Monday, December 17, 2018

Link Trainer

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Link Trainer - working flight simulator, no computers necessary - Tom Scott > .



Link Trainer
https://youtu.be/0EvJEF85VLw?t=4m12s

https://youtu.be/p7ANtkGWFQE?t=57s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5cFp7fMeKw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kmmKj7fbnI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEKkVg9NqGM

Training in ATA > .

WW2 Link trainer

The term Link Trainer, also known as the "Blue box" and "Pilot Trainer" is commonly used to refer to a series of flight simulators produced between the early 1930s and early 1950s by the Link Aviation Devices, Inc, founded and headed by Ed Link, based on technology he pioneered in 1929 at his family's business in Binghamton, New York. During World War II, they were used as a key pilot training aid by almost every combatant nation.

The original Link Trainer was created in 1929 out of the need for a safe way to teach new pilots how to fly by instruments. A former organ and nickelodeon builder, Link used his knowledge of pumps, valves and bellows to create a flight simulator that responded to the pilot's controls and gave an accurate reading on the included instruments. More than 500,000 US pilots were trained on Link simulators, as were pilots of nations as diverse as Australia, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Israel, Japan, Pakistan, and the USSR.
The Link Flight Trainer has been designated as a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Link Company, now the Link Simulation & Training division of L-3 Communications, continues to make aerospace simulators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Trainer

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