B-52 Automatic Astro Compass Teardown
EEVblog · Demo · 29 min · 2016 · YouTube title: EEVblog #854 - B52 Bomber Automatic Astro Compass Teardown
Why it's here
Pointed to when people want to see the cams and gears inside a mechanical navigation computer.
What it covers
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.