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Originally Posted by TomcatViP
-Slats are deployed in front of the ailerons in order to keep ctrl at stall conditions. No wing drop (and full airflow around the pouter portion of teh wing), no asymmetric stall . Hence no spin. This is why Crumpp refer it as an anti-spin device. So Crumpp was right (again...)
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Wurster slowed down, pushing back the throttle to idle. As the Bf 109V2 slowed, the automatic leading-edge slats deployed and the warning horn sounded in the cockpit. The controls gently shuddered. The plane was now on the edge of a stall. With both the rudder and ailerons ineffective, the control stick going forward towards the instrument panel, he pushed the nose about ten degrees below the horizon.
The left wing dropped and the aeroplane went into a spin. (...)