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Leading edge slot

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A leading edge slot is a fixed aerodynamic feature of the wing of some aircraft to reduce the stall speed and promote good low-speed handling qualities. [1]

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A2 CZ Ellipse Spirit

The A2 CZ Ellipse Spirit (sometimes spelled Elipse Spirit) is a Czech ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by A2 CZ.

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Albatros L 72

The Albatros L 72 was a German transport aircraft of the 1920s, designed to carry newspapers between German cities for Ullstein-Verlag.

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Albaviation D24 MagicOne

The Albaviation D24 MagicOne is an Italian ultralight aircraft designed and produced by Albaviation of Corropoli.

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Alula

The alula, or bastard wing, (plural alulae) is a small projection on the anterior edge of the wing of modern birds and a few non-avian dinosaurs.

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Armstrong Whitworth A.W.19

The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.19 was a two/three-seat single-engine biplane, built as a general-purpose military aircraft in the mid-1930s.

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Arsenal-Delanne 10

The Arsenal-Delanne 10 was an experimental fighter aircraft of French origin.

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Beecraft Honey Bee

The Beecraft Honey Bee was an all-metal V-tailed homebuilt aircraft, that was designed by Walter E. Mooney and first flown on 12 July 1952.

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Bernard 260

The Bernard 260 C1 was a French all-metal, single-engine, low-wing monoplane with an open cockpit and fixed undercarriage, designed to a government single-seat fighter specification issued in 1930.

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Bernard H 110

The Bernard H 110 was a single engine, single seat monoplane floatplane fighter designed for a French Navy competition.

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Bernard H.52

The Bernard H.52 was a French floatplane fighter aircraft of the 1930s.

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Blackburn B-2

The Blackburn B-2 was a British biplane side-by-side trainer aircraft of the 1930s.

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Bodiansky 20

The Bodiansky 20, a French four-seat touring aircraft flown in the early 1930s, was one of the first French aircraft to adopt Handley Page slots to delay the stall and lower landing speed.

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Boundary layer control

Boundary layer control refers to methods of controlling the behaviour of fluid flow boundary layers.

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Bristol Type 123

The Bristol Type 123 was a single-seat, single-engine biplane fighter built to a United Kingdom Air Ministry specification for a four-gun fighter in the early 1930s.

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Bristol Type 148

The Bristol Type 148 was a prototype two-seat, single-engine low-wing monoplane built in 1937 to an Air Ministry contact for an army cooperation aircraft.

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BRM Land Africa

The BRM Land Africa is a Portuguese ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by BRM Costruções Aeronáuticas.

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Bush plane

A bush airplane is a general aviation aircraft used to provide both scheduled and unscheduled passenger and freight services to remote, undeveloped areas, such as the Canadian north or bush, Alaskan tundra, the African bush, or the Australian Outback.

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Coandă-1910

The Coandă-1910, designed by Romanian inventor Henri Coandă, was an unconventional sesquiplane aircraft powered by a ducted fan.

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Coupé-Aviation JC-01

The Coupé-Aviation JC-01 is the first of a series of very similar designs of two seat, single engine sports aircraft, amateur built from plans in France from 1976.

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Criquet Storch

The Criquet Storch (Stork) is a Colombian light-sport aircraft that was designed and produced by Criquet Aviation of Guaymaral Airport, Bogotá.

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Curtiss Tanager

The Curtiss Model 54 Tanager was an aircraft constructed in 1929 as Curtiss' entry in the Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition.

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Curtiss XP-31 Swift

The Curtiss XP-31 Swift (Wright Field Project Number XP-934) was a 1930s American experimental monoplane fighter built by Curtiss for the United States Army Air Corps.

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De Havilland DH.72

The de Havilland DH.72 was a large British three-engined biplane bomber, designed as a Vickers Virginia replacement.

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De Havilland Mosquito

The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito is a British twin-engine shoulder-winged multi-role combat aircraft.

