X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from x.itlnet.net ([64.19.112.9] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2c4) with ESMTPS id 2633713 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:36:23 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.19.112.9; envelope-from=jwvoto@itlnet.net Received: from x.itlnet.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by x.itlnet.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id m071ZUMb009124 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:35:30 -0600 Received: from itlnet.net (email1.itlnet.net [192.168.10.156]) by x.itlnet.net (x.itlnet.net [172.16.1.148]) id k05JZU12556484169l ret-id none; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:35:30 -0600 Received: from JWVOTO (unverified [64.19.115.72]) by itlnet.net (SurgeMail 3.8p) with ESMTP id 171028-1769559 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:35:29 -0600 Message-ID: <003701c850cd$e1cebfc0$48731340@JWVOTO> From: "Wendell Voto" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" References: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Off Topic-RA5C Vigilante question Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:37:28 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0034_01C8509B.924AFCC0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Authenticated-User: jwvoto@itlnet.net X-ITLnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ITLnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ITLnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0.963, required 4, BAYES_00 -2.60, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_28 1.56, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, INLINE_IMAGE 2.00, SPF_HELO_PASS -0.00, WEIRD_PORT 0.00) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C8509B.924AFCC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- I think that was for slow flight, there was a production = aircraft the had a slot through the wing but was always open and i heard = that you did not want to close it off, the plane became almost = uncontrolable at low speed. FWIW Wendell Last year I was on the aircraft carrier Midway at San Diego and at the = tail they had an old North American RA5C. As I checked it out a = discovered that it had a slot in both wings just inboard from the wing = fold that allowed air to move from the top of the wing to the = bottom...presumably in a landing configuration. Does anyone by chance = know why it was needed or when used? Thanks. dl -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape in the new year.=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- -- Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ Archive and UnSub: = http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C8509B.924AFCC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
----- I = think that=20 was for slow flight, there was a production aircraft the had a slot = through=20 the wing but was always open and i heard that you did not want to = close it=20 off, the plane became almost uncontrolable at low speed.=20 FWIW
Wendell

Last year I was on the aircraft carrier Midway at San Diego and = at the=20 tail they had an old North American RA5C.  As I checked it out a=20 discovered that it had a slot in both wings just inboard from the wing = fold=20 that allowed air to move from the top of the wing to the = bottom...presumably=20 in a landing configuration.  Does anyone by chance know why it = was needed=20 or when used?
 
Thanks.
 
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