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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
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Right.....nothing remarkeable
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The Spitfires and Hurricanes could follow the Me.109 round during the stalled turns without themselves showing any signs of stalling
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What?!!!! but these aircraft don't have magic slats
Anyway what some people don't appear to grasp is the fact that the effect slats have is not 'infinite', they can only give a fixed amount of increased alpha before stall and what do you think happens after that?
if your elevators remain effective then you have the ability to go beyond maximum AoA and stall.......and dare I say it spin too, after all if one magic slated wing exceeds max AoA before the other then it will flip.
let's not forget the reason the 109 got slats was to improve it's
'low speed' handling......much like any other aircraft with slats (no coincidence slats feature heavily on STOL aircraft) and was nothing to do with making it better at turning, simply it was to prevent that very skittish high-speed, high-loading wing from killing pilots at approach speeds.
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