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This object is on display in Boeing Aviation Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.
United States of America
INSTRUMENTS-Flight Management
The Sperry Gyroscope Co.
Vacuum operated, ball bank indicator, 6 1/2 in. h., c.1935
3-D: 19.1 × 17.8 × 16.5cm (7 1/2 × 7 × 6 1/2 in.)
Aluminum alloy, copper alloy, magnesium, glass, plastic, phenolic resin, cellulose nitrate, Micarta (fiber-reinforced phenolic resin), rubber, black paint, radium paint, paint
A19650013000
Gift of the Sperry Gyroscope Company
National Air and Space Museum
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