gyropilot

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The gyropilot is so expert that it gives passengers a smoother ride than can the pilot himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Greatest refinement of all is the gyropilot, which is standard on most airline transports.

From Time Magazine Archive

A pioneer of air instruments and of blind flying, Lawrence Sperry invented such indispensable aids to flight as the gyropilot, bank & turn indicator, early efficient parachute.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gyropilot acts much more quickly and holds a course more steadily than a human pilot can.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eagerly, he punched the figures for the heading onto a magnetized wire that would be fed into the gyropilot.

From Deepfreeze by Locke, Robert Donald