AEROPLANE WING WONDER

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 301, 14 September 1921, Page 5

AEROPLANE WING WONDER

30 MILES, AN HOUR FASTER

At the historical "homo of' .the aero-, plane,” Dayton, Ohio (U.S.A.), where. IS years ago, the Wright brothers made their first one-minute flight in a real power-driven heavier-than-air machine, secret tests have just been carried out with a new aeroplane which, it is claimed, will revolutionise aerial transport ■from the point of view- of the weight that can be carried for any given power According to the ‘‘Daily Mail, the key to the secret, jealously guarded, is a new wing .which has been evolved in the factory of the Com-, pany, and. which llr. Orville Wright, brother of tho late Wilbur Wright, has experimented with in model form in his private laboratory. . It is stated that the mysterious plane is really’ three wings in one. The whole front or leading edge ofljie wing is adjustable, while tho rear section is also x' hinged or jointed so that it can be shifted up or down. The aim is to enable the pilot to vary the entire camber or curve of the wing (as viewed from front to back) while the aeroplane is actually ,in flight, thus securing results which could not otherwise be obtained in combining speed and load-carrying and slowlanding properties all in tho same machine. 1 ! Mr. 'Williams, general manager of the Dayton-Wright Company, states that the wings should #dd 3D miles an hour to tho speed of present ’planes and enable commercial loads to be increased, something like fivefold without additional horse-power. - . Tests At Dayton, with an experimental machine fitted with tho new wing, have, it is said, shown that landings can be made quite easily in spaces so small that the few privileged spectators have been astonished One recent visitor to the. United States who has bepn interested in the DaytonWright wing is M. Louis Bleriot, tho famous Frerich airman and ’plane constructdßi who declares that tho time is not far distant when one will be able to leave Paris in the morning in an aeroplane flying at vast height and. speed and arrive in New York in time for luncheon and bo back again in 1 aris at lli M. t ßleriot says that at a height of t<jn miles, assuming the use of special machines now in view, a speed of more than 400 miles an hour may bo expected on long trans-ocean flights.