189K views · Feb 24, 2016 · 28:52 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2016–2017
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: Pointed to when people want to see the cams and gears inside a mechanical navigation computer.
“if you want to see inside a mechanical computer of this type”HN comment, 2016
“if you want to see inside a mechanical computer of this type”
Teardown of a mechanical analog navigation computer from a B52.
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
“So, so many beautiful cams and moving arms...”
Teardown of a B52 astrocompass mechanical analogue 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...
“EEVBlog did a teardown part of one of these systems from a B-52”
Teardown of a B-52 mechanical analog computer.
EEVBlog did a teardown part of one of these systems from a B-52 ( this video ). IIRC, it used a completely mechanical analog computer.
