SLOTTED WINGS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19163, 21 November 1927, Page 9

SLOTTED WINGS.

SUCCESSFUL TEST. SIR SAMUEL HOARE IMPRESSED. (BT CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGHT.) (AUBTBALIIH AN» K.Z. CABLB ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 20th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 19. Sir Samuel Hoare was most impressed with the flight of the army aeroplane which is fitted with slotted wings. The test was most thrilling. The machine did safely all things it should not have done, including some which formerly meant certain death. Sir Samuel Hoare said it was gratifying that from the first to last this British contribution to aviation success was the result of private and official cooperation. The Air Ministry ordered all official aircraft to be fitted with slotted wings, except the single-fighter class, for which adaptation may be possible later. [A message received a few days ago said that Sir Samuel Hoare (Secretary for Air) was to fly experimentally as passenger in a machine fitted with automatic safety wing slots, the invention of Handley-Page, -the American rights of which had been sold to the United States Government for £220,000. The slots were 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.