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Old July 7th 07, 10:18 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Don Pyeatt
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Default Cockpit tour of TB-58 050668


"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.