DARING EXPERIMENT
NEW YORK, Nov. 30. Herbert Eischier, ehief test pilot oi the Curtis Wright Corporation, made the iirst test- of ' 1 backing-up ' ' an aeroplane in flight by simultaneously reversing all four propellers of a Douglas transport plane. The test was nmde at 12,000 feet when the aircraft was flying vat 15ur miles an hour. The pilot said the reversing of the ]propellers reduced tio aircraft 's speed rapidly and demonstrated that this operation would faeilitate forced landings. The reversing of all the propellers simultaneously had not been tried pi^viously, for fear the aircraft would stall and erash.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 December 1947, Page 3
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98DARING EXPERIMENT Chronicle (Levin), 2 December 1947, Page 3
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