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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.