"BABY" PLANES

Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 3

"BABY" PLANES

MOTOR CYCLES OF THE AIR Willi dilicreutialion of Hying machines into ninuiib types, "baby'’ planes in numbers are appearing on the scene, cheap to buy, ami easily managed (says the San Francisco 'Chronicle'). 01 'ifmuit. simplicity is an aeroplane newly patent.'d by .Henry .M a that, of San Francis, o, which is in eilect an aero-motor cycle, running on wheels set landeimvi'e. The frame is a simple arrangement of tubes, two ol which, parallel to each other, form the chassis. Connected to the so tubes is a small supporting piano at the roar. The relatively largo limit wing is held in a tubular Iranij lormccl of two U-sbaped halves which are (listened together by several (damps and | ropcrly maced, fho two length-wisc tubes mentioned have secured to their front ends irnniuons through whnii passes a horizontal shall. Coiled oi the ends of this shaft arc springs, wound opposite ways, and connected io the trunnions, so that the shaft can be lotatcd. The front wing is braced by cables connected to Ihe ends < f the crossdiaft. which (-acries a lurk' that holds Hie, front wheel. Foot rests are provided at the sides of the Fork. Hie turning of which is controlled by handle liars in the manner of a bicycle. A motor < ycle engine mounted on the frame of" the machine carries the propeller directly ni front of the a\ialor. In the air. be steers with the handle bars, winch turn the propeller the right or flic left. By boaring down or up on Hie handle bars against the feiisiou ol the springs he. partly rotates the cro-s-sha 11. thereby giving (In; propeller an upward or downward null, for ascent or descent. When the machine is not wanted lor m.c. the V-shaped halves of the large Iniuli wing arc released from the el am lis and folded together, making it practicable to house the plane m a small building.