invention of the first autopilot and artificial horizon
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Lawrence Burst Sperry (21 December 1892, Chicago, Illinois, United States – December 13, 1923, English Channel) was an aviation pioneer who invented the autopilot and the artificial horizon.[1][2]
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^Singh, Sumit (2021-03-14). "Lawrence Sperry: The Man Who Made The World's First Autopilot". Simple Flying. Retrieved 2023-10-02.
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maintain straight and level flight. LawrenceSperry's autopilot was first demonstrated in France on June 18, 1914. Sperry was participating in an exhibition...
rudder pedals; others maintain it was a simple joyride). Pilot/engineer LawrenceSperry and socialite Dorothy Rice Sims have been described as the first persons...
workload. LawrenceSperry, the son of famous inventor Elmer Sperry, demonstrated it in 1914 at an aviation safety contest held in Paris. Sperry demonstrated...
son Lawrence Burst Sperry, Sperry created a gyro that could control the elevators and ailerons of an aircraft through a series of servos. Sperry successfully...
Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Pioneer of Flight Award (1965) AIAA LawrenceSperry Award for Flight Research (1966) Iven C. Kincheloe Prize awarded by...
part of the Sperry UNIVAC division. To assist "corporate identity" the name was changed to Sperry Univac, along with Sperry Remington, Sperry New Holland...
Wright, for development of his automatic stabilizer. 1914 – Elmer Sperry and LawrenceSperry, for the invention of gyroscopic control. 1915 – W. Starling Burgess...
automatically controlling flight. Autopilot was first invented by LawrenceSperry during World War I to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit accurate...
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named after him American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: LawrenceSperry Award, 1967 Saint Louis University: Alumni Merit Award, 1968; Founders...
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Built on Thin Air". Pacific Historical Review 35: 329–43. History.net. LawrenceSperry: Autopilot Inventor and Aviation Innovator. June 12, 2006. Sean Foley...
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design was quickly eclipsed by a gyroscopic autopilot developed by LawrenceSperry for the competing Curtiss Aeroplane Company. On 31 December 1913, Orville...
thunderstorm and subsequent loss of control." Crossfield received the LawrenceSperry Award (1954), Octave Chanute Award (1954), Iven C. Kincheloe Award...
popular among Catholics and Protestants alike, with John Wesley, Willard L Sperry, A. W. Tozer and Hannah Whitall Smith recommending it to others. Hannah...
authenticated membership in the "Mile-high club": by pilot/engineer LawrenceSperry and pilot/socialite Dorothy Rice Sims in her Curtiss Model F flying...
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