Word: camber
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...wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, the new bomber is of three-ply all-metal construction. It is powered with four 800-h.p. Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasps-first Army or Navy craft to have more than three motors. The motors are two to a side, streamlined into the high- camber cantilever wing. While the Boeing's fuselage is designed to carry bomb-racks, it would need but slight modification to become a commercial airliner...
...expected to file counteraction claiming infringement of six basic patents by 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...
...body with graceful curving wings. Bonney followed the bird principle, abandoned the aileron, or balancing contrivance which airplane designers have always considered an essential feature of stability in the air. His plane had new features: an expanding and contracting tail, like a blackbird's, for varying loads; variable camber in the wings, so that they could flatten out like a gull's when flying level; a varying angle of incidence to its wings, so that they could turn sideways into the wind on landing, and let him drop onto a landing field "no bigger than a handkerchief...
...Soldier"; songs by a young German modernist, Hindemith and above all, the very famous work for reciting voice and instruments, "Dierrot Lunaire" by Arnold Schoenberg, which has created a sensation in other cities where the movement has been stirring. The concert is organized under the auspices of the Camber Music Society of Boston and the Boston Flute Players Club. The Vagabond has been perhaps too greatly influenced by the expressions of prominent critics who have favored the movement, but beyond the critics and their arguments, the evening has its attractions...
...ordered a new eight-oared shell from George Sims & Sons, of Putney, London, the famous English boat-builders. The shell cost about $800. Her lines are identical with those of last year's eight, which differed from the boat used in 1910 only in a slight change in the camber, or longitudinal curve of the bottom...