Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Jet Aircraft

[Rich (richF355]

----- Original Message -----
From: "LarryT" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
To: "Rich" <RichF355 [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:32 PM
Subject: [Ferrari] Jet Aircraft


> 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 -
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Well that depends. Sometimes a spinning aircraft can be fun  & entertaining
;-)

Rich