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Originally Posted by Crumpp
Again, they act like training wheels on a bicycle. In otherwords, it should be EXTREMELY difficult to spin the aircraft and very easy to recover.
The advantage of the slats is in preventing spins. Find a report on the spin characteristics of the Bf-109.
There is an engineering reason there is not one.
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Interesting in light of the fact that one of the reasons the 109 was chosen over the He 112 was because test pilot Hermann Wurster was able to demonstrate a series of spins, 21 to port, 17 to starboard, before a group of Luftwaffe officials. Clearly the 109 was easy to recover from spins - the E probably a little more difficult than a Jumo engined prototype - but the slats were not some miracle cure for spins.
