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...Chance Vought case would have meant collection of fabulous damages from U. S aviation, as every plane has joystick control. Last week a Federal judge in Brook lyn dismissed the Esnault-Pelterie suit Opinion: "There certainly was no novelty in the use of a well-known device, the lever...
...Shaw rarely lived within his means. Once, instead of buying a cheap bowler he paid the top price for a top hat, had to wear it so long that "in its last days it had to be worn tail foremost, as the front rim had become too limp to lever the hat off successfully when he had to salute a lady...
...When the plane touched water after being lowered from the deck of the Hermes, the four-knot current swept the plane sidewise and tipped it until one wing went under and the plane tilted to about 90°. Mrs. Lindbergh attempted by pressing a lever to inflate a collapsed rubber life belt she was wearing. The belt failed to inflate and, appearing quite unperturbed, she followed the instructions of Colonel Lindbergh and dove into the water. . . ." (Consul General Walter Adams to the U. S. State Department...
...with one of the Wright brothers, Orville or Wilbur, you could never fly with the other. Wilbur always sat in the left of the two seats in the front of their flimsy craft; Orville on the right. If you went up with Wilbur, you learned to work a lever at your right hand, to make the plane go up or down. Wilbur had one like it at his left. A third lever between the seats "warped" the wings, made the plane bank and, by a twist of the wrist, swung the rudder. Once you learned that, there...
...single control stick or "joystick" (named, by doubtful legend, after one Joyce) is a lever which the pilot moves fore & aft to nose the plane down or up; side to side to make the plane bank. All standard planes are operated by joystick, except transports and heavy cabin planes which have Deperdussin ("Dep"). (All planes are steered left & right by pedals.) In Washington last week the U. S. Court of Claims heard arguments of a Frenchman who alleges that every joystick built in the U. S. is an infringement on his patents...