Autopilot reducing the pilot's workload. Lawrence Sperry (the son of famous inventor Elmer Sperry) demonstrated it in 1914 at an aviation safety contest held in Paris. At the contest, Sperry demonstrated the credibility of the invention by flying the aircraft with his hands away from the controls and visible to onlookers of the contest. Elmer Sperry Jr., the son of Lawrence Sperry, and Capt Shiras continued work after the war on the same autopilot, and in 1930 they tested a more compact and reliable autopilot which kept a US Army Air Corps aircraft on a true heading and altitude for three
To the Aid of Falx To the Aid of Falx To the Aid of Falx is an adventure module published in 1982 for the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. In "To the Aid of Falx", the player characters aid a silver dragon by trying to retrieve five "potions of silver dragon control" from a thieves' lair. R-1 "To the Aid of Falx" was written by Frank Mentzer, with art by Jim Holloway, and published by TSR/RPGA in 1982 as a 16-page booklet with an outer folder. The module was a limited edition, sold only to members of the RPGA. It was later rewritten,