VERTICAL FLIGHT.
Can an aeroplane be built that will tiy straight up? Many odd craft have been built in vain attempts to solve this problem. but at least one American inventor is pinning his hopes to one of even stranger design than most. His corkscrew plane, according to him. will lift itself by means of a whirling, continuous wing of spiral design. A small propeller will keen the framework 'Tom spinning Although aviation experts oflet the idealittle encouragement, the inventor has the usual determination of his class, and is busily putting the finishing touches to a large model with which he will test h's ‘■'’°ory.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 183, 1 May 1933, Page 7
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105VERTICAL FLIGHT. Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 183, 1 May 1933, Page 7
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