Word: gyros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rachal to price it low; by 1959, the company was turning out 180 of the 150-m.p.h. craft a year. The following year, Rachal switched to an all-metal plane, the single-engine Mark 21. The rakishly styled plane grew more popular with the addition in 1964 of a gyro-driven control system that automatically keeps the plane on course without constant pilot corrections...
...axis. To move backwards, he will pull back on the left control knob and activate forward-firing thrusters. If an astronaut has to use both hands for other jobs, he will move into the proper atti tude, then throw a stabilizer switch and use his AMU's gyro-controlled stabilizer system to "park" in space...
...part of it and it's part of me." Ford Motor Co.'s Don Frey worked closely with Clark at Indianapolis, calls him "the epitome" of a racing driver. "His greatest asset," says Frey, "is his imperturbability. When he was five or ten years old, a gyro began spinning somewhere inside him and he became his own standard maker. He's inner-directed. He lives in his own world...
...word commands are "X," "Y" and "Z," which call for motion in one of three directions. The astronaut can also say "stop," to end whatever action is going on, or "cage" to shut down the whole apparatus. "Stop-plus" and "stop-minus" might be used to switch on the gyro apparatus that keeps his attitude stabilized within two different degrees of accuracy...
...give the 171-ton Haystack its phenomenal accuracy required miracles of designed precision. The huge aluminum antenna floats, for instance, on a film of oil not much thicker than a human hair, moves on a 30-ton bearing with the ease of a ship's gyro. The oil bearing eliminates what engineers call "stiction," for static friction, enables the antenna to rotate through more than three degrees of arc in less than one second, make a complete 180-degree about-face in less than one minute. With such agility, Haystack can track anything that can be tossed into space...