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unusual facts about Flaps



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Airspeed Envoy

:(Hinazuru - en Young Crane)Licence production by Mitsubishi, fitted with flaps and powered by Gasuden Jimpu, or licence-built Armstrong Siddeley Lynx or Wolseley Aries Mk.III engines.

Beatty-Johl BJ-2 Assegai

Camber changing Fowler flaps had been used before on gliders, notably on the 1938 Akaflieg Hannover AFH-4 and the 1948 Cijan-Obad Orao II, though not fitted to this design's later version.

Curtiss XP-31 Swift

Powered by a 700 hp (520 kW) R-1750 Cyclone radial, its performance was dismal, despite retractable leading edge slots and large trailing-edge flaps, so a 600 hp (450 kW) Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror was substituted.

Eric M. Genden

Microvascular Free-Tissue Transfer: The Anatomy and Application of Free Flaps in Contemporary Head and Neck Reconstruction. American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck, 2006 ISBN 1-56772-098-6

Handley Page H.P.47

The H.P.47 continued to fly at the RAE, testing its combination of slots, interceptors and flaps at low speeds.

Krueger flaps

The Krueger flaps developed for the Boeing 747 were constructed from fiberglass honeycomb material and were designed to be intentionally distorted into an aerofoil section on deployment.

L. E. Baynes

Baynes designed the Youngman-Baynes High Lift, an experimental, flying test-bed for the system of slotted flaps invented by R.T. Youngman.

Lampsilis cardium

Lampsilis cardium accomplishes this by having the inner sides of its mantle flaps marked with longitudinal stripes, resembling a small fish of the genus Notropis.

O.W. Timm Aircraft Company

In 1934 Otto and his brother Wally Timm joined to form a new company named the Timm Airplane Company to produce the Timm T-S140, a high wing twin engine aircraft using new features developed at NACA such as flaps and tricycle landing gear.

Slingsby T.20

The T.20 was fitted with special instrumentation and large Zap flaps, fixed at 30°, at Wombleton aerodrome where initial trials were carried out at low altitude towed behind a car.

SMA SR305-230

Belly-mounted cowl flaps are still used, but less cooling airflow is directed over the cylinder barrels and more cooling airflow is directed into side-mounted oil coolers.

Stinson L-1 Vigilant

The prototype aircraft was built full-span leading-edge automatic slots manufactured by Handley Page, and slotted flaps.

SZD-49 Jantar K

Władysław Okarmus set about designing a new wing, with flaps, for use with the SZD-48-3 fuselage, the resulting off-spring was named SZD-49 Jantar K. First flight of the prototype, (SP-2583, X-143), took place at Bielsko in October 1978.

Yellowspotted catshark

Small flaps cover the nostrils but do not extend as far as the mouth and there are no nasoral grooves.


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