PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Why are gyros driven by vacuum and not high pressure air?
Old 3rd Jun 2016, 23:38
  #9 (permalink)  
megan
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: N/A
Posts: 5,959
Received 413 Likes on 214 Posts
The early Bell rocket propelled research aircraft used pressure from the onboard nitrogen source to run the gyros. The exhaust from the gyro was dumped into the cockpit to maintain pressurisation. The nitrogen main use was to pressurise the propellant tanks.
megan is offline