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Piper Cherokee Arrow in Detail

Part II

n Text and photos by Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro

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Nose landing gear.
 

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The nose gear well, rather overexposed at the edges as I used a flash to get the detail inside the dark well. A surprising amount of cruft in here, but most of it probably for the engine rather than the landing gear. The front of the aircraft is towards the bottom of the picture.

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 The left main landing gear. The plane does not have very much in the way of ground clearance, so I had to lie down, stick my arm under the wing, point the camera and hope for the best.
 

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 The gear well is very dirty.
 

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 Interestingly, the main wheel well is not quite as dirty.
 

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 The characteristic stiffeners on the underside. I'm not sure what the blade-like thing is, an antenna or what? Note the rubber seal between fuselage and wing.
 

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 The tip of the tail fin with position light and attachment point for antenna. I don't know what the meshed opening is for.
 

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 The antenna wire has apparently been (at least partly) covered with a plastic tube, but it has degraded and broken up.

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 The incidence of the stabilizer can be adjusted. Note the manufacturer's data plate in front of the stabilizer.
 

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 The backend of the aircraft. The stabilizers have the same kind of beige rectangles as the wings, I don't know what they are for.
 

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 Same as before, but from a lower position.
 

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 The fuel filler on the right wing, here looking towards the wing leading edge.
 

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