AIRCRAFT BUILDING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 9

AIRCRAFT BUILDING.

GERMAN RESEARCH. (Times Cables). BERLIN, Sept. 19. The Times’s correspondent states:— “Treaty restrictions upon the construction of military aircraft in. Germany are profoundly influencing German research. Aircraft makers abroad aim at obtaining the maximum performance through increased enginepower. Germany aims at reducing the engine-power to the minimum and improving the aero-dynamic qualities of the machine. Hence the interest taken in the trials of a new tailless aeroplane, which have been pronounced as satisfactory. “The company have long been prominent in motorless flying and first tried out man-driven models. They have now built a machine driven by a ten horse-power pusher screw. The surfaces of the wing-tips give direction, elevation and lateral balance. “The machine climbed well and attained fifty miles per hour. It is an early example of the ‘flying wing’ aeroplane, toward which some firms are working, including Junkers, whose new all-metal monoplane, now being constructed, will have the engines and some passenger accommodation in the wings. “By thus modifying aircraft design the German designers hope to solve 'commercial aviation’s economic problem ”