BRITISH AIR FORCE.
GRAVE DEFECTS REPORTED.
CAUSES OF FATALITIES..^ LONDON, Aug. 11. Sensational criticisms of fighting aircraft are made by the Aeronautical Research Committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Richard Glazebrook, in a Blue Book just issued. One of the most notable of fighting aircraft, the Bristol fighter, is unstable. Its speed, its range, and its rudder area are inadequate," it is declared. The Blue Book reveals that not much advance has been made in the past years in preventing an outbreak of fire after an aeroplane accident. It is intended further to investigate this question, by means of an experimental crash. Cinema films have proved that the introduction of a fireproof bulkhead between the engine and the pilot has definitelv saved lives.
An investigation of stalling in relation to serious accidents shows that, with the present-clay designs, stalling should bo avoided in flight. Many fatalities would not occur if all aeroplanes were designed to give a powerful control for orientation iafter stalling.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19717, 17 August 1927, Page 11
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