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Old 18th Sep 2008, 17:40
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Swedish Steve
 
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This unit the is linked to each slat section with VERY thick control cables that via a simple solution with wires and pulleys from both sides actually pulling the the slat either in or out and they are all linked together unlike say a 737.
The DC10 has the same idea, the cable is nearly one inch diam.
Anyway one day in about 1982, a KLM DC10 turned up on our hangar ramp in BAH. Went out to see why and it had a Nbr 1 eng failure. I could put my head up in the hole and look into the combustion chamber. One of the HPT blades had sheared the main slat cable in two! Sort of auto slats with engine failure I suppose
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