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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.

Repair, teardowns & right to repairMechanical & precision engineeringAviation & aerospace engineering#teardown#b-52#astrocompass#navigation#eevblog

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@david-given2017 · 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...

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@gherkin02016 · 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.

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@kalleboo2016 · 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

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