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1960
1960 - 1440.PDF
10 FLIGHT 26 AUGUST 195Q By our standards, a thousandth of an inch is an agricultural idea You know about the man who was asked how big a 'thou' was? 'Very, very small' he said. He was asked how many there were in an inch. 'Millions of them' he said. In this unusual factory of ours—unique in Europe, we suppose—we don't think of a 'thou' as at all small. We have had to train ourselves to take a tolerance of half a tenth in our stride, and to use on our production inspection-line a machine that will measure out-of-roundness of the order of one millionth of an inch. • . But then we are in production with instruments the like of which the world has never seen before. We produce (in partnership with Minneapolis Honeywell) Inertial Quality Gyroscopes so accurate that they precess less than half a degree per day, so sensitive that you can use them for finding true North to within a few minutes of arc. Small wonder that we do 'sand'-blasting with bicarbonate of soda, and that a speck of dust is a calamity. 'ENGLISH ELECTRIC' i* INERTIAL GUIDANCE INSTRUMENT WING • GUIDED WEAPONS DIVISION . ENGLISH ELECTRIC AVIATION LIMITED • STEVENACE Membpr Company of British Aircraft Corporation
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