EEVblog #854 - B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown

EEVblog · 189.4K views · 2016-02-24 · 28:52

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Overview

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.

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Pointed to when people want to see the cams and gears inside a mechanical navigation computer.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2016–2017

Topics

Repair, teardowns & right to repair Mechanical & precision engineering Aviation & aerospace engineering

What people said

david-given · 2017-03 · Recommendation
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...
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kalleboo · 2016-04 · Recommendation
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]
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gherkin0 · 2016-06 · Reference
EEVBlog did a teardown part of one of these systems from a B-52 ( [VIDEO] ). IIRC, it used a completely mechanical analog computer.
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