Word: spinned
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...flying difficulty even slotted wings have not overcome: the falling of one wing and the consequent rising of the other. The plane tilts until it is liable to go into a spin...
...overcome the beginning of a spin the pilot must use his ailerons (small auxiliary wings fixed in the back edge of the wings). When one aileron rises, its opposite drops. That gives an opposed effect which ordinarily permits banking and turning from a straight level flying course. It also overcomes spins, if the pilot is alert and maneuvers quickly. But at the stalling angle the ailerons work sluggishly when...
...interrupts the air flowing through the slot before it. Thus the wing gets no air lift on that side and it drops until it is level with the previously dropping wing on the other side of the fuselage. Thus does the pilot have a good opportunity to prevent a spin and to pull his plane out of its stall...
...claimed for his plane. Only a Department of Commerce certificate warrants confidence in such claims. Most craft at Detroit last week did have such certification. As a safety factor practically every plane carried a stabilizing apparatus which might be fixed to prevent it from suddenly going into stall, tail spin, or nose dive. Otto W. Greene, gaunt Elyria, Ohio, inventor, showed an aero-dynamic automatic control. It consisted of a small vane projected from a wing of his model plane. As the plane tilted or teetered the vane lagged and activated levers which forced the controls automatically to pull...
...first full-sized freight engine to be built entirely in Rumania. On the day after Parliament opened His Majesty was lifted into the cab of the freight monster-with Queen Marie watchfully present-and actually clutched and tugged at the throttle with sufficient force to open it and spin the giant driving wheels. Precocious and forthright, King Mihai said to the steam engineer: "At home I have a 'lectric train...