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Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
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During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a special instrument called the FDAI (Fli...
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Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane
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We recently received an attitude indicator for the F-4 fighter plane, an instrument that uses a rotating ball to show the aircraft's ori...
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Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 5: motor/tachometers
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The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC) is an electromechanical analog computer that uses gears and cams for its mathematics. It was a k...
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