SLOTTED WINGS.
NEW SAFETY DEVICE. (BI CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPIBIGHT.) (ATJSTBALIAH AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 17th, 5.5 p.m-) LONDON, November 17. Sir Samuel Hoare is to-day flying experimentally as passenger in a machine fitted with automatic safety wing slots, the invention of Handley-Page, the American rights of which have been sold to the United States Government for £220,000. The Blots are designed to give the pilot lateral control when flying slowly and when in such a position as would ordinarily mean stalling and the fatal spin to which is attributed approximately ninety per cent., of all aeroplane accidents.'
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19161, 18 November 1927, Page 11
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100SLOTTED WINGS. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19161, 18 November 1927, Page 11
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