Websites

• Wikipedia article on the Saturn V Instrument Unit This was the part of the Saturn V stack that provided navigation, guidance, communications, tracking, and telemetry functions for the Saturn rocket.

• Wikipedia article on ST-124-M3 intertial platform This is the gyroscopically stabilized platform that was develop the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo program.

• QuickTime Virtual Reality view of the interior of Instrument Unit With this movie you can roam and zoom and learn the names of the components mounted inside Instrument Unit #514 on display at Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles Airport. If your browser does not display this QTVR file, you will need to use QuickTime Player 7 for Mac and open this URL: http://edgardurbin.com/SaturnIU/Saturn_IU_Mk17.mov.

• My website about the Instrument Unit

• New York City Sights Useful for planning what to do when in New York.

• Washington, DC Sights Useful for planning a visit to Washington.

• Information about southern Finland

• Skyhook Stills from "Thunderball", the James Bond movie that ended with James and his French friend being plucked out of the water by a B-17 equipped with the Fulton Skyhook. Robert Fulton invented this system, for recovering people from the ground. It was used here in a marine setting, but the Forest Service was interested in it for recovering smoke jumpers who were trapped in forest fires. A CIA contractor flew such a mission in 1961 in COLDFEET, a joint Navy-Air Force-CIA operation. An Air Force and a Navy officer parachuted onto a drifing arctic ice island recently abandoned by a Soviet party, and the B-17 recovered them and the haul of documents, instruments and other abandoned materials. I don't know if it told them anything, but it was a spectacular operation.

• Some resources for learning Japanese.

• A sampler of work by Takashi Murakami

• Our house

• Manhole covers

• Home page at Washington Apple Pi

• Published articles by me

• Our rail trips

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