MAKING FLYING SAFER.
EXPERIMENTS TN BRITAIN. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPY BIGHT LONDON, Nov. 17. Sir Samuel lioarc, Air Minister, today is taking part in an experimental flight as the passenger in a machine fitted with the automatic safety wing slots, the* invention of Handley Page, the American rights of which have been scld to the United States Government for £2*20,000. The slots arc designed to "■ivo the pilot Internal control when flyTng slowly, and when in such a position as would ordinarily mean stalling fiini the fatal spin to which is attri--1 MtC-d approximately 00 per cent, of all aeroplane accidents.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 November 1927, Page 5
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102MAKING FLYING SAFER. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 November 1927, Page 5
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