The plane of vibration is fixed in relation to the insect’s fuselage. When the insect banks, turns climbs or dives, the gyroscope tries to keep vibrating in the same plane.

As such, we have for teardown here a Sperry Flight Systems Vertical Gyro surplused from a Boeing 747 aircraft. This box was probably manufactured somewhere around the original rollout of the Boeing ...

You’re thinking of the Directional Indicator, which must be reset to the compass quite often due to precession. Since the artificial horizon only needs to hold the horizontal plane, it’s not ...

According to the team from the Tianjin Navigation Instruments Research Institute and Jinan University, the gyroscope could offer a more stable way to measure navigation for aircraft, ships and oil ...

Singapore's defence ministry has shed more light on the pitch rate gyroscope failure that resulted in the crash of a Lockheed Martin F-16 on 8 May.