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sokoloff on Jan 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is this plane landing or departing?

You're correct on most airliners, but not the 747 (on which the VC-25 is based).

A 747 has Kreuger flaps [1] between fuselage and inner engines and 'variable camber leading edge flaps' on the rest of the wing.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-lift_device [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krueger_flap

FabHK on Jan 16, 2017 [–]

Awesome, thanks. Nice illustration as to the differences in the Wikipedia article. The LH crash Wikipedia article seems inaccurate, then.

Edit: put a note in the Wikipedia article.

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