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8 Thursday Morning                                           Los Angeles

Light Plane Idea Praised

Design Upsets Old Ideas

Slipstream Force Used to Provide Lift, Flying and Landing Prowess 

'Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.

Providence (R. I.) May 20.
(Exclusive)-A "flivver" plane that is light, safe, easily handled and yet does not fall into the freak class has been developed here by two former British Air Ministry experts who came to America to find "pay dirt" for their ideas after developing a submarine-plane and other famous novelties for the British.

After more than twenty years of experimentation, they believe they have found "it" in airplanes - the capacity to take off and land as slowly as an autogiro and to perform in the air like a conventional plane.

Secret Disclosed

The secret, now that it has been discovered, seems simple - as simple as wing warping seemed after the Wrights had disclosed the original secret of heavier-than-air flight. It is simply the utilization of the slip stream force, usually wasted, to provide additional lift in getting off the ground, staying up and getting down again.

Happily, the secret has been developed beyond the paper era. In a recent demonstration, the craft (which is strictly conventional in appearance) established what its sponsors called world records for speed range, slow flight, angle of descent, take off and landing runs.

Officials Amazed

The show amazed a host of Eastern States' aviation officials here for a regional conference. The plane's plane's performance drew the praise of such experts as Igot I. Sikorsky, Clipper ship designer and Harold I. June, pilot of two Byrd expeditions to Antarctica.

A simple design feature is the answer to the "dragonfly," as the new plane has been christened. Its two motors are tilted downward 10 deg. from its horizontal axis. Since it is a biplane, this allows the slipstream to be utilized to provide "lift" which is ordinarily wasted.

Advantages Cited

The result is that 65 per cent of the plane's weight is "off the ground" befire ut moves forward a single foot on the take off. A similar advantage in landing gives the craft ability to come to earth almost without any forward speed. Yet, in the air, the ship behaves like a conventional airplane. 
Behind the plane lies many a shattered dream, many a headache for its designers, Capt. Goodman-Crouch, formerly of the British Air Ministry, and Harold Bolas, formerly of the Royal aircraft factory at Farnsborough, where his job was to investigate the multitudinous designs from inventors who deluged the British government with aircraft ideas during the World War.

Famed Airmen Meet Noted Woman Flyer
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When airmen meet a premiere air woman! Col. Roscoe Turner, left, and Clyde Pangborn, co-pilots in the London-Melbourne air derby last year and avowed seekers after two new distance records, are shown chatting with Lady Grace Drummond-Hay at the Junior Chamber of Commerce luncheon. They were guests of honor. Associated Press photo

AIR RACES WILL BE HELD HERE
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tinental and land-plane speed records at the September meeting.
  Present at the session yesterday which crystallized sentiment in support of the races were representatives of the Municipal Airport, the Sheriff's Aero Squadron, the City Council, the aeronautical division of the Chamber of Commerce, the Service Club, the American Legion, the Women's International Aeronautical Association and the Hotel Association of Los Angeles.
  As a closing statement, Henderson prophesied that the 1936 edition of the National Air Races will surpass the Los Angeles-sponsored meets of 1928 and 1933.

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