What kinda sorta rare job have you done for a living ?

[Chris4x4Gill2]

Originally Posted by GOPAPA

Interesting ,,my nephew flew jets in the National Guard,,in fact he was the commander of Kingsley Field in Kalamath Falls Oregon and he talked to me once about missiles and he brought up acelerometers or gyro scopes if I remember correctly ,,of course it was above my head ,,you just brought an old memory back and that's all I remember about it ...

Yep! We built the innermost bearings, the floats, gimbal and housing. Its basically a set of gyros that know their position based on the angle and momentum feedback and compare it to the known starting position. Very cool stiff designed in the 60's that they haven't figured out a better way of doing it still.