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What do gyroscopes have to do with airplanes?
A:
Gyroscopes have the incredible property of always keeping the same orientation, no matter how a craft moves around them. This makes them very useful for naviagation, because if the plane moves around them, they can claculate just how much it has moved.
Posted on February 5, 2014 at 4:19 pm
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