Word: whatsits
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Even more radical in design than the Hammond is the tailless plane developed in California by an oldtime test pilot named Waldo Deane Waterman. Tall, sandy-haired, pipe-smoking Inventor Waterman, previously known for his experiments with a low-wing tailless monoplane called the Waterman Whatsit, has produced as his new model a high-wing ship called the Arrowplane. This highly unconventional design features V-shaped wings which sweep back to tapering tips on which are mounted vertical rudder fins. The ailerons are so rigged that they also serve as elevators, thus simplifying control. The chunky two-place cabin...