FOOL PROOF
NEW SAFETY SLOT.
PREVENTS SIDESLIPPING IN ’PLANES.
An extraordinary demonstration of fool-proof flying was given at the Handley Page Company’s Crickelwood Aerodrome when Major Cordes, using a Moth .machine, see-sawed the entire width of the aerodrome in a stalled flight, says the aeronautical correspondent of the London Times.
The occasion was the public test of tile new interceptor slot, the object of which is to increaso the safety factor already given by the existing automatic slots. Experts admit that the latter device has revolutionised aviation by preventing a stalled machine disastrously nose-diving, but the new device enables a pilot quickly to raiso or depress either wing to prevent a side slip. It is a simple device, consisting of a narrow strip of metal, which normally lies flat upon the wing’s upper surface, but which rises up ivhen the aileron rises, thus reducing the air lift under tho higher wing. The Moth’s nose was put high up in tho air, and the machine was given a 60 degrees sideways tilt, but, instead of side-slipping, the pilot raised the other aileron with the new slot, and the ’plane regained an even keel almost instantly,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 121, 22 April 1929, Page 8
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