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    EEVblog #854 - B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown

    EEVblog

    2 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2016–2017

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    28:52 · 189K views · Feb 24, 2016

    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

    1. @david-givenMar 2017· in “The Dornier DO-960 Analog Computer”

      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...

      RecommendsView on HN
    2. @kallebooApr 2016· in “When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves (2014)”

      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

      RecommendsView on HN
    3. @gherkin0Jun 2016· in “Planned GPS outages in southern California”

      EEVBlog did a teardown part of one of these systems from a B-52 ( this video ). IIRC, it used a completely mechanical analog computer.

      CitesView on HN