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Old 29th January 2003 | 20:38
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Lu Zuckerman

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Most likely at cruise speed you'll lose your flaps... reduce speed to min clean anyway and plan for flaps up landing...
Am I to assume that you are saying the flaps have been ripped off and the wing structure has not been compromised? If so, the A-310 I believe has a supercritical airfoil that is aft loaded and as such the retracted flaps make up a large part of the lift. Without the flaps the aerodynamics have been seriously compromised and the aircraft is uncontrollable. You have to be able to halt the extension or retraction before it becomes dangerous. The question is what do you do to stop the movement?

QUOTE: After V1: TOGA, depending on RWY length, selected VR and terrain situation: rotate at Vmu (clean) and do a shallow climb, slowly accelerating (my personal opinion)

In the case of the Air Canada A-320 that suffered a flap retraction on takeoff the pilots had to use every bit of available power and they still almost lost it.



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