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Pointed to when people want to see the cams and gears inside a mechanical navigation computer.
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.
“if you want to see inside a mechanical computer of this type” (HN, 2016)
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]
Teardown of a mechanical analog navigation computer from a B52.
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...
Teardown of a B52 astrocompass mechanical analogue computer.
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