“FLYING WINGS”
NEW UNITED STATES ARMY MACHINES NEW YORK, July 27. Two new twin-engined army ■observation planes now being built secretly by the Fokkcr Corporation embody radical departures from conventional design. Their speed is expected to exceed 180 miles an hour—despite the complements of throe llycrs each and their armament loads. The fuselage, in which the pilots will sit, and in which the armament will ho mounted, will be built almost flush with the single thick wing, while the twin GUO h.p. Curtis Conqueror engines will also be mounted on the wing. The landing gear will be drawn up and placed in the fuselage wing structure. .The machines are admittedly experimental, and fol'jw a theory of the designers, who maintain that ulti■itoly planes will be “flying wings,” and that tails will be used to provide control.
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Evening Star, Issue 20253, 14 August 1929, Page 12
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