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Digging up a mechanical, electronic beauty

Posted: 12 Mar 2009  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: Sperry Systems Flight  aircraft gyro  gyro Boeing 747 

[Summary of tips] The next time you're on a plane, here's something to take your mind off the unhappy baby in row 34 or the food cart that just ran over your foot—gyros! Used for inertial navigation and basic input to aircraft instrumentation of all sorts, the gyros are a critical aspect to flight and flight automation. But as with all for......
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