instrument board
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Signals on the instrument board will tell the pilot whether the block ahead is clear and whether the next plane behind him is treading on his tail.
From Time Magazine Archive
An earth inductor compass, a magnetic compass on the conventional instrument board and maps were his navigating facilities.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a white light flamed to full intensity on the instrument board of Eastern Air Lines Trip 21�New York to Brownsville�slim, 30-year-old Pilot Jim Perry knew that below him in the night was Stone Mountain.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they never look at the instrument board on a line run without seeing on the compass card a sharp reminder of a TWA deficiency: all its routes run east and west.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the fuselage crackled beside him, and his instrument board dissolved into ruin.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various
