Some inventions are so simple that it’s hard to improve them. The magnetic compass is a great example — a magnetized needle, a bit of cork, and a bowl of water are all you need to start navigating the ...
Trimec Aviation, a certified Part 145 repair station based in Fort Worth, has added a Capital Avionics CA-420 digital compass rose system to calibrate an aircraft magnetic compass. The aircraft ...
In the 1980s, I worked as an avionics supervisor at Hayes International Aircraft Corp. in Birmingham, Ala. A Boeing KC-135 test pilot on return from a test flight told me in a debriefing that they had ...