In your message dated Thursday 18, April 1996 you wrote :
> Plastic Paper clips, Fletner Strips?
The only time I have seen these strips is on fighter aircraft, looking at a
cross section they appear as a T shape on the trailing edge of the
taileron control surface. The arms of the T appearing above and below the
trailing edge an equal distance. As I'm a propulsion techician I asked someone
in the know and they tell me that the T section interupts the boundery airflow
over the trailing edge and just helps with control response,stablity and feed
back. Plastic paper clips, I think are just plastic edge binders for holding
loose leaf paper. A great idea for just giving the theory a try.
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