Successful trial flights between Paris and Amsterdam of a new stabilizing device for aeroplanes indicate that another remarkable advance has been made in the direction of securing greater safety for aerie] transports. The new stabilizer, which is the invention of M. Georges Aveline, himself a practical aviator, consists of two distinct appliances, of which one is used to control the wings and the other the rudder. It is claimed for the new invention that if the aeroplane enters a fog or thick clouds and is for any reason red' from its right course, the stabilizer at once comes into play and automatically brings back the machine to its proper line of flight.
For use during night flying there is an arrangement of lines of tiny electric lights, the change in levels of which at once indicates to the pilot who has lost sight of his horizon whether he is on an even keel or otherwise. The whole apparatus is reported to be very simply constructed and easy to instal, while it in no way hampers the pilot. It weights about three-quarters of a hundredweight.
The "Ziberte" states that the pilot conducted! a machine carrying several passengers and fitted with the new appliances from Paris to) Amsterdam recently. The success of the automatic stabilizer was such that the pilot had no occasion to touch the steering apparatus of the aeroplane throughout: the entire journey.
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