On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 14:08, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Andy Ross writes: > > * For safety. The A-4 had automatic slats that were retracted by > > aerodynamic force -- they dropped automatically at low airspeeds and > > high AoA's. On the ground, they just hung open. This was a great > > idea for maintenance purposes, but left open the possibility that > > they might get stuck and deploy asymmetrically. That's a > > recoverable situation normally, but not when there's another plane a > > few feet under or above your wing tip. :) > > The helio courier also has this feature. The leading edge slats are > split so you have two per wing ... four total acting independently of > each other. Depending on a variety of factors, each of the four could > deploy/retract at a different time. They made a bit of a bang coming > down so if you weren't expecting them, an unwary passenger might be a > little surprised and wonder what just fell off. :-) It's a neat idea > that is simple and effective. I've always thought it would be kind of > fun to impliment something like this on an R/C model, not that the > typical R/C model would need them ...
Two per wing, all independent? Sounds like a lot of potential for lateral control hell.... > > Curt. > -- > Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project > Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
