Airplanes work with the help of an intricate system that we will call flight instruments. These devices, which allow professional aviators to safely sojourn through the clouds, use two main principles: rigidity in space or gyroscopic inertia (which provides stability while traveling on the air) and precession (which refers to the tilting prompted by external […]

Weathermen and women have been trying to predict the weather for years using various tools and instruments at their disposal. Mother nature does not disclose her secrets easily. In some corners of the earth, meteorologists are still relying on weather balloons and pibal theodolites to track their movements but in most of the developed world […]