2013-05-22
post/51089248784
scienceblogs via chrisoshea via iamdanw:
I LOVE this analogue moon landing simulator!
“This simulator was designed to provide a pilot with a detailed visual encounter with the lunar surface; the machine consisted primarily of a cockpit, a closed-circuit TV system, and four large murals or scale models representing portions of the lunar surface as seen from various altitudes. The pilot in the cockpit moved along a track past these murals which would accustom him to the visual cues for controlling a spacecraft in the vicinity of the moon. Unfortunately, such a simulation — although great fun and quite aesthetic — was not helpful because flight in lunar orbit posed no special problems other than the rendezvous with the LEM, which the device did not simulate. Not long after the end of Apollo, the expensive machine was dismantled.”
2013-05-10
post/50102293807
natgeofound, via iamdanw:
Apprentice air traffic controllers train with model aircraft at Andrews Air Base in Maryland, March 1957.
Photograph by Robert F. Sisson and Donald McBain, National Geographic
Analogue!
2012-03-22
post/19730023540
Ripping old records.
I love this track for many reasons (personally I think it’s just beautiful), but I’ve always been fond of the moment right at the beginning where you can hear that it’s been copied from a cassette tape. Those of us who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s can hear the slight dropout as one of the artefacts of tape slipping, and I’ve always liked it.
This rip adds to that the gentle hiss of a needle dropping onto vinyl, so you get two analogue moments for the price of one. Fantastic.
