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WHEN commercial aviation took off after the second world war, there was no such thing as runway congestion. Over 9,000 miles-worth of concrete airstrips and taxiways had been built in wartime Britain alone. There were plenty of time slots available in which airliners could take off and land. But as air travel opened up to the masses, these early airports quickly filled. Expanding them proved more difficult than was originally thought. Opposition from locals to noisy jet engines and by environmentalists to the emissions they produce has meant that only a few new runways have been built. In 1946 the British government approved a third runway at Heathrow airport, outside London. Since then, more than a dozen commissions, policy documents and white papers have been produced about where to put it—but no action has been taken (and Heathrow has become the most congested airport in Europe). So how is the limited capacity rationed out between airlines?

Airports do not decide who should use their runways and when. Instead, since the 1940s schedules have been hammered out at meetings between airlines. In the 1960s, with traffic starting to strain some airports, these events evolved into a way of parcelling out the most prized slots. Since the 1970s allocation has been steered in most countries by the “Worldwide Slot Guidelines” drawn up by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), a trade group mainly representing the legacy carriers. These state that an airline can keep a given slot from the previous season as long as it used the slot 80% of the time. Any slots freed up under this “use it or lose it” rule have been allocated since the 1990s to other applicants by independent airport co-ordinators. Some places, including the European Union, insist that new entrants must receive half of these. Airlines then swap or adjust the timings among each other at the conference to try to maximise profits. Some countries, such as Britain, allow slots to be traded and sold.

Over 190 congested airports—103 of them in Europe—follow these rules, which IATA describes as “fair, neutral and transparent”. But in practice they help to shut new entrants out of busy airports, to the benefit of incumbents. Lower-cost new entrants, and consumers, lose out as a result. To comply with the use-it-or-lose-it rule, many airlines resort to artifice, flying smaller planes than necessary in order to spread capacity across their slots, for example, and even running empty “ghost” flights to ensure that the runways are busy at the appointed time. So slots are not recycled from established carriers to new ones, but are held on to. One analysis showed that only 0.4% of Heathrow’s total slots and 0.7% of Paris Charles de Gaulle’s were allocated to new entrants during the period under study.

Incumbents have good reason to hoard the best slots. They are allocated according to IATA’s guidelines at no cost, but the money they generate goes to the carrier, which pays the same airport fees in both busy and quiet times. A shortage of landing slots in Europe inflates the fares passengers pay at busy times by €2.1bn ($2.5bn) a year, according to SEO Amsterdam Economics, a consultancy, and Cranfield University. That extra money flows straight to the lucky airlines. Some slots are sold at eye-watering prices, well beyond the means of start-ups. Last year Air France-KLM, a legacy carrier, sold a single daily landing and take-off slot at Heathrow to Oman Air for $75m. It is no wonder that many legacy carriers have been fighting hard against efforts to boost competition at airports with slot-allocation reform. The only way to get the best slots at congested airports is by buying or inheriting them—not by providing the best or cheapest service to passengers.

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Slats are aerodynamic surfaces on the leading edge of the wings of fixed-wing aircraft which, when deployed, allow the wing to operate at a higher angle of attack. A higher coefficient of lift is produced as a result of angle of attack and speed, so by deploying slats an aircraft can fly at slower speeds, or take off and land in shorter distances. They are usually used while landing or performing maneuvers which take the aircraft close to the stall, but are usually retracted in normal flight to minimize drag. They decrease stall speed.

Slats are one of several high-lift devices used on airliners, such as flap systems running along the trailing edge of the wing.

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Types[edit]

Types include:

Automatic

The spring-loaded slat lies flush with the wing leading edge, held in place by the force of the air acting on them. As the aircraft slows down, the aerodynamic force is reduced and the springs extend the slats. Sometimes referred to as Handley-Page slats.

Fixed

The slat is permanently extended. This is sometimes used on specialist low-speed aircraft (these are referred to as slots) or when simplicity takes precedence over speed.

Powered

The slat extension can be controlled by the pilot. This is commonly used on airliners.

Operation[edit]

The chord of the slat is typically only a few percent of the wing chord. The slats may extend over the outer third of the wing, or they may cover the entire leading edge. Many early aerodynamicists, including Ludwig Prandtl, believed that slats work by inducing a high energy stream to the flow of the main airfoil, thus re-energizing its boundary layer and delaying stall.^[1] In reality, the slat does not give the air in the slot a high velocity (it actually reduces its velocity) and also it cannot be called high-energy air since all the air outside the actual boundary layers has the same total heat. The actual effects of the slat are:^[2][3]

The slat effect

The velocities at the leading edge of the downstream element (main airfoil) are reduced due to the circulation of the upstream element (slat) thus reducing the pressure peaks of the downstream element.

The circulation effect

The circulation of the downstream element increases the circulation of the upstream element thus improving its aerodynamic performance.

