Word: avro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aircraft exhibition. It was the biggest, most important air event of Canada's year, surpassing in extent and influence Montreal's exhibition, earlier in May. More than 70 planes showed at Winnipeg. Many competed in races and stunts. They carried hundreds of passengers. Makes included: de Havilland Moth, Avro Avian, Huff Daland, Lockheed Vega, American Eagle, Fokker, Junkers, Cessna, Fairchild, Ford, Waco, Hamilton, Douglas, Laird, Ryan, Travel Air, Monocoupe, Curtiss Robin...
Charles Lanier Lawrance, famed designer of the Wright Whirlwind motor (TIME, Feb. 13) was piloting an Avro-Avian above and about Curtiss Field. With him rode J. B. Taylor, vice president of Air Associates, Inc., owners of the plane. Violent air currents bowed the ship's head. It shivered, dived. As it came to earth it straightened out automatically, damaging only the landing gear. Experts attributed this salvation of the flyers to the slot...
...England: When an airplane is forced to too great an angle to the wind, it loses speed and lateral control, stalls. A spin, an accident, is likely to result. Officials of the British Air Ministry watched a pilot mount in an Avro biplane fitted with Handley Page slots. He twisted into the worst wind-angle, came almost to a standstill. But here the ailerons (auxiliary wingtips) interconnected with the slots (which provided an auxiliary passage for the air at the front portion of the wing) maintained control until the pilot resumed a normal progress...