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Old 15th Nov 2017, 10:57
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aroa
 
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I well remember the locked check and unlocking of the slat lever on the Tiger prior to landing.
And the advisory clack ! at the required speed on touchdown...if you got it right.

Was the removal in surviving Tigers of the operating cable and slats due to that wing failure accident in WA...some 20 ?? years ago.??
Decades of vibrating cable in the spar hole, along with a split. had weakened the top outer wing structure so it failed on pull out of a loop. 2 fatal.

Auster J5P once owned, had a stall warning horn...and its sudden loud blare made me jump, first time I heard it !
Auster J 2...No flaps ...and no stall warning. Back to basics.
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