Bendix analog air data computer - GIF and photos

Bendix analog air data computer used by fighter planes in the 1950s.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...424#post204763
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...404#post154620
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...971#post153022
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...449#post212025
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...654#post219948

Companies like Garret Air Research and Sperry Aerospace would hire every Watchmaker who had lost his job in New York after the advent of the digital wristwatch. This analog instrument is why the airway "vertical separation minimums" between aircraft, up until the late 1990's was held to 1,000 feet. As air data computers went "digital" in the 1980's, and began using solid-state sensors, flight level separations would eventually reduced to 500 feet, allowing more aircraft into our already crowded airspace.

A very complex bit of kit must have cost a small fortune to build.