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Old 14th Jan 2013, 04:20
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From the "lite" peanut gallery........

Slats seemed to be like those on the F-100. They didn't pop out until the AoA was above "x". Or were manually controlled.

Slots were permanently out there, or extended with gear/flaps down. Some really old planes had those like the Stinson and others. Possibly some of the ME-109 variants.

Then we had basic leading edge flaps like the A-7 and F-16 had. The A-7 ones came down with teh flaps. The Viper ones worked full time acoording to AoA and mach, but were fixed down at "x" degrees when gear handle was lowered.
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