Leading Edge Slats on the Me-109

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Taildraggernut,

It will be more useful for you to seperate pre-stall behaviors from stall behaviors. You keep confusing and blending the two. They are very different conditions of flight.

Taildraggernut says:
How can it be?

In the Bf-109, the main wing is stalled when the wing drops. The slats remain effective preventing spin entry and the aircraft experiences loss of elevator control to raise the nose further. That loss of elevator control prevents the pilot from increasing angle of attack beyond the stall point of the slatted portion of the airfoil.

When the slots were fully open the aircraft could be turned quite steadily until very near the stall. If the stick was then pulled back a little more the aircraft suddenly shuddered, and either tended to come out of the turn or dropped its wing further, oscillating meanwhile in pitch and roll and rapidly losing height ; the aircraft immediately unstalled if the stick was eased forward. Even in a very tight turn the stall was quite gentle, with no tendency for the aircraft to suddenly flick over on to its back and spin.

The RAE is not discussing pre-stall behavior, they are talking about the accelerated STALL of the aircraft:

Even in a very tight turn the stall was quite gentle, with no tendency for the aircraft to suddenly flick over on to its back and spin.