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The Aeroplane

Patented: History of Inventions

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Controlling the Wings of an Airplane

In 19 o two, that was one of their more ingenious developments. So the wings, or banking, they came up with this concept called differential lift. Brothers reasoned if we could control the angle of attack on either side of the airplane, in other words, if i could make the angle of Attack higher on one side than the other, i could get more lift on that side. And then they could control that quite effectively with a series of cables and pulleys and and control the roll of the airplane.

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