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Old 17th Dec 2009, 12:18
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Spooky 2
 
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The current B787 design includes aileron droop. All this speculation is amazing. Where do you guys come up this stuff?

One thing really interesting on the 787 is a system called Cruise flaps where it squeezes out a small undetected amount of trailing edege flaps and aileron droop to incrase the camber of the wing, thus enhancing performance. (Only in level cruise flight) Also another system called Auto Drag will assist the pilot when approaching the GS from above. Need flaps 25 or greater for it to work and it does this without pilot imput. Washes out at 500 AGL.
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