Word: interceptor
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...meanwhile, Lieut. Alford J. Williams, famed speed flyer, began new efforts to secure a U. S. entry in the Schneider races by private subscription. In an article in Liberty magazine, Lieut. Williams declared that Britain's new speedy interceptor fighting planes, capable of 240 m. p. h., are adaptations of racing craft developed for the 1929 meet, which was won with a speed of 328.63 m. p. h. Liberty responded with an offer of $5,000 toward a fund of $300,000 needed to build and enter a U. S. craft...
...Frederick Handley Page invented his slot interceptor, last week announced as effectively tested. The interceptor is a second long narrow wing set just back of the slot at the main wing front. Like the auxiliary wing in front of it, it normally lies within the main wing surface. The interceptor is connected by bars to the aileron of its wing...
...flying at the stalling angle with the automatic slots open one wing drops, the pilot raises the aileron on the opposite side. The aileron movement raises its interceptor to a vertical position. The interceptor interrupts the air flowing through the slot before it. Thus the wing gets no air lift on that side and it drops until it is level with the previously dropping wing on the other side of the fuselage. Thus does the pilot have a good opportunity to prevent a spin and to pull his plane out of its stall...