The thing about a gyrocompass is that you can use it differently than that though. From Wordnik.com. [Drabble Smut] Reference
At 10:26 P.M. Sunday night, the gyrocompass broke again. From Wordnik.com. [The Attack on the Liberty] Reference
Mancuso watched the gyrocompass click around to the northeasterly course. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]
Lucas found that neither the gyrocompass nor the rudder angle indicator worked. From Wordnik.com. [The Attack on the Liberty] Reference
The car was equipped with an electrically operated gyrocompass, of no use to him now. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
Then he injected it into the fluid that needed to go into the center of the gyrocompass. From Wordnik.com. [Drabble Smut] Reference
Both the radar and gyrocompass were fried and the officers distrusted the magnetic compass. From Wordnik.com. [The Attack on the Liberty] Reference
About fifteen minutes into the flight we had a gyrocompass failure, and we lost attitude control. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » featured writer : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
In the center of the bridge stood the Libertys gyrocompass, engine order telegraph, and the helm. From Wordnik.com. [The Attack on the Liberty] Reference
The pilot made a very careful check of his tactical display, then locked his eyes on the gyrocompass. From Wordnik.com. [Red Storm Rising]
Then take the gyrocompass and attach it to the dimensional cannon and allow it to program the device. From Wordnik.com. [Drabble Smut] Reference
Steering erratically with a broken gyrocompass, she fell behind Moltke in the dark and was left on her own. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
He spent most of those periods with map, gyrocompass, and sextant, making sure they were still headed right. From Wordnik.com. [A Circus of Hells]
I oriented the map with the little gyrocompass and trudged off into the vast whiteness along the proper bearing. From Wordnik.com. [The Space Merchants]
The fifth submarine, beset by a broken gyrocompass, did not set out until 05.30 and would spend most of the day travelling in circles. From Wordnik.com. [Sealing Their Fate] Reference
The gyrocompass was smashed; as a result, Seydlitz, lacking charts and compass, her steering system failing, was blind and nearly helpless. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
The gyrocompass will continue to orient on that star making a full revolution once with each complete rotation of the planet, the Doctor explained. From Wordnik.com. [Drabble Smut] Reference
A normal gyrocompass finds true north, not magnetic north, by using a very quickly rotating wheel and friction forces in order to use the turn of the Earth in its orienting process. From Wordnik.com. [Drabble Smut] Reference
Her charts were covered with blood and her gyrocompass was wrecked; steered by hand machinery, listing, and with her bow under water, she stumbled down the starboard side of the British battle line. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
The first was as a gyrocompass for shipping, replacing traditional, less reliable, magnetic compasses, and then as a stabiliser in ships and aircraft and more recently spacecraft. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
гирокомпас маркшейдерский взрывобезопасный с торсионным подвесом explosion-proof mine surveyor gyrocompass with torsional suspension. From Wordnik.com. [Глоссарий по горношахтному оборудованию (Mining Equipment Glossary)] Reference
The bridge features an ergonomic design housing state-of-the-art navigational equipment including Kelvin Hughes X-band and S-band radars, chart plotter, eco-sounder, gyrocompass, auto-pilot and night vision. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Log News] Reference
A rising northwest wind and heavy swells made the submarine’s gyrocompass useless and Weddigen fell back on one of the mariner’s age-old methods: navigating by soundings. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
"If the power out-put from our reserve battery falls below a certain level, our three Sperry gyrocompass systems and the N6A -- that's the inertial-guidance machine -- just go out of business. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Station Zebra]
The gyrocompass broke at 6 P.M. Friday. From Wordnik.com. [The Attack on the Liberty] Reference
Lucas found the radar and gyrocompass inoperable. From Wordnik.com. [The Attack on the Liberty] Reference
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