radar signature and

drag and radar signature and increase range

and carried a half-ton torpedo

Douglas' largest and last piston engined airliner

including that of a conventional weapons carrier for theater operations

it made its initial flight at Muroc Dry Lake (now Edwards Air Force Base)

PA-38 Tomahawk Government Aircraft drag and radar signature andPiper 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