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...person of Handley F. Page*) last week announced that he had cut another step in the upward climb of the invisible precipices of the air. It is a niche which a slipping airplane can seize, grip firmly, and thus check its helpless spinning fall...
With a Luddington plane equipped somewhat as was Handley Page's, Clarence Chamberlin at Teterboro, last week kept an even keel when flying at only 15 miles a hour. He could take off with a short run of 60 feet; could land with only a 75-ft. roll...
...Managing director of Handley Page Ltd., British airplane firm. He described his invention as "the biggest thing in aviation since the patents of the Wright Brothers...
...Miss Ederle was attended by her trainer, L. de B. Handley; her father, some officials from the Women's Swimming Association, a few others. She slipped into the water through the mists of the dawn and found that the information regarding the tides was inaccurate. She had to fight the water for two hours. She smiled and struck out for open...
...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...