109E3 has no slats, that is right?

Originally Posted by Sutts

I thought they were simply spring loaded and extended automatically when the air pressure reduced at lower speeds. What controls are we talking about here?

They aren't spring loaded to any position (no springs) but they do operate automatically and independently. On the ground (three point attitude) you can push them in and they will stay up or you can pull them down and they'll stay down, try it the next time you're in a museum displaying a 109 (and ready to leave). I've always thought it might have been a good idea to reduce the deployment angle of the slats and then run a small cable between them to make them deploy/retract together, but then they wouldn't have been operating as efficiently ...