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Old 22nd Dec 2010, 15:23
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Swedish Steve
 
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The Trident had leading edge slats
The original Trident 1C had leading edge droop. It wasn't a slat because there was no slot, otherwise worked the same.
But for us engineers, very difficult to make it work properly. Rigging it after a component change took 8 hours.
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