On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:13:00 GMT, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote:

The Blues bolted 'um shut. Can you imagine what would happen in a tight
diamond with an A4 if a wing position got an asymmetrical slat extension
with roll induced....say in a barrel roll? Not a pretty thought!! :-))

Or you could ask Steve what happens when one F-18 slat popped up over
the stops and got stuck, perpendicular to the airflow. Not a pretty
sight at all.

Of course, the O'Hare DC-10 had a slat asymmetry, although that was an
asymmetric retraction of an extended slat. Subsequent simulator
studies showed that, even knowing the problem was asymmetric slats,
the airplane was too low to recover.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer