"Don Pyeatt" wrote in message
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"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message
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"Don Pyeatt" wrote in
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Always startling to see nuclear bombers
with flight instruments more primitive than
your average Cessna...............



And all the electronics still vacuum tube based. Not even a germanium
transistor onboard. And except for a few Selsyn motors, even the flight
control "computer" was mechanical.




Here a Convair worker is looking up into the flight control computer.

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