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De Schelde Scheldemusch

The de Schelde Scheldemusch was a single-seat pusher biplane designed in the Netherlands to be easy and safe to fly.

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Dornier Do 217

The Dornier Do 217 was a bomber used by the German Luftwaffe during World War II as a more powerful development of the Dornier Do 17, known as the Fliegender Bleistift (German: "flying pencil").

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Douglas DC-8

The Douglas DC-8 (also known as the McDonnell Douglas DC-8) is an American four-engine long-range narrow-body jet airliner built from 1958 to 1972 by the Douglas Aircraft Company.

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Driggs-Johnson DJ-1 Bumblebee

The Driggs-Johnson DJ-1 Bumblebee was a single engine, low power, single seat, parasol wing sports monoplane built in the US in 1924.

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Fairey G.4/31

The Fairey G.4/31 was a British single-engined, two-seat biplane contender for an Air Ministry specification for a multi-role or general purpose aircraft.

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Fairey S.9/30

The Fairey S.9/30 was a two-seat, single-engined biplane built to meet an Air Ministry specification for a fleet reconnaissance aircraft.

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Flap (aeronautics)

Flaps are a type of high-lift device used to increase the lift of an aircraft wing at a given airspeed.

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Foil (fluid mechanics)

A foil is a solid object with a shape such that when placed in a moving fluid at a suitable angle of attack the lift (force generated perpendicular to the fluid flow) is substantially larger than the drag (force generated parallel to the fluid flow).

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Forward-swept wing

A forward-swept wing is an aircraft wing configuration in which the quarter-chord line of the wing has a forward sweep.

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Frederick Handley Page

Sir Frederick Handley Page, CBE, FRAeS (15 November 1885 – 21 April 1962) was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber.

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G1 Aviation G1

The G1 Aviation G1 is a French STOL ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by G1 Aviation of Le Thor.

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Gloster TSR.38

The Gloster TSR.38 was a single-engined three-seat biplane designed as a naval torpedo/spotter/reconnaissance aircraft in the early 1930s.

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Gustav Lachmann

Gustav Victor Lachmann (3 February 1896 – 30 May 1966) was a German aeronautical engineer who spent most of his professional life working for the British aircraft company Handley Page.

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Handley Page Gugnunc

The Handley Page H.P.39 is a wooden biplane constructed in 1929.

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Handley Page H.P.20

The Handley Page H.P.20 was an experimental monoplane modification of a de Havilland DH.9A, built to study controllable slots and slotted ailerons as high lift devices.

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Handley Page H.P.46

The Handley Page H.P.46 was a two-seat, single-engined biplane built to an Air Ministry specification for a carrier-based torpedo bomber.

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Handley Page H.P.47

The Handley Page H.P.47 was a British single-engined low-wing monoplane built to an Air Ministry specification for a general-purpose bomber and torpedo bomber aircraft.

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Handley Page Hampden

The Handley Page HP.52 Hampden was a British twin-engine medium bomber of the Royal Air Force (RAF).

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Handley Page Hanley

The Handley Page Hanley was a British torpedo bomber aircraft of the 1920s.

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Handley Page Hendon

The Handley Page Hendon was a British torpedo bomber of the 1920s.

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Handley Page Type S

The Handley Page Type S, or HPS-1 was a prototype British carrier-based fighter developed for the United States Navy in the early 1920s.

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Heston JC.6

The Heston JC.6 was a British prototype air observation post aircraft designed and built by the Heston Aircraft Company Limited, who had previously built the Heston Phoenix, the Heston T.1/37 and the Napier-Heston Racer.

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Hispano-Suiza E-30

The Hispano Suiza E-30, later renamed Hispano E-30, was designed in Spain in 1930 as a multi-purpose intermediate trainer.

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Hispano-Suiza E-34

The Hispano-Suiza E-34, later renamed Hispano HS-34, was a Spanish single engine, tandem seat biplane, designed as a basic trainer.

