The fuselage opening is placed underneath to make it possible that the flaperon connection runs straight and without complications. |
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Mr Truss told a press conference that a number stamped on the flaperon could be used to quickly identify whether it is from the missing plane. |
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A flaperon appeared on Reunion last week, and was sent to France to be assessed by experts, and has now been verified as genuine. |
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Investigators will also be scrutinising the flaperon for signs of how it was torn away from the wing it was part of. |
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The two-metre object, thought to be a section of wing called a flaperon, will be probed at a defence ministry lab in Toulouse. |
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We flew the HI-ILS, made our gear call at three miles, touched down on the piano keys, and began to aerobrake with good flaperon popups. |
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Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said a maintenance seal on the flaperon matches the airline's records, though he didn't elaborate. |
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Experts have said the two-metre object washed up on a beach could be a moveable piece of a Boeing 777's wing, called a flaperon. |
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Investigators will now use high-powered microscopes to analyse the barnacle-covered flaperon in a bid to understand what caused the plane to go down. |
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A stall speed for zero flaperon deflection is not given. Pilots who have flown the Kitfox IV indicate that it has reasonable stall characteristics without the tendency to drop a wing during the exercise. |
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Malaysia's Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said tests in France had made this link with a recentlydiscovered flaperon from an airplane wing. |
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Experts were convinced that the flaperon was from MH370 because the seal on the part matched the maintenance record and the paint was the same colour. |
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