Flying Machines: Construction and Operation: A Practical Book Which Shows, in Illustrations, Working Plans and Text, How to Build and Navigate the Modern Airship.

"Defendants claim generally that the difference in construction of their apparatus causes the equilibrium or lateral balance to be maintained and its aerial movement

From Aeronautics.
Basis of the Wright Patents.
Moving the hand lever F, operates the small upright lever E. This raises the wire I, which connects with wire I, I, running to tops of the end stanchions. The strain depresses or warps both top and lower planes. Wires H, H, connected as shown by dotted line, operate automatically, as one end of the plane is depressed the other is elevated, as shown in drawing.

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secured upon an entirely different principle from that of complainant; the defendants' aeroplanes are curved, firmly attached to the stanchions and hence are incapable of twisting or turning in any direction; that the supplementary planes or so-called rudders are secured to the forward stanchion at the extreme lateral ends of the planes and are adjusted midway between the upper

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and lower planes with the margins extending beyond the edges; that in moving the supplementary planes equal and uniform angles of incidence are presented as distinguished from fluctuating angles of incidence. Such claimed functional effects, however, are strongly contradicted by the expert witness for complainant.

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