On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:18:41 -0700, "Richard Isakson"
wrote:

"Big John" wrote ...
Not sure. Was over 30 years ago. They hung out on the ground and
remember pushing them into the retracted position and they would fall
out by their own weight, on pre flight. Want to say they were one
piece but ????????????????????


It's been a long time for me also, but I'm sure the slats were one
piece, with five roller guides per wing. I've never seen a de-ice
boot on one.

An interesting story that I heard, again a long time ago, was from a
pilot that had flown the F-86D and got checked out in the T-39. The
wings look a lot the same, and the plane flew about the same. Well,
they would roll and loop and dogfight the T-39s until they found out
that they were only designed for something like 3.8 Gs.

Mike Weller