gyropilot
AmericanEtymology
Origin of gyropilot
First recorded in 1920–25; gyro(scope) + pilot
Example Sentences
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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 Sperry gyropilot is named for famed Inventor Elmer Ambrose Sperry who was the first man to bridle the principles inherent in the gyroscope.
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
Most promising indication was the fact that an integral part of the system is the Sperry gyropilot.
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
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