Display Status:

This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.

Collection Item Summary:

Composite image of four photographs of a Voisin 10 BN.2 (Type LAR) modified for automatic flying. Top left: "Fig.2. Generators on strut between lower tail booms supplying current to the Servo-motors and gyroscopes." (see also WF-19304) Top right: "Fig.1. Voisin biplane equipped for automatic flying." Bottom left: "Fig. 3. Rear cockpit showing gyroscopes and Servo-motors governing controls. Note series of buttons on left operating controls." (see also WF-19306) Bottom right: "Fig 4. Rear cockpit showing cover of Servo-motor box raised." (see also WF-19307)

Collection Item Long Description:

Topic

  • Aeronautics, Military
  • Airplanes - Cockpits
  • Airplanes - military
  • Biplanes
  • Drone aircraft
  • Gyroscopes

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Restrictions & Rights

Images are subject to Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Copyright and Image Use Restrictions. Usage requires prior written permission. Should you wish to use NASM still images in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Photographs, available at NASM's Permissions webpage: www.nasm.si.edu/research/arch/permissions.cfm

photographer

Unknown

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Date

Circa 1918

Repository Loc.

National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division, MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560

Type

Photographs

Local number

NASM-00096421

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