An artificial horizon for sea use has been wanted for ... The fact is often overlooked that as the sextant is a double-reflecting instrument each degree of the circle is represented by two degrees ...

THE artificial horizon, the instrument that tells pilots how their aircraft is banking, is due for a rethink. So says cockpit ergonomics researcher Donough Wilson of Coventry University in the UK ...

without the need for an artificial horizon, all the information required. The setting up, usually by means of an attached bubble, introduces into the instrument the desired vertical. The ...

That allowed him to build a LEGO piece which displays an impressively-smooth artificial horizon display, as you might find in an aircraft. He demonstrates this by putting the instrument on a LEGO ...

AN aircraft spiralled 3600ft into the ground, killing all 12 people on board, after a vital instrument failed, an inquest was told yesterday. Five of the dead were Scots: four from Aberdeenshire ...

Optik Instruments argues that we rarely say ... and also gives it a distinctive design reminiscent of the artificial horizon dials used in aircraft. It completes a single rotation over a 24 ...

[Ken] recently obtained an attitude indicator—sometimes called an artificial horizon—from an F-4 fighter jet. Unlike some indicators, the F-4’s can rotate to show pitch, roll, and yaw ...