The airways

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19240, 29 November 1930, Page 18 (Supplement)

The airways

GROUND MANOEUVRING.

In a way it is almost as important that an aeroplane should be as easy to manoeuvre on the ground as it in the air. There are many occasions when a team of several lusty men is not available to lift the tail and to drag round by its wing tips un fN it is facing in the right direction. rou have the rudder to steer by, of' course, and quite likely the tail skid , mo . ve . s w,t h the rudder. But the latter ha*little or no influence upon the control of the machine until the engine is sp<3sdfed up and provides a brisk stream of air in which the rudder can work. easily mean an uncomfort.high ground speed, with the possibility of the aeroplane sustaining undue shocks- by bumps. pf late much improvement has been ; made in this matter by the use of j brakes fitted to the landing wheels. I These brakes, I maj* mention, can be

■ applied quite firmly when the machine 1 is landing without having, as might . easily be supposed, any tendency to turn it over. Xeedless to say, they r greatly reduce the run of the aeroplane ! after landing, and are thus a valuable safety factor. B- • el rak( ar ■ xtrem ly useful iin another respect. They make the ■! aeroplane verv easy to handle on the .; ground. The rudder can be inter-con- ; with them so that the wheel is i locked on the side to which the pilot wishes to turn. In these circumstances . the machine comes round quickly and . certainly, and in little more than its . own length. i This i - of great od\'antagc to the ; private flyer, who often has to come ’ j down in comparatively small fields, and . i would otherwise have to “man-handle" : his machine in confined spaces.

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