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AIRCRAFT AUTOPILOT MECHANISM
The space inside housing 1 of the gyroscope unit, mounted on the airplane, is evacuated, the vacuum being produced by vacuum pump 2. The stream of air admitted through port a drives the rotor of gyroscope 3, which has a vertical axis. Rigidly attached to the gyroscope is a shutter (not shown) approaching either of two nozzles 4 to which air is delivered that is drawn in through capillary inlets d …
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- Europeana
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- image
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- Europeana
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- image
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- dmg:26916023
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- Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
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- Europe
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First time published on Europeana
- 2013-11-25T17:57:14.048Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2013-11-25T17:57:14.048Z