AIRWORTHINESS.
British aviators excel in what Messrs Grahamo-White and Harrj Harper call “airworthiness.” A military pilot, when on active service, cannot afford to ho a n n f~ weather flier. He must ascend in winds as well as calms. Nothing save a. tearing gale, must keen him to the ground. Sir John French, m this regard. has paid our pilots a tribute that Ts comprehensive. They fly, he says, “in every kind of weather.” Such ail* worthiness is gained bv a scientific shaping and placing of the pianos ot the machine; by the fitting of stabilein" fins; and by a minute adjustment of”tho weights that have to be borne through the air—pilot engine, and fuel Nor must one forget m tins ability to fight the wind, the growing skill shown by tho airmen themselves. This enabled them on one occasion, to ascend in a wind so strong that, at a height of 3000 feet, it was blowing at a . velocity of nearly iirnoty miles an , hour.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4007, 13 August 1915, Page 3
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166AIRWORTHINESS. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4007, 13 August 1915, Page 3
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