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  • March 18, 2009 at 1:19 pm in reply to: Westland Lysander Auto Slats/Flaps #1160497
    TommyN
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    Thanks for those photos; they are great!
    Blue skies,
    Tom

    March 16, 2009 at 7:38 pm in reply to: Westland Lysander Auto Slats/Flaps #1162134
    TommyN
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    Thanks; this is really great info and the type of detail for which I had hoped.

    Interesting to see that there was a flaps-lock at 3/4 position deployment with Not to Exceed 100 mph at this position.

    Thanks again. Tom

    March 15, 2009 at 3:22 pm in reply to: Westland Lysander Auto Slats/Flaps #1163297
    TommyN
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    It would be great to get some “actual pilot” views. Yesterday at our EAA Chapter meeting, we had an 88 year young PBY Catalina pilot give a presentation of his combat missions in the WWII Pacific theatre (I spelled theater that way for you guys ). He did a great job with lots of interesting pictures. He would fly up rivers on the islands and land and pick up Aussie coast watchers. Really inspiring.

    March 13, 2009 at 2:26 pm in reply to: Westland Lysander Auto Slats/Flaps #1164933
    TommyN
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    I was joking in my prior post. If you enlarge the photos significantly you can see this mechanism. But the whole scheme seems like a bad idea to me. It’s seems like you are flying the plane via indirection. I wonder if anyone actually knows an experienced older (as in WWII) pilot that can comment as to how natural the auto slat/flap system was? Did they fly the plane to make it do what they wanted or fly the plane to make the slats/flaps do what they should? Blue skies, Tom.

    March 13, 2009 at 3:02 am in reply to: Westland Lysander Auto Slats/Flaps #1165515
    TommyN
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    Some pictures…

    Given the explanation, I can almost see the mechanism in these pictures.

    March 12, 2009 at 2:22 pm in reply to: Westland Lysander Auto Slats/Flaps #1166270
    TommyN
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    Thanks; appreciate your attempt to find a photo on this…
    Blue skies,
    Tom

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