Clean configuration refers to the flight configuration of an airplane when its external equipment is retracted to minimize drag and thus maximize speed for a given power setting.
Clean configuration
Tags: FAA Pilot's Handbook
Clean configuration. A configuration in which all flight control surfaces have been placed to create minimum drag. In most aircraft this means flaps and gear retracted.
Clean configuration. A configuration in which all flight control surfaces have been placed to create minimum drag. In most aircraft this means flaps and gear retracted.
At a safe altitude, start with the airplane in the clean configuration in level flight, a couple of knots above the speed where the stall warning horn comes on.
Maintaining constant pitch attitude and maintaining level flight, extend the flaps.
The strongest vortices are produced by heavy aircraft flying slowly in a clean configuration.
The one engine inoperative (OEI) service ceiling of a twin-engine, fixed-wing aircraft is the density altitude at which flying in a clean configuration, ...
 See also: Wing, Lift, Landing, Power, Drag
  
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