TAIL FIRST
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STRANGE NEW FOKKER 'PLANE WHICH CANNOT CRASH STEERED LIKE MOTOR-CAR
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Rec. Nov. 6, 11 p.m. LONDON, Friday. "It is the strangest machine have ever been in," said the Hon. Mrs Victor Bruce, who flew from Amsterdam to Hamworth as a passenger in the Fokker "Wullf" tail first monoplane. "The machine is steered with a wheel like a car and it seemed as though we were flying backwards. It can neither stall nor go into a spin. If we had lost flying speed we would have simply subsided to earth," she said. The machine will he tested by British experts.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 65, 7 November 1931, Page 3
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