Leading Edge Slats on the Me-109

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If you have never flown a slat equipped aircraft, it is a different experience despite the slats being totally unnoticeable for the vast majority of their operation.

Once you have, the idiosyncrasies of the slats becomes part of the airplane and the tactile clues are comforting acknowledgements that everything is working as it should.

Once you explore the low speed performance of a slat equipped aircraft you will miss them on airplanes that lack such a device.