OK got ya this time... Vmax being VFE... no argument on the Alfa lock, I referred to it in relation to auto flap retraction V too early on the flaps...one extreme to the other and only meant to referr to SLATS , aploigies if misleading, on the matter of 210 v 214... I wasnt quite sure in your text if you had meant the speed was fixed... as for the perf A lesson, always willing to learn new things!
Happy Hunting.....
[This message has been edited by Boxer (edited 11 October 2000).]