EEVblog #854 - B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown
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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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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 [VIDEO]
EEVBlog did a teardown part of one of these systems from a B-52 ( [VIDEO] ). IIRC, it used a completely mechanical analog computer.
Eevblog has a teardown of the mechanical analogue computer that drove an astrocompass from a B52 bomber: [VIDEO] So, so many beautiful cams and moving arms...