Leading Edge Slats on the Me-109

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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.

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.