He came upon a set of cockpit indicators from a Cold War-era RAF airplane — sorry, “aeroplane” — that used a magnetically driven rack and pinion to swivel a set of prism-shaped pieces to ...

How is rack and pinion better? Seems more complex. Sajeev answers: While it is more complex, rack and pinion has serious advantages in a world of ever-improving powertrains (i.e., we have more ...