On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 22:11:11 -0400, (Peter Stickney)
wrote:

In article ,
Mary Shafer writes:

We put a flight control computer in that space, after removing the
probe, on our F-8, so I'm going by memory of the dummy probe we
strapped onto the airplane for my PIO suppression filter testing.

To drag the thread a bit closer to charter, wasn't the computer used
on thw DFBW Crusader an Apollo CSM's Guidance Computer? I've seen
soem photos of the computer installation, and there's a suspicious-
looking DSKY in the computer bay on that airplane.

That was Phase I and it was three Apollo computers. Phase II was
three AP-101s. Although it really was more like eight of each because
we needed two ship sets (one for the airplane and one for the iron
bird) and a couple of spares.

Phase I demonstrated NASA expertise at scrounging and Phase II
demonstrated inter-Center cooperation. There's a photo of the F-8
DFBW in front of an Orbiter around that was taken for an article about
using the AP-101s. When Dave Scott left Dryden (and NASA), we gave
him his Apollo computer because we'd been in Phase II for years by
then.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer