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Flying Officer Clouston and Mrs. Kirby Green reached Croydon Photo on Nov. 20 after their record fight to the Cape and back. shows Flying Officer Clouston and Mrs. Kirby Green getting out of their plane on arrival at Croydon. (Fox Copyright By Air Mail).

ITALY TRIES OUT FLEXIBLE WINGS ON PLANE

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An airplane wing flexible like the Antonio's plane was given a try- wing of a bird and patented five out some years ago in England. It years ago in Washington, is being gave excelent performance until given a tryout by the Italian air one day when it was wrecked. Since force.

then he has refined his plans. Under the eyes of the investor, He says the plane will rise 3,000 Ugo Antonio, of Pisa, an experimen-feet in 18 minutes, can change its tal plane is under construction at velocity from 300 to 100 mph in the enormous "air city" of Guidonia, six seconds by varying the curva- near Rome.

ture of the wing, can land -practi- Antonio's airplane is a combina- cally within its own length and can tion of the flexible wing idea and an rise almost vertically. invention consisting of an automati-Antonio has been working on his aeronautical îrvestions cally flexible section of the wing various which varies its curvature according since 1907, when he obtained his to the speed of the plane and acts, first patent in Germany. He is

stabilizer

keen student of the principles of bird fight

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GERMAN PLANE FLIES BACKWARDS!

The helicopter which Captain Reitsch flew recently from Stendal to Berlin, a distance of 65 miles, de- lighted and astonished a large crowd at Templehof aerodrome by flying. backwards, says the Berlin corres- pondent of "The Times

It rose straight off the ground, hung poised in the air for some minutes, then reversed and landed as slowly and easily as a bird.

A German newspaper describes the machine as looking like a cross between a windmill and a bicycle.

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