SAFE FLYING
IMPROVEMENTS IN AEROPLANES
MACHINES KEPT STABLE BY GYROSCOPES
London, January 3.
The recent tendency in aeroplane safety devices tending to turn the pilot into something in the nature oi a mere machine minder is exemplified in the • newest Imperial Airwavs . express, a machine specially designed for night flying. It is fitted with an improved gyroscopic mechanism not only controlling the action of the rudder, but automatically keeping the machine stable and in the right’ course.
The pilot siniplv regulates the speed of the engines and the height of the craft.—Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 85, 5 January 1926, Page 7
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