Gyroscopic instruments are critical for IFR flight, and their failure in IMC is a serious, disorienting emergency contrasting their auxiliary role in VFR. Detecting instrument failures requires ...

It shouldnt come as a surprise to learn that piston-powered airplanes have a number of limitations on their suitability for all-weather operations. Pilots-and Aviation Safety readers-have been known ...

Entomologists and mechanical engineers ordinarily have little to do with one another. The first study bugs; the second design machinery. But last week the Sperry Gyroscope Co., designers of highbrow ...