MAKING AIR SAFE
FIRST STEP TOWARD ROBOT AIR PILOT. LONDON, Saturday. Though particulars are vague, it is possihle that the young New Zealander, Bernard Roberts, with his aeroplane stabiliser, now being tested in England, has perfeeted something that will he cheap to produce and applieable with great advantage to light aircraft. In recent years the trend of design in aircraft accessories has been to produce something with the effect that, on all types of 'plane, the pilot will he supervised in control hy a mechanical brain — ever watehful of his slightest deviation' from set course or of error in judgment. Last year a squadron of huge bomhing 'plane s was flown 50 miles to San Francisco, circled the city, and returned to the hase, entirely directed by Sperry gyroscopic pilots. This wonderful piece of intricate mechanism, worked by electrical impulses, is cumhersome, heavy, and very costly. Its application to the modern light 'plane, on which 70 per cent. of the world's commercial and pleasure flying is done, would he out of the questioii. Recently an automatic pilot assisted the crew of the long-range R.A.F, Fairev mononlaue in its non-stoTi
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 150, 17 February 1932, Page 7
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