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"Gentlemen," he said, "I have reconsidered my refusal to go to the Copan valley after the idol of gold. I'm going with you!" "Good!" cried Professor Bumper. "Fine!" ejaculated Mr. Damon. "Bless my time-table! I thought you'd come around, Tom Swift." "But what about your stabilizer?" asked Ned. "I was just talking to my father about it," the young inventor replied.
"I'm going to tilt the craft suddenly at an angle that would turn her over if it were not for the stabilizer," was the answer. Dick looked at the barograph, or height-recording gage. It registered thirty-eight hundred feet. They had gone up a considerable distance in making their experiments.
"But she'll be speedy for all of that, for the engine will be very powerful." "Will she be safe?" asked Dick. "As safe as any airship. I am going to incorporate in her my gyroscope equilibrizer, or stabilizer, as you suggested." "Oh, yes, I want that!" said Dick, in a decided tone. "It is very good of you to allow me to demonstrate my patent on your craft," the inventor said.
STABILITY AND STABILIZATION. These terms constantly appear in describing machines and their operations. If the flying structure, whatever it may be, has means whereby it is kept from rocking from side to side, it has stability, which is usually designated as lateral stability. The mechanism for doing this is called a stabilizer.
I guess we'll call it an accident." "But it must have been in the tank for some time," argued Larry Dexter, "and yet it only stopped up the pipe a little while ago." "It was probably floating around in the tank, doing no damage in particular," explained Mr. Vardon. "Then, when we made the ship tilt that way, to test the stabilizer, the gasolene shifted, and the waste was flushed into the pipe.
I can't make him out, but that's just the shape of his airship, I can tell by the mercury stabilizer Larson has put on." "Well, it looks as if we'd have a race," observed Mr. Vardon. "He sure is speeding on," mused Dick. "But he may be away behind his schedule," put in Larry. "That won't make any difference," the young millionaire said.
So he was going to see the man who had come between him and every object he had striven for... And he did not know why. He followed impulse, as he was prone to follow impulse. Restraints were not for him; he was a thinker, he believed, and after his fashion he WAS a thinker.... But his mind was equipped with no stabilizer.
For, in spite of the fact that they were in the midst of danger, they were fairly comfortable. True the aircraft was tilted upward, for she was still climbing on a steep slant, but they had gotten used to this. The gyroscope stabilizer prevented any rolling from side to side. "Maybe Grit is hungry, and that's what's bothering him," said Dick, as he tossed the dog a bit of canned chicken.
You see the European war has called for the use of a large number of aeroplanes, and as the pilots of them frequently have to fight, and so can not give their whole attention to the machines, some form of automatic stabilizer is needed to prevent them turning turtle, or going off at a wrong tangent. "So I have been working out a sort of modified gyroscope, and it seems to answer the purpose.
She's a bit out of control, but the stabilizer will keep her on a level keel. Good thing we installed it." "You're right!" said Jackson. Now they were falling earthward with great rapidity, but, thanks to the gyroscope stabilizer, the "side-slipping," than which there is no motion more dreaded by an aviator, had nearly ceased.
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