Cockpit tour of TB-58 050668

"Don Pyeatt" wrote in :



Always startling to see nuclear bombers
with flight instruments more primitive than
your average Cessna...............

"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.

"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.

Don Pyeatt wrote:
"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.



I was employed by Kaman subcontracting and built the bare chassis for a
device known as a "photo recorder" from mid 1959 through the fall of
1961. This device was used somewhere in the B-58 and it consisted two
magnesium side rails, a component bed that was liquid cooled also
machined out of magnesium and a stainless CRES front panel about the
size of a 12" CRT.

I have never seen where it was used and still am curious.

JT