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...Closet. The Instrumentation Laboratory's most important technological advance in building the jam-proof navigational system was the development of the Hermetic Integrating Gyro (HIG), a 3-in. long package containing a gyroscope spinning at 12,000 r.p.m. in an inner cylinder pivoted on virtually friction-free bearings and floated in a heavy liquid. Three HIGs -one to "memorize" each coordinate of a point'on an imaginary star line at take-off -and three accelerometers (to measure change of speed in each direction) are fixed to a gimbals-mounted, free-swinging platform unaffected by changes in the plane...
Died. Hannibal Choate Ford, 77, noted engineer-inventor, who helped the late Elmer Sperry perfect the Gyro-Compass (1911), during and after World War I developed the world's first mechanical control-computer for naval gunfire; of arteriosclerosis; in Kings Point...
British carriers are to be equipped with big curved mirrors that face aft from the end of the landing runway (see diagram). The mirror is mounted like the mirror of a dressing table, so that a gyro stabilizer can keep it at the proper angle no matter how much the carrier may be pitching. On each side of it are horizontal rows of colored lights. Strong white lights shine into it from near the carrier's stern...
...Some ten miles to the south he spotted a towering thunderhead. Rain poured from its base, and lightning played around the high-riding, anvil-headed cloud. Sure that it would contain powerful updrafts, Comte headed for it. As he maneuvered under its base, he switched on his electrically driven gyro-horizon...
...parachute. When the lifeboat hits the water, a radio operator in the aircraft starts the boat's engine by remote control, then steers it toward the rafts or swimmers. Once on board, the survivors can talk with the plane over a two-way radio. The operator sets their gyro compass on a course that will take them to the nearest land. The boat has fuel for 800 miles; more fuel and water can be dropped. Early in 1952, says the Air Force, all its A-3 lifeboats will be equipped as radio-controlled taxis...