4-555: The Pioneer Instrument Company was an American aircraft component manufacturer. The Pioneer Instrument Company was started by Morris Maxey Titterington and Brice Herbert Goldsborough in Brooklyn, New York in 1919 using patents from the Lawrence Sperry Aircraft Corporation. Charles Herbert Colvin was the president. They specialized in aeronautical instruments including a bubble sextant and
8-757: The Curtiss Flying School . In 1918 he was working for the Sperry Gyroscope Corporation and was living in Brooklyn . He was included in the 1925 edition of Who's Who in American Aviation. Titterington and Brice Herbert Goldsborough founded the Pioneer Instrument Company in 1919. Titterington designed the Earth inductor compass in 1924. In 1928 he took off in a Travel Air , headed across
12-935: The Earth Inductor Compass . The company later acquired control of Brandis & Sons, Inc., in 1922, and Pioneer was later acquired by the Bendix Aviation Corporation in 1928. As the United States was entering World War II , the company became the Pioneer Instrument Division of Bendix Aviation, and moved to New Jersey . By 1943 it had merged with the Eclipse Machine Company to become the Eclipse-Pioneer Division of Bendix Aviation . The Pioneer division did not survive
16-581: The end of the Bendix Corporation in 1983. This United States manufacturing company–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Morris Maxey Titterington Morris Maxey Titterington (July 20, 1891 – July 11, 1928) was a pioneering aviator, and engineer. Titterington was born in Paris, Texas , the son of George Titterington. Titterington graduated from Bliss Electrical School in 1913. In 1914 he graduated from
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