Pioneer Instrument Company

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.They specialized in aeronautical instruments including a bubble sextant and the Earth Inductor Compass.[4][failed verification] 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.
A Pioneer bubble sextant
Pioneer Aerospace CorporationAeronauticsBrooklyn, New YorkCharles Herbert ColvinBrice Herbert GoldsboroughMorris Maxey TitteringtonTeterboro, New JerseyParentBendix CorporationsextantEarth Inductor CompassBendixUnited StatesWorld War IINew JerseyEclipse Machine CompanyBendix AviationPGM-11 RedstonePershing missileST-124-M3 inertial platformSaturn V