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  2. Pioneer Instrument Company - Wikipedia

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    The Pioneer Instrument Company was started by Morris Maxey Titterington and Brice Herbert Goldsborough in Brooklyn, New York in 1919 using patents from the Lawrence Sperry Aircraft Corporation. [2] [3] Charles Herbert Colvin was the president. They specialized in aeronautical instruments including a bubble sextant and the Earth Inductor Compass.

  3. Bell P-39 Airacobra - Wikipedia

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    [N 3] Although Bell's limited fighter design work had previously resulted in the unusual Bell YFM-1 Airacuda, the Model 12 [11] proposal adopted an equally original configuration with an Allison V-12 engine mounted in the middle of the fuselage, just behind the cockpit, and a propeller driven by a shaft passing beneath the pilot's feet under ...

  4. William Samuel Henson - Wikipedia

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    Henson, Stringfellow, Frederick Marriott, and D.E. Colombine, incorporated as the Aerial Transit Company in 1843 in England, with the intention of raising money to construct the flying machine. Henson built a scale model of his design, which made one tentative steam-powered "hop" as it lifted, or bounced, off its guide wire.

  5. ERCO Ercoupe - Wikipedia

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    Significant modifications included a double-articulated folding wing mechanism and a pusher engine. It still retained Ercoupe features, such as the twin tail and the center section. The first flight was in 1953, and the model II flew 65 hours. The Model III with a single wing-fold mechanism crashed in 1974, killing Bryan. [45] [46] Lasher ...

  6. Menasco Motors Company - Wikipedia

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    By 1946, the company was a subcontractor to Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and manufactured and designed technologies related to gas turbine technologies. [ 7 ] More than 80,000 gear sets were produced during WWII, including such aircraft as the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the North American P-51 Mustang, the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, and the Lockheed P ...

  7. Walter M601 - Wikipedia

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    Special variant for paradrop aircraft, used on the Do 28 and some Finist conversions. M601D-11 Agricultural and paradrop variant with a higher Time Between Overhaul of up to 1800 hours. M601D-11NZ Downrated variant for use in the FU-24 Fletcher. M601E Developed for the Let L410UVP-E. M601E-11 General use engine with sub-variants of differing ...

  8. Pratt & Whitney/Allison 578-DX - Wikipedia

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    The Pratt & Whitney/Allison 578-DX was an experimental aircraft engine, a hybrid between a turbofan and a turboprop known as a propfan. The engine was designed in the 1980s to power proposed propfan aircraft such as the Boeing 7J7 and the MD-91 and MD-92 derivatives of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80. As of 2019, it is still one of only four ...

  9. Mark I Fire Control Computer - Wikipedia

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    It was originally developed by Hannibal C. Ford of the Ford Instrument Company [1] and William Newell. It was used on a variety of ships, ranging from destroyers (one per ship) to battleships (four per ship). The Mark 37 system used tachymetric target motion prediction to compute a fire control solution. It contained a target simulator which ...