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Sim/Strategy/War => Flight Simulation => Topic started by: Frankie on May 04, 2017, 09:53:16 AM

Title: Retro flight simulators - they trained in that?
Post by: Frankie on May 04, 2017, 09:53:16 AM

12 Retro Flight Simulators by David Galbraith.

(http://www.moodurian.com/tornado/images/oldfsim.jpg)
1909 training rig for the Antoinette aircraft. Whoa! That was very immersive Pierre!

(http://www.moodurian.com/tornado/images/linktrainer.jpg)
Poster for Edwin A. Link's Flight Trainer 1930s

Just two of the 12 contraptions featured in the full article from http://www.oobject.com/category/12-retro-flight-simulators/

Title: Re: Retro flight simulators - they trained in that?
Post by: Rinix on May 04, 2017, 04:00:55 PM

One of my great-uncles was an instructor for a Link Trainer during WWII. He got to be one of Jimmy Stewart's instructors.