IGh,
Thank you for taking the time to share your obvious extensive background in the industry. I greatly appreciate your willingness to shed light on my question.
Stilton
However I would not want to go into a full stall in that Aircraft under any circumstances.
You are of course 100% correct; few of us would want to go into a full stall. Unfortunately human beings do the most imprudent things at inopportune times. As IGh pointed out in the above post (the 727 clean wing takeoff and the MD82 slow speed cruise pitch upset) pilots sometimes put their aircraft or allow the aircraft to reach an undesirable state. And I was questioning, from a philosophical design standpoint, why the system under discussion was designed in the way that it was.
I am still waiting for an Airbus pilot to contribute. If your Airbus were to get into a slow speed stall with a clean wing, would the high lift devices automatically deploy?