The National Air and Space Museum has opened a new display depicting the evolution of aircraft cockpit instrumentation. Please join curator Roger Connor as he discusses the more significant and exotic pieces on display and how they changed the way we fly.
Meet at the nose of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird in the Boeing Aviation Hangar.
About the Ask an Expert Series: A few times a month at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a Museum staff member talks to the public about the history, collection, or personalities related to a specific artifact or exhibition in the Museum. For topics of upcoming Ask and Expert talks at the Udvar-Hazy Center, click here.
The Drexler Aircraft Steering Gauge was the first gyroscopic attitude instrument to go into regular service. The German Imperial Air Service used it on its Gotha and Staaken bombers used for night raids on London in 1918.