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"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!! :-)) In over 1700 A-4 hours, I never had an asymmetric slat extension that I could not quickly and easily control. After about 1000 hours, few of them were even unpredictable... Careful preflight of the slats would give a VERY good idea of which one would come out first, and any preflight "stickiness" was grounds for rejecting the airplane or having the Airframers work on it before flight. I believe too many TA-4s were lost in the Training Command due to students' unfamiliarity with the airplane and instructors' failure to teach and emphasize both preflight and recovery techniques. That said, I fully understand why the Blues bolted them in -- their 36" wingtip-to-fuselage clearance in some of their formation maneuvers gave quite a bit less room for error than our nominal 3-5' wingtip-to-wingtip clearance in the fleet. |
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