> extended position. Part > of the walk-around is to push up on the slats and note free and easy > movement. Air pressure against the wing moves them to the retracted > position. As airpseed is increased/reduced they extend or retract in > response to the > corresponding force of the relative wind. Short of a major structual failure > (large bird strike perhaps?) not a whole > lot than can go wrong and even then chances are they will still extend > A number of Bf-109 pilots would have the slats bolted into the retracted position to keep a asymetrical slat deployment from ruining a gun attack.
I bet A-4 pilots thought of doing it too. :) g. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
