Word: aileron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monica, Calif, last week climbed a standard Douglas DC2 transport with a few subtle changes in wing design. When it landed again after buzzing back & forth over the Tehachapi Mountains for several hours, Douglas officials revealed that they had devised a satisfactory way to prevent the unique icing of ailerons which caused the crash of a Transcontinental & Western Air Douglas DC2 fortnight ago near Pittsburgh (TIME, April 5). Chief Engineer Arthur E. Raymond merely added a few inches to the underside of the wing in front of the slot where the ailerons hinge on. This reduces the flow...
...plot, we will not question the possibility of the picture's main device, an instrument panel that can be read by a blind man. But there is no excusing Myrna Loy's crash scene in which she turns into the ship flying next to her by applying full aileron...
...Curtiss-Bleecker are mounted at right angles to each other, to rotate about a vertical axis. Each wing is equipped with a propeller, shaft-driven by a central Wasp motor mounted horizontally in the axis. Also to each wing is rigged a controllable "flipper," comparable to an aileron. Beneath the entire assembly is a tiny two-place gondola with nearly conventional controls, landing gear, rudder...
...Handley Page in his ship. Both planes are biplanes, the Tanager a three-place enclosed ship with Curtiss Challenger 176 h.p. radial air-cooled motor. In addition to its slots, it has wing flaps, which vary the camber, or apparent thickness of the wing, and (the main feature) floating ailerons, which automatically assume a position parallel to air currents made by the plane in flight. The pilot can work the ailerons by hand as well, to effect lateral control of the plane, likewise the wing flaps. The plane has been designed to be put into immediate production with few changes...