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1910 - 0815.PDF
OCTOBER 8, 1910. [/QGHT] THE NEALE BIPLANE. A NEW PRINCIPLE OF CONTROL DESIGNED TO AVOID THE WRIGHTS' PATENTS. THOSE who have paid the merest superficial attention to the satisfactory in their operation, the horizontal balancers were duly principles of modern aeroplane control are aware that lateral abandoned, and the machine now flies with the mechanism for stability is maintained either by twisting the wings or by using operating them disconnected. " Flight " Copyright. Side view of the Neale biplane. independent horizontal planes (ailerons) as balancers. Those who have interested themselves still more deeply in the subject are probably also aware that the principle of wing warping constitutes one of the great claims in the Wright patent, and that, moreover, the Wright brothers regard machines fitted with any form of horizontal balancers to be infringements of their claim. It should not therefore be difficult for anyone to appreciate the significant importance of a system of control that is fundamentally different to this standard practice of the day. The Neale biplane, with which, as our readers know, experiments have for a long time been con ducted on the Brooklands flying ground, is a machine that certainly does embody a method of control that is, so far as we are aware, quite original, and there is little doubt it constitutes one of the most interesting developments in aeroplane construction that is at present on trial. This machine is steered and balanced by movable vertical planes that are hinged to the outermost forward struts of the main planes, and these vertical planes, in conjunction with the fore and aft elevators, constitute the sole controlling organs. Balancing planes were originally fitted to the trailing edges of the upper main plane as a precaution during the initial stages of experiment; but the vertical planes having been found to be entirely " Flight" Copyright. Front view of the Neale biplane. •TURNING POSITION " Flight" Copyright. Diagrams illustrating the principle of control on the Neale biplane. Fig. 1 shows a slight deflection of one of the screen rudders for steering. Fig, 2 illustrates the screen put hard over for balancing. I C 2
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