U.S. TRAINING ’PLANE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 22 March 1939, Page 9

U.S. TRAINING ’PLANE.

“ADEQUATE AVABNING OF STALL.” LONDON, March 6. Suggestions have been made that the North American Harvard monoplane, which is similar to the AA'irrawav machine being made in Australia, falls suddenly sideways and begins to spin unless it is flown at a comparatively high speed. Group-Captain Payne, the Aviation Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, made a special flight in a Harvard, sometimes taking the controls himself, and he concluded that the ’plane’s stalling speed was between 60 and 70 miles an hour, which is far lower than was commonly supposed. He also concluded that the Harvard gave adequate warning of any intention to stall. Pupils told him that they like the Harvard as a trainer. “The impression that the Air Afinistry ordered an American ’plane when a better British trainer was available is incorrect.” he writes in the Daily Telegraph. “It ordered Harvards because of the difficulties experienced in the quantity production of British advanced trainers.”