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ICP Savannah

The ICP Savannah is a high wing, single engine, ultralight with side-by-side seating for two produced in Italy by ICP srl.

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Ikarus Kurir

The Ikarus Kurir (Courier) is a single-engined high-wing monoplane designed in Yugoslavia for army liaison and air ambulance work from small airfields.

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Index of physics articles (L)

The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.

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IPT-16 Surubim

The IPT-16 Surubim was a Brazilian single-seat, single engined experimental light aircraft.

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Junqua Ibis

The Junqua Ibis RJ03 is a wooden tandem seat pusher canard light aircraft, designed in France in the early 1990s for homebuilding.

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Krichyevskii BOK-2

The BOK-2 (Byuro Osobykh Konstrooktsiy - bureau of special design) (a.k.a. RK Razreznoye Krylo – slotted wing) was an aerodynamic research aircraft designed by S. S. Krichyevskii and built in the USSR in.

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Krueger flap

Krueger flaps, or Krüger flaps, are lift enhancement devices that may be fitted to the leading edge of an aircraft wing.

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Lacey M-10

The Lacey M-10 is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed to use simple construction techniques.

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Leading edge

The leading edge is the part of the wing that first contacts the air;Crane, Dale: Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition, page 305.

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Leading edge (disambiguation)

Leading edge is the part of an aerofoil or wing which leads in movement through the air.

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Leading-edge extension

A leading-edge extension is a small extension to an aircraft wing surface, forward of the leading edge.

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Leading-edge slat

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.

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Legrand-Simon LS.60

The Legrand-Simon LS.60 is a single-engine, high-wing monoplane seating two side-by-side.

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Lucas L7

The Lucas L7, also called the L 7 and L-7, is a French amateur-built aircraft that was designed by Emile Lucas of Lagny-le-Sec.

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Messerschmitt Bf 110

--> The Messerschmitt Bf 110, often known non-officially as the Me 110, was a twin-engine heavy fighter (Zerstörer—German for "Destroyer") and fighter-bomber (Jagdbomber or Jabo) developed in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and used by the Luftwaffe during World War II.

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Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet

The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was a German rocket-powered interceptor aircraft.

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Microraptor

Microraptor (Greek, μικρός, mīkros: "small"; Latin, raptor: "one who seizes") was a genus of small, four-winged paravian dinosaurs.

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MMPL Kanpur

The MMPL Kanpur was an Indian light four-seat aircraft, designed for service and agricultural work in the early 1960s.

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Morin M85

The Etudes Andre Morin M85, or variously M 85 and M-85, is a French amateur-built aircraft that was designed by André Morin of Colombes.

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Northrop BT

The Northrop BT was a two-seat, single-engine monoplane dive bomber built by the Northrop Corporation for the United States Navy.

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Potez 25

Potez 25 (also written as Potez XXV) was a French twin-seat, single-engine biplane designed during the 1920s.

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Potez-CAMS 160

The Potez-CAMS 160 was a one-off 5/13 scale flight model built in France, first flown in the summer of 1938 to test aerodynamic and hydrodynamic qualities of the Potez-CAMS 161 airliner and mail carrier, which was too large for detailed modelling in existing wind tunnels.

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Potez-CAMS 161

The Potez-CAMS 161 was a large, French six-engined flying boat airliner, designed to operate on the North Atlantic routes that were opening up in the late 1930s.

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Preceptor STOL King

The Preceptor STOL King is an American STOL amateur-built aircraft that was designed and produced by Preceptor Aircraft, of Rutherfordton, North Carolina.

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Roland S-STOL

The Roland S-STOL is a German STOL ultralight and light-sport aircraft, produced by Roland Aircraft.

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Rubik R-18 Kánya

The Rubik R-18 Kánya (Kite) is a Hungarian light utility and glider tug aircraft.

