Attitude director indicator

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1984-01-05

1985-04-30

Stearns, Richard R.

Geometrical instruments

Indicator of direction of force traversing natural media

Gyroscopically controlled or stabilized

33328, 340974, G01C 1944, G08C 2100

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045135096

ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to an aircraft attitude indicator having a gyro controlled spherical display with delineations of regularly spaced meridians that maintain a vertical orientation and spaced parallels transverse to the meridians, one of which is an equator that divides the sphere into upper and lower hemispheres and corresponds to a horizon. The lower hemisphere has triangular pointer indicia, each symmetrical to a delineated meridian and with a base on a parallel and an apex proximal to the equator. The pointer indicia cooperate with a reference delineation that is relatively fixed with respect to the aircraft and substantially centered on the display. The pointer indicium nearest the reference designates the "up" direction; those adjacent to it provide information about changes in aircraft attitude relative to "up" that will result from possible maneuvers from the existing attitude.

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patent: 3516055 (1970-06-01), Snider
IEEE Spectrum, Jul. 1975, pp. 28 and 29.

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