What Was This ?

[hesham]

Hi,

can anyone ID this strange monoplane ?.

https://books.google.com.eg/books?i...ntcover&hl=ar&rview=1&lr=#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[avion ancien]

Perhaps its identity was 'explained in the text' which accompanied the photograph in Popular Aviation?

 

[Apophenia]

It is a Fairchild 22 fitted by NACA with a "narrow auxiliary airfoil" for flight comparisons with wind tunnel data on similar fixed wing slot arrangements.

Perhaps its identity was 'explained in the text' ...

The text only gives a hypothetical about Handley Page slots, to the effect that "Mr. Page" (sic) would have earned a pittance for his invention had he submitted it to the US Army at the time.