Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Despite all the progress in long-range radio aids to aerial navigation, a good navigator likes best to find where in the world he is by celestial star sights, a process that involves only himself, his sextant and the heavenly bodies. Last week New York's Kollsman Instrument Corp. gave the ancient science of celestial navigation a modern twist, announced a new sextant that, once preset, will seek out the proper star or planet, average a series of sights, and flash its readings by remote control to the navigator. With a three-star fix, he can pinpoint the position...
Somehow, the public has got to know that they [the military] are destroying Omni-DME and replacing it with a completely unproved new system." Knobs & Dials. The two navigation systems are more notable for their likeness than their difference. Both are rhotheta systems;* both use simple dials on the instrument panel to show direction and distance to destination. Omni-DME is slightly more accurate for distance; Tacan is slightly better on direction. CAA adopted Omni in 1948, and began to install sending stations at airports to replace the radio ranges that told a pilot whether he was to the right...
...whiz about the campus in sports cars at velocities somewhat under the speed of sound, raise goldfish, beat out lowdown boogie on a piano or saw a 'cello in a community string quartet. One eminent theoretical physicist turned up, ragged and happy as a native, whacking a percussion instrument in a Rio street band...
Some of the women feel the same way. "The harp is a glamorous instrument," said one. "It's so curvy, and you can be so graceful when you play it." Others were more practical: "It's a sound investment -costs as much as a Cadillac but doesn't depreciate as fast. It's an instrument you can get your money back on-very much, in demand for weddings and funerals...
...Mills. Inc., reported on a new device designed to help end much of the uncertainty about crashes due to air failure: a flight recorder, set in the cockpit, that transcribes the plane's speed, direction, altitude and vertical acceleration. Designed to withstand shock as well as fire, the instrument will keep operating ten minutes after engine failure, furnish possible clues to what happened in the crash. Moreover, used in normal safe trips, the recorder's data will provide a valuable added record of pilot performance and flight irregularities...