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Show New Automatic Pilot Does Everything but Fill Tank PITTSBURGH, Pa. Westing-house Westing-house Electric corporation has perfected per-fected a new electrical "copilot" an automatic-pilot device that will guide the nation's newest all-weather all-weather jets with "unlimited maneuverability." ma-neuverability." Loops, rolls, and other combat maneuvers which require split-second timing and sudden bursts of speed or change of direction will be matters of routine for the new midget device. The new auto-pilot achieves complete com-plete maneuverability through the use of three "nontumbling" gyroscopes. gyro-scopes. Scientists reported that a pilot using the device will be able to engage in the steepest turns, dives, rolls, and loops with ease. Foggy and dark weather will mean little to the pilot using the new device. The equipment will be so rigged with the plane's instrument-landing system that it will be able to land "in any kind of soup". The device, described as the most sensitive automatic pilot ever developed, de-veloped, also will help pilots track moving enemy targets. It will respond re-spond to the movements of its control con-trol knob with one fifteenth of a second. |