Show I I 1 il I Dawn Damon of f New vi i Era 11 I Lr r 1 f J r. r J. J iH t t LG J t d' d yr q lr N N. N E E. E A A A. Staff Special LONDON Nov 13 The The new Handley- Handley Page airplane wing opens up another erain era ern eraIn In aviation It makes flying as safe sate as asIt asIt ast i It t is possible to make it It Is s as big a Jump j ump forward as was the solving of the problem of lateral balance by the D Brothers Broth Broth- others oth- oth ers Wright rIght at Kitty Hawk When the secret of the Page Page mystery machine was divulged at the Cricklewood aerodrome the experts were amazed at its revolutionary character The new wing is built somewhat on the theUnes l Unes ines of the hutterS shutters in a blind There are slots right through the plane connecting the upper and lower surfaces These slots virtually convert a single sing wing into a number of wings and increase its lifting power by two or three times Two De Haviland airplanes were employed em em- to demonstrate the invention One machine was fitted the appliance The other was not The difference In the behavior of the two was extraordinary Machine No 1 took look off ocr in under twenty twenty ty yards and climbed almost straight Into the air Machine No 2 took over seventy yards to leave the ground and its small climb in comparison with the other was evident even to the uninitiated |