Show INVENTS DEVICE TO LAND PLANES ON skyscrapers greater creator safety in flying Is expected as the result of jenaine invention washington Washl neton A propel propeller ler reversing reversia g device it Is announced will permit an airplane to be brought to a stop within twice its own length after it touches the ground lies has been evolved by C francis jenkins of 0 washington announcing his bis new invention tor for which a patent lies lias been issued mr let jenkens akins said that it t would now be possible to establish air fields directly in cities and on the roots roofs of large buildings and eliminate the slow end and costly hauling of mall mail express and passengers from suburban borban su fields to their real destination the ilie reversing lever Is so geared tie be explained that it cannot be moved while the th plane Is 19 in the air then li alx lx the danger that chat the pilot might accidentally pull the lever when the airplane strikes the ground a spring automatically releases the safety guard on the revers ing inc control and the aviator Is f free ree to bring his plane to rest on an ground gro unil deck or sea almost as instant instantaneous a n e ou S ly as a bird ceases flight other benefits of the new dew device were outlined thus the general use of airplanes for suburb to city passenger service Is brought nearer it Is now possible to bring a seaplane to ret rest in the lee of a battleship saving both plane and pilot under storm conditions planes can approach landing fields at a greater rate of speed than before has been possible tragedies like the wrecking of the giant plane piano which tailed failed to rise in Us its attempted tempted Rt flight to parts paris will n all lie he safeguarded against with the new device the aviator when he realizes that flint fits takeoff take off la is a failure can top stop the plane |