Necessity for increasing safety in flight of gliders has led to development of brake surface arrangement with which highly satisfactory results were obtained; brake valve has now been applied experimentally to Focke Wulf power airplane, with view to reducing diving speed; present status of vertical dive brakes for both types of airplanes discussed.
DFS vertical dive brakes on airplanes and gliders
DFS-Sturzflugbremsen an Segel- und Motorflugzeugen
Deutsche Luftfahrtforschung -- Jahrbuch ; p I-313-I-318
1938
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