SLOTTED WING DEVICE

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 229, 27 September 1928, Page 7

SLOTTED WING DEVICE

Air Ministry Issues General Instruction To Pilots.

A FACTOR OP SAFETY.

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, September 20.

The Air Ministry has issued a general instruction to pilots on the proper use of the Handley-Page slotted wing device, which is regarded as one of the most valuable aids to safety in flying ever invented.

The Minister says the object of the slots is to improve the factor of safety by giving increased control when aircraft in an emergency are brought below their minimum flying speed. Therefore, unless all slotted aircraft are normally flown, exactly as if they had no slots, this additional margin of safety is lost.

It is particularly emphasised as a criterion of good piloting that in normal flying the slots should never become open. That should only occur in emergencies.

ATLANTIC FLYER.

GERMAN ON FLIGHT TO TOKYO. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) DELHI, September 26.

Baron von Huenefeld, the German airman, who flew from Ireland to Labrador with Herr Koehl and Major Fitzmaurice in April, is now on a flight to Tokyo. He arrived yesterday at Karachi from the Persian Gulf.