Description of automatic control patented in Germany; it is claimed that airplane flies much steadier while automatically controlled than while controlled by pilot; turning relay attached to elevators may be also manipulated by anyone in cabin or plane; two gyroscopes are mounted in one frame, each gyroscope having freedom of precession in one plane only and, being driven by 333-cycle three-phase current, rotate in opposite directions at speed of 20,000 r.p.m.
Automatic airplane control
Aviation Eng
Aviation Engineering ; 2 , n 11 ; p 27-28
1929
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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