A "SAFETY" AEROPLANE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18420, 29 June 1925, Page 4

A "SAFETY" AEROPLANE.

An aeroplane which can do things no other aeroplane has ever done was seen in flight recently at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, South Farnborough, Hants, by ineinbors of the International Commission for Air Navigation, states tho aeronautical correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle.". This machine is designed to free aviation from one of its greatest perils. "When an aeroplane loses flying speed, and its wings cease to exercise their normal lift, the danger is that it may loss stability, and get into, a spin from #hich the pilot cannot extricate it before it strikes the ground. It is calculated, in fact, that 90 per cent, of" all flying fatalitiesfyiave been due to this. Flying-Officer Vincent took up this wonderful " safoty-planc," and amazed tho spectators by what he did with it. At one timo he seemed to be hovering almost motionless in the air, more like a helicopter than an aeroplane. Deliberately, above tho heads of the spectators, he -stalled*' his machine, causing its wings to lose their normal lift. Yet never once did ho lose control of tho 'plane, and never once did it show any sign of instability. All that it did, when stalled, was to lose altitude a little, and then pick up spoed. Of any tendency to spin there was never a sign.