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Show HAS CONTROL FOH JURPUNE Ocjden Man's Invention to Be Given Trials Before Government Gov-ernment Experts Harnessing gravity as a component piyt of an airplane, R K. Mltton. 23 jcurs old. of OKden, hno inven.cd a controlling system which ho claims will make an airplane fool-proof. .Mltton will depart within the next ten days for March Field, California, to Install his apparatus on ;t DsRavl-land DsRavl-land plane for the purpose of dem-on.str.itlng dem-on.str.itlng his device before government govern-ment flying -xm rtv The apparatus which Mltton has perfected la nothing more than a SSBtl iinl :i pendulum mounted on the '.toy stick" of an airplane The scat, mounted on a base which allows it to swing In every direction, displaces the nxnal thrr-e-stlck control. A heavy pendulum arrariKi'incnt, mounted beneath be-neath the scat, keeps the controls In place for level flying at such times as the operator ! not directing the plane by tilling the seat at various angles The principle involved is practically practical-ly the Same as thai ot tiding a blcydS Bj hanging the center of gravity, the plans swings to conform with the new Center When not held out of position, posi-tion, graviti keeps the pendulum -li-rectly beneath Lttd driver, and at Iho point of equlliblitun of the plane, in event that iho engine stops, itie nose of the plane tilts lownward In a yentle slant, the seat determining the degree of unglo at whlth the plane descends. .Milton and YV. L. Brawley arc Joint inventors of the controller. Several i'.ai aviators have seen the apparatus appar-atus und Mltton suites, .uc convinced or its practicability, The Utah Aero club has given it the endorsement ot that orgujuzal ion, and Lieutenant Colonel Col-onel Dickson, who was recently In ,-den, ,-den, was favorably Impressed iflth Uia idea, it is wild, and offered to ass. si the inventor In lining a demonstration before the government. Steps arc now under vav to form an incur po. a I Ion fur ilv. pu'pwe ol manufacturing una disposing of articles turned out undi r this, nnd other Inventions of uttton, a 1 1 yi WhlOh are protected by patents .Mltton will lo president .i Mie corporation cor-poration Brawley will be first vice president and other officers will be as follows: It. L. Horspool, seeona vice president; rtojlil J. Douglas, sec-retary sec-retary and treasurer, G. H. Abbott, general manager The new controlling apparatus will be of no use in trick ililnft. hq claims, but In e vent of the machlnv going Into In-to a tail-spin. 01 a nos div, will st-i the machine right. .Milton has completed adealgn for an airplane which, he said, this morn-knft morn-knft will probably be manufactured in this cily. n r |