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EEVblog #854 - B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown

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Repair, teardowns & right to repairMechanical & precision engineeringAviation & aerospace engineering

What it is

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 recommends it

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

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “if you want to see inside a mechanical computer of this type”

    Teardown of a mechanical analog navigation computer from a B52.

    kalleboo, 2016-04 · Recommendation · in “When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves (2014)”

  2. “So, so many beautiful cams and moving arms...”

    Teardown of a B52 astrocompass mechanical analogue computer.

    david-given, 2017-03 · Recommendation · in “The Dornier DO-960 Analog Computer”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: teardown, b-52, astro compass, navigation, eevblog

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