Ferrari Mailing List: Jet Aircraft

[LarryT (l02turner]

IIRC there's a lot of you out there interested in airplanes -

Watched a special about the ME262 - the German jet fighter that became 
operation late in WW2.  Seems the engineering was pretty creative on them - 
they had leading edge flaps which extended by *gravity* when speed dropped 
below 150knts and retracted at 200knts IIRC.  Sometimes simple works the 
best --  They showed a technician adjusting the ball bearings the flaps 
rolled on so they didn;t stick - which had a tendency to cause the flaps to 
stick - very bad when only one sticks - which was usually the case -

Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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