Talk:Leading edge slot

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[edit] VFD Result

The result of the VFD can be found here: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Slot -- AllyUnion (talk) 00:35, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Looks like a keeper

This is now much more than a simple definition. A bit more than a stub. --Colputt 01:44, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "slats" being considered retractable by definition

I corrected this earlier, but it seems to have been reverted. A slat is not necessarily retractable, although it often is. The definitive difference between a slot and a slat is that a slot is a notch cut out of an existing airfoil, while a slat is formed by an add-on structure outside the defined airfoil. I need to hunt down some support for this, but I recall this being the definition used in all of my aerospace engineering textbooks.

To be clear:

Slat http://www.zenithair.com/stolch701/pic06/slat.jpg Slat http://www.b737.org.uk/le_slat.jpg Slat http://www.stolspeed.com/uploads/images/Slats.jpg Slot http://www.tetonaviation.com/HU-16A_files/slot.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.84.19.219 (talk) 18:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

This is an interesting issue, one that we have been around before in this article. The main problem is that there are lots of expert textbooks on this subject and they all disagree. The one I cited, From the Ground Up is considered "the" definitive textbook used in Canada and it says if they move they are slats and if they don't move then they are slots, but there are other sources that say that slats can be fixed and slots can move. There is no agreement, so I have picked the clearest definition and cited that. I think if we are going to go the route that slats can be fixed and slots can move, then the whole article should be merged into the slats article, although this was proposed before and did not pass. 00:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahunt (talk • contribs)