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Old July 16th 10, 03:28 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Mitchell Holman[_5_]
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Ken Murphy wrote in
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On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:13:07 +0200, DAN wrote:

The airfoil is a "Wobble Plate Stabilizer" which consisted of a small
wing mounted on and behind the non-rotating portion of the wobble
plate and served primarily as a means of trimming the inherent control
forces and damping any displacements occurring during flight.

quoted from http://www.uscg.mil/history/webaircr...orsky_HO3S.pdf

Ken


Thanks for the update.