Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock on Tuesday, luncheon will be served to the Overseers, visiting committees, and the faculty in the inner lobby and first floor corridor of the west wing of Langdell Hall. After luncheon, the visiting committee and the Overseers will inspect the building. On Tuesday evening the Law School visiting committee will give a dinner at the Harvard Club for the members of the Law School Faculty. The exercises in Langdell Hall will close the official two day meeting of the Overseers...
SECONDS ANDOVER Crotty, c.f. c.f., Alien O'Neil, 2b. lb., Jackson Gilmor, 1.f. 1.f., Mayer Donaldson, 1b. 2b., Wing Sims, c. r.f., Batchelder Huxtable, s.s. s.s., Mettler Davis, p. 3b., Kimball Ketchum, 3b. c., Rogers Goggin, r.f. p., Brown...
...flying difficulty even slotted wings have not overcome: the falling of one wing and the consequent rising of the other. The plane tilts until it is liable to go into a spin...
...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...