NEW AEROPLANE WING.
SAVING IN WEIGHT. DEVELOPMENT OF MONOPLANES. ' A new kind of feather-weight* aeroplane wing has been tested by the British Air Ministry, and found to be equal in strength to an 'ordinary _ type of wing of the same size, weighing more than twice as much. The new wing is expected to give monoplane construction an enormous advantage over the biplane, and to lead, eventually, to the use of monoplanes for all large commercial aircraft, night bombers, and flying boats. The wing is the invention of Mr A. E. L. Chorlton, chief engineer to the Beardmore Company, Squadron-Leader R. A. de Haga Haig, who was a Royal Air Force experimental pilot, and Mr Stieger. The invention is braced on a specially-designed system, which enables the wing to resist air pressures tending to twist it. The ordinary monoplane wing must have two heavy spars in order that it may be able to resist these twisting stresses. The new wing has a single spar. The wing tested by the Air Ministry was the same size and strength as a wing of ordinary construction weighing 6101 b. The new wing weighed 270 lb.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 102, 30 March 1929, Page 14
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191NEW AEROPLANE WING. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 102, 30 March 1929, Page 14
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