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Ryan YO-51 Dragonfly

The Ryan YO-51 Dragonfly was an observation aircraft designed and built by Ryan Aeronautical for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC).

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Saab 29 Tunnan

The Saab 29, colloquially called Flygande tunnan ("The flying barrel"),.

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Schmeidler SN.2

The Schmeidler SN.2 was a low power, single seat aircraft designed in Germany in the 1930s to test the ability of trailing edge wing extensions to lower minimum flight speeds without a high speed drag penalty.

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SFCA Lignel 46 Coach

The SFCA Lignel 46 Coach was a French four seat touring aircraft built soon after World War II.

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Slepcev Storch

The Slepcev Storch (Stork) is a Serbian type-certified, kit and ultralight STOL aircraft, designed by Yugoslavian-Australian Nestor Slepcev and currently produced by Storch Aircraft Serbia in several different versions.

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Slots

Slots may refer to.

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SNCASE SE-2100

The Sud-Est or SNCASE SE-2100, sometimes known as the Satre SE-2100 after its designer, was a tailless, pusher configuration touring monoplane with a single engine and cabin for two.

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Spin (aerodynamics)

A spin is a special category of stall resulting in autorotation about the vertical axis and a shallow, rotating, downward path.

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Starck AS-37

The Starck AS-37 is a two-seat biplane with unconventional wing and propulsion layouts.

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Starck AS-57

The Starck AS-57 is a single engine low wing monoplane seating two in side-by-side configuration.

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Stinson 108

The Stinson 108 was a popular general aviation aircraft produced by the Stinson division of the American airplane company Consolidated Vultee, from immediately after World War II to 1950.

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STOL

STOL is an acronym for a short takeoff and landing aircraft, which have short runway requirements for takeoff and landing.

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Super 18 Model S18-180

The Super 18 Model S18-180 is an FAA type certificated light aircraft evolved from the Piper PA-18 Super Cub.

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Supermarine Seagull (1921)

The Supermarine Seagull was a British amphibian biplane flying boat developed from the Supermarine Seal by the Supermarine company.

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Sweeping jet actuators

Sweeping jet actuators are a type of active flow control technology based on fluidic oscillators used to produce sweeping jets.

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Tachihi R-53

The Tachihi R-53 was amongst the first aircraft built in Japan after the relaxation of the ban imposed at the end of World War II.

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Tapanee Pegazair-100

The Pegazair-100 STOL is a two-seat STOL homebuilt aircraft developed in Canada by Tapanee Aviation, Inc. of Mont-Saint-Michel, Quebec.

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UTVA-60

The UTVA-60 is a Yugoslavian light aircraft of the 1960s.

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Vickers Type 207

The Vickers Type 207 was a single-engined two-seat biplane designed as a shipborne torpedo bomber to an early 1930s specification.

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Waverider

A waverider is a hypersonic aircraft design that improves its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio by using the shock waves being generated by its own flight as a lifting surface, a phenomenon known as compression lift.

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Westland Lysander

The Westland Lysander (nickname the "Lizzie") is a British army co-operation and liaison aircraft produced by Westland Aircraft used immediately before and during the Second World War.

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Windmill sail

Windmills are powered by their sails.

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Wing

A wing is a type of fin that produces lift, while moving through air or some other fluid.

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Wing configuration

The wing configuration of a fixed-wing aircraft (including both gliders and powered aeroplanes or airplanes) is its arrangement of lifting and related surfaces.

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Zenith STOL CH 701

The Zenith STOL CH 701 and CH 750 are a family of light, two-place kit-built STOL aircraft designed by Canadian aeronautical engineer Chris Heintz through his Midland, Ontario based company, Zenair.

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Zenith STOL CH 801

The Zenith STOL CH 801 is a four-seat sport STOL aircraft developed by Chris Heintz and available in kit form from the Zenith Aircraft Company.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_edge_slot

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