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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C.
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FLYING PLATFORM—PaIo Alto, Calif.—Test Pilot Phil
Johnson takes off in the Navy’s experimental helicopter, if
you’ll pardon the expression. Pilot directs horizontal flight
by shifting his weight.—U. S. Navy Photo.
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Navy Test Pilot Reports
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 11
(A 1 ).—The test pilot who first took
off in a radically new wingless
“flying platform” says anyone
who can walk can fly it.
"You just lean the way you
want it to go,” said Test Pilot
Phil A. Johnston about the "re
search tool” developed by Hiller
Helicopters of Palo Alto for the
Office of Naval Research.
"I’d let my kids fly it. It’s no
trick at all," Mr. Johnston said.
Mr. Johnston’s first flight was
January IS in the weird new ma
chine, which looks like a flying
manhole cover with guard rails.
It is a literal flying saucer.
Mr. Hiller’s development to
date, said the Office of Naval
Research in the first disclosure
of the new craft, “definitely has
established the feasibility of
radically simplified flight.”
The “flying platform” works by
a downward thrusting air stream
generated by two counter rotat
ing propellers. They produce
balancing force, like a gyroscope.
Two ducted fans, powered by
two small engines producing to
gether less than 100 horsepower,
suck in air through holes in the
top of the platform. The fans
thrust air out of the bottom of
the platform with great force.
The takeoff is as simple as
that.
Ascent is controlled by throttle.
TURK DIES AT 128;
TOOK NO HOT BATHS
ANDSTAYEDONDIET
MADRIN, Turkey, April
11 (fP). —lsa Kerem, a char
coal seller who claimed he
was 128 years old. died
today.
Kerem said he washed
only in cold water and sub
sisted mainly on a diet of
curdled milk, soup, beans
and tomatoes.
Married twice, he once
said of women: “I love
them more than anything
else in the world. My soul
is under their feet.”
You steer by leaning the way
you want to go.
What happens if the engines
quit, however, is an obvious prob
lem, too. Without the lifting air
thrust, you drop like a brick.
Test flights so far have been
little more than eight feet off
the ground at the Hiller plant’s
testing field.
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