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I slow to respond, but are you chaps talking about the same thing?
There is a leading edge slot that goes the full length of the leading edge,
which is used to allow air to transfer from the bottom to energize the upper air
flow at high angles of attack (as in landing configuration), used in many STOL
light aircraft.
I think dl is talking about a slot (from front to back -not the full
distance I assume), parallel to and close to the fuselage. Don't know what that
could be used for! But would like to know!
George ( down under)
----- 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
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