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Three Pennsylvania crews had their first spin on the Charles yesterday at 12.30 o'clock in preparation for the Harvard-Cornell-Pennsylvania-M. I. T. regatta tomorrow. The Red and Blue eights took the water again at 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon, and went over the course for the first time...
...England: When an airplane is forced to too great an angle to the wind, it loses speed and lateral control, stalls. A spin, an accident, is likely to result. Officials of the British Air Ministry watched a pilot mount in an Avro biplane fitted with Handley Page slots. He twisted into the worst wind-angle, came almost to a standstill. But here the ailerons (auxiliary wingtips) interconnected with the slots (which provided an auxiliary passage for the air at the front portion of the wing) maintained control until the pilot resumed a normal progress...
...University crew yesterday reverted to the regular shell after the trial spin of the day before in its new and bilious colored craft. A temporary change in the seating was made when J. M. Gates '27 replaced C. O. D. Iselin '26 at No. 2 for yesterday's practice...
Coach Stevens expressed satisfaction with the result of the brief trial spin yesterday afternoon. With the exception of seat four, the rigging was too low for all the oarsmen in the new boat and it was too high for Gates at seat four. There is still considerable work to be done on the new boat, and it is not likely that it will be launched again before another week or ten days...
Favorable weather conditions yesterday caused all the coaches to order long rows for their respective crews, the majority of the shells heading in the direction of the basin. Both the Second and Third University eights accompanied Crew X in its spin in the new shell. There has been no change in the seating order of men in these boats since the promotion of Darlington to the first boat on March...