EEVblog #854 - B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown
EEVblog2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2016–2017
demo · intermediate · evergreen · 2016–2017 on HN
Dave Jones of EEVblog tears down a Kollsman MD-1 Automatic Astro Compass, a mechanical analog computer from a B-52 bomber. It is part of a star-tracker inertial navigation system that computes altitude and azimuth.
Pointed to when people want to see the cams and gears inside a mechanical navigation computer.
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3 comments from Hacker News
Eevblog has a teardown of the mechanical analogue computer that drove an astrocompass from a B52 bomber: ▶ this video So, so many beautiful cams and moving arms...
Dave Jones of EEVBlog recently tore down an analog navigation computer used on the B52 if you want to see inside a mechanical computer of this type ▶ this video
EEVBlog did a teardown part of one of these systems from a B-52 ( ▶ this video ). IIRC, it used a completely mechanical analog computer.