Jun 17, 2005 · If the flaps are hit by air from the engines, then it will be only cold air from the fan. They will not take any hot exhaust from the engine core. If we compare to the to vintage 707's and DC-8's, then they had large cuts between the flaps behind the engines. They also deflected the flaps much deeper. But then they on the other hand had no or rather rude leading edge high lift devices while ...

Jul 18, 2007 · As with all fly-by-wire Airbuses, 1 and 1+F share the same flap detent (1). If retracting flaps, the flaps go to the 1+F setting. Flaps auto retract to 1 above a certain speed. If extending flaps, they go to 1 unless speed is less than a low value (100 knots on the A320) which means the aircraft is not in flight, in which case they go to …

Oct 19, 2014 · Why does the A380 have a leading edge droop device (or at least what looks like them) inboard of Engines 2 and 3 instead of slats like on the other areas of the wing? Was it because the wing root was too thick to support traditional slats?

May 13, 2007 · At the end of it, when the A380 has landed and the flaps are retracted, you can see that the spoilers go up very slightly in the flap retraction process, and then down again when the flaps are completely retracted.

Jul 9, 2007 · Each of the A380's six flap panels needs a flap track to support each end. That means twelve flap tracks (and fairings), except the inner inboard flap tracks are integral with the wing/fuselage blend, so don't need a fairing. Hence there are ten flap fairings.

May 3, 2017 · CosmicCruiser wrote: using the example you posted re: the A380, the MD-11 had a similar auto flap overspeed protection that would not allow landing flaps above a given speed. I remember one crew that got to see it work first hand. The 330 and 350 also have flap overspeed protection with auto retraction.

Sep 10, 2020 · Old airliners usually had multi-slot flaps. I think one of the first large aircraft with just single-slot flaps was the A320. Even some new models introduced in the 90s had multi-slot flaps, e. g. the 737NG and the 777. Airbus only added multi-slot flaps to the A321 later (which is reverting to single-slot for the XLR) and has used single-slot for everything else. Nowadays, almost all new ...

Apr 24, 2016 · Why is it that the A350, such a new aircraft type, has incredibly noisy, churning flaps extension/retraction? Wouldn't new or improved technology make this practically silent? Or are manufacturers trying to reassure timid passengers that …

May 31, 2011 · I flew the Lufthansa A380 from SFO - FRA a couple of days ago for the first time. I noticed that the speed before landing was around 170 mph. Every 747 flight I have been on usually has it at over 210 mph. Is the A380 speed lower because it …

Apr 21, 2024 · I was spotting atop the TWA hotel at JFK this week and an Emirates A380 after landing taxiied up to and parked at the gate with the flaps still fully down and the wingtip strobes still going. This went on for several minutes after engine shutdown. Any explanation?