SMOOTH LANDING.
"TRICYCIJB" GEAR. USE ON SLEEPER 'PLANE. COMFORT OF PASSENGERS. LOXDON, September 22. The Royal Dutch Air Line (K.L.M.), is taking delivery of a new American training -p*ane winch, the makers claim, it is possible for a novice to fly after one hour's instruction. The feature of this machine is the tricycle landing gear. The. idea is by
no means r.ew—Orville Wright's first 'plane was equipped with a landing gear of this type —"but it has never been applied to modern aeroplanes. It is impossible to overturn this machine when landing. The Dutch line have bought it to train 1 heir pilots to a tricycle landing ••car. for the new 40-seater four-engined Douglas sleeper 'plane which they have ordered will have one. A normal 'plane on the ground points to the sky at an angle of 35deg. One with a tricycle gear is horizontal. In the past when sleeper 'planes landed to refuel on the trans-Continental run from Los Angeles to New York the passengers were always awakened. With this new landing gear it will be possible to sleep all the way. The action of landing will be as smooth as a sleeper train pulling up at a station.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 264, 6 November 1937, Page 19
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