A "SAFETY" AEROPLANE
MACHINE TEAT CANNOT CRASH 1 Oli SPIM.
An aeroplane which'can. do things no other aeroplane has ever'done was seen in flight recently at. the Eoyal Aircraft Establishment, South tfarnborough, Hants, by members of the International Commission for Air Navigation, states tho Aeronautical correspondent of tho "Daily Chronicle." This machine is designed to free aviation from oiio of its greatest, jierils. When an aeroplane loses Hying speed, and its wings cense to exercise their normal lift, tho danger is that it may lose stability, ami get into a spin from which tho pilot'cannot extricate it before it 'Strikes the ground. It is calculated, in fact, that 90 per cent of all flying fatalities.have been due to
Flying-Officer Vincent took up this wonderful "safety-plane," and amazed the spectators by what, ho did with it. .At one time ho seemed to bo hovering almost motionless in the air; more like a helicopter than an aeroplane. Deliberately, abovo the heads of the spectators, he "stalled" his machine, causing its wings to lose (heir normal lift. Yet never onec did ho loso control of tho 'plane and never onco diJ it show any sign of instability. Air thnt it did, when stalled was t.j loso altitude a. little, and thcii pick up'apoed. Of any tendency io spin uuei's was never a jsisii.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1925, Page 16
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220A "SAFETY" AEROPLANE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1925, Page 16
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