"Gord Beaman" wrote in message
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This is not true.

Maybe for slats it is ... but not for slots.

The tailplane is designed merely to control the wing which does
the whole of the lifting job. The tail actually 'pushes down' in
level flight. This produces 'fore and aft' stability just as wing
dihedral produces horizontal stability.

Like the man said, Gord, the Cessna 177 Cardinal had slots on the leading edge
of the horizontal stabiliser.

They were *inverted*, to keep that tail pushing down at low speeds.

GRIN