It shouldnt come as a surprise to learn that piston-powered airplanes have a number of limitations on their suitability for all-weather operations. Pilots-and Aviation Safety readers-have been known ...

Many general aviation aircraft still rely on older, failure-prone vacuum-powered instruments, despite modern smartphones possessing advanced sensors (accelerometers, gyros, magnetometers, barometers) ...

Vacuum system failures are a significant cause of fatal accidents in light general aviation, often due to inadequate pilot training in partial-panel flight and a lack of reliable warning systems.

One of the primary ways that gyroscopic motion can be applied is in the monitoring and/or maintaining of the orientation of an object. A broad array of engineering applications are based on gyroscopic ...

Chinese researchers say they have developed a “groundbreaking” fibre-optic gyroscope that is stable across a large temperature range and can be used for navigation. According to the team from the ...