Bob Noel wrote:

In article , Ray Andraka
wrote:


Hmmm. If I did my numbers right, that's about 1.2 cubic feet of
aluminum. Seems like a lot of aluminum.

Well, the tapered wings are a few feet longer, the fiberglass tip tanks
are replaced with a second set of aluminum tanks, and who knows what
else was changed on the airframe to accommodate the tapered wings. The
point is the tapered winged models run about 200 lbs more than the
hershey bar winged models.


Over the years, Piper added more sound insulation and the like, adding pounds
to the basic empty weight of cherokees.



Yeah, but 200 pounds? That's terrible. I'm ****ed because I have a 22
pound lead weight in the nose for CG purposes.