The dumping effect

The discharge velocity at the trailing edge of the slat is increased due to the circulation of the main airfoil thus alleviating separation problems or increasing lift.

Off the surface pressure recovery

The deceleration of the slat wake occurs in an efficient manner, out of contact with a wall.

Fresh boundary layer effect

Each new element starts out with a fresh boundary layer at its leading edge. Thin boundary layers can withstand stronger adverse gradients than thick ones.^[3]

The slat has a counterpart found in the wings of some birds, the alula, a feather or group of feathers which the bird can extend under control of its 'thumb'.

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History[edit]

Slats were first developed by Gustav Lachmann in 1918. The stall-related crash in August 1917 of a Rumpler C aeroplane prompted Lachmann to develop the idea and a small wooden model was built in 1917 in Cologne. In Germany in 1918 Lachmann presented a patent for leading-edge slats.^[4] However, the German patent office at first rejected it as the office did not believe the possibility of postponing the stall by dividing the wing.

Independently of Lachmann, Handley Page Ltd in Great Britain also developed the slotted wing as a way to postpone the stall by delaying separation of the flow from the upper surface of the wing at high angles of attack, and applied for a patent in 1919; to avoid a patent challenge, they reached an ownership agreement with Lachmann. That year an Airco DH.9 was fitted with slats and test flown.^[5] Later, an Airco DH.9A was modified as a monoplane with a large wing fitted with full-span leading edge slats and trailing-edge ailerons (i.e. what would later be called trailing-edge flaps) that could be deployed in conjunction with the leading-edge slats to test improved low-speed performance. This was later known as the Handley Page H.P.20^[6] Several years later, having subsequently taken employment at the Handley-Page aircraft company, Lachmann was responsible for a number of aircraft designs, including the Handley Page Hampden.

Licensing the design became one of the company's major sources of income in the 1920s. The original designs were in the form of a fixed slot near the leading edge of the wing, a design that was used on a number of STOL aircraft.

During World War II, German aircraft commonly fitted a more advanced version of the slat that reduced drag by being pushed back flush against the leading edge of the wing by air pressure, popping out when the angle of attack increased to a critical angle. Notable slats of that time belonged to the German Fieseler Fi 156Storch. These were similar in design to retractable slats, but were fixed and non-retractable. This design feature allowed the aircraft to take-off into a light wind in less than 45 m (150 ft), and land in 18 m (60 ft). Aircraft designed by the Messerschmitt company employed automatic, spring-loaded leading-edge slats as a general rule, except for the Alexander Lippisch-designed Messerschmitt Me 163BKomet rocket fighter, which instead used fixed slots built integrally with, and just behind, the wing panel's outer leading edges.

Post-World War II, slats have also been used on larger aircraft and generally operated by hydraulics or electricity.

Research[edit]

Several technology research and development efforts exist to integrate the functions of flight control systems such as ailerons, elevators, elevons, flaps, and flaperons into wings to perform the aerodynamic purpose with the advantages of less: mass, cost, drag, inertia (for faster, stronger control response), complexity (mechanically simpler, fewer moving parts or surfaces, less maintenance), and radar cross-section for stealth. These may be used in many unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and 6th generation fighter aircraft. One promising approach that could rival slats are flexible wings.

In flexible wings, much or all of a wing surface can change shape in flight to deflect air flow. The X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing is a NASA effort. The adaptive compliant wing is a military and commercial effort.^[7][8][9]

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References[edit]

1. ^Theory of wing sections, Abbott and Doenhoff, Dover Publications
2. ^High-Lift Aerodynamics, A.M.O. Smith, Journal of Aircraft, 1975
3. ^ ^abHigh-Lift Aerodynamics, by A. M. O. Smith, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Long Beach, June 1975Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine
4. ^Gustav Lachmann - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (November 1921). 'Experiments with slotted wings'(PDF). Retrieved 2018-10-14.
5. ^Handley Page, F. (December 22, 1921), 'Developments In Aircraft Design By The Use Of Slotted Wings', Flight, XIII (678), p. 844, archived from the original on 2012-11-03 – via Flightglobal Archive
6. ^F. Handley Page 'Developments In Aircraft Design By The Use Of Slotted Wings'Archived 2012-11-03 at the Wayback MachineFlight, December 22nd 1921, photo page 845 of converted D.H.4 for testing of slotted wings
7. ^Scott, William B. (27 November 2006), 'Morphing Wings', Aviation Week & Space Technology, archived from the original on 26 April 2011
8. ^'FlexSys Inc.: Aerospace'. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
9. ^Kota, Sridhar; Osborn, Russell; Ervin, Gregory; Maric, Dragan; Flick, Peter; Paul, Donald. 'Mission Adaptive Compliant Wing – Design, Fabrication and Flight Test'(PDF). Ann Arbor, MI; Dayton, OH, USA: FlexSys Inc., Air Force Research Laboratory. Archived from the original(PDF) on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2011.

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