EEVblog #854 - B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown
Why Hacker News recommends it
Pointed to when people want to see the cams and gears inside a mechanical navigation computer.
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2016 to 2017.
What Hacker News said
Recommends kalleboo · 2016-04 · on “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]
Recommends david-given · 2017-03 · on “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...
Cites gherkin0 · 2016-06 · on “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.