1933 NY Times newspaper with INVENTION of the AUTOPILOT for AVIATION Wiley Post

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1933 NY Times newspaper with INVENTION of the AUTOPILOT for AVIATION Wiley Post -
inv # 6B-207
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
New York Times
dated July 5, 1933.
This newspaper contains an inside page heading and long report on the improvement in the
INVENTION of the NEW AUTOPILOT for aviation by famed pilot WILEY POST
.
An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without constant manual control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace human operators, but instead they assist them in controlling the vehicle. This allows them to focus on broader aspects of operations such as monitoring the trajectory, weather and systems. In the early days of aviation, aircraft required the continuous attention of a pilot to fly safely. As aircraft range increased, allowing flights of many hours, the constant attention led to serious fatigue. An autopilot is designed to perform some of the tasks of the pilot.
After the record-setting flight in 1930, Wiley Post decided to attempt a solo flight around the world and to break his previous speed record. Over the next year,
Post improved his aircraft by installing an autopilot device
and a radio direction finder that were in their final stages of development by the Sperry Gyroscope Company and the United States Army.
In 1933, he repeated his flight around the world, this time using the auto-pilot and compass in place of his navigator and becoming the first to accomplish the feat alone. He departed from Floyd Bennett Field and continued on to Berlin where repairs were attempted to his autopilot, stopped at Königsberg to replace some forgotten maps, Moscow for more repairs to his autopilot, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk for final repairs to the autopilot, Rukhlovo, Khabarovsk, Flat where his propeller had to be replaced, Fairbanks, Edmonton, and back to Floyd Bennett Field. Fifty thousand people greeted him on his return on July 22 after 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes.
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