bank indicator
nounAeronautics.
a flight instrument that measures the angle of roll about an aircraft's horizontal axis, thereby indicating whether or not the aircraft is skidding or slipping.
- Also called ball indicator, slip indicator.
- Compare bank-and-turn indicator.
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How to use bank indicator in a sentence
From his compass his eyes darted to his turn-and-bank indicator, then to his air speed indicator.
The Flying Reporter | Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) TheissThe turn and bank indicator also reads from zero, and deviates from zero when the plane dips.
Famous Flyers | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)The steel ball in the centre of the turn-and-bank indicator had to be kept right in the centre.
The Flying Reporter | Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) TheissThe turn and bank indicator was performing a kind of tango round the dial.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930 | Victor Rousseau
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