The Steampunk Flight Simulator That Helped Win World War II
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Kelly, Lloyd, The Pilot Maker, Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1970
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Eat less?
Hey, where's that link to the "interesting RUclips video" you talk about @13:13????????????????????
@@ASilentS It's the vintagewings.ca link.
@@danielthompson6207 I'm not sure if you know this but vintagewings.ca is not a RUclips video.
He forgot to put in a link that he promised ... aaagain.
really, Simon ... post-its ... something.
Do something to remember stuff, will ya.
So my grandmother was actually his neighbor in Binghamton and knew the family during this time. She recalled that he was an inveterate tinkerer who had made a bunch of clever stuff that never went anywhere commercially before the trainer. So that it was only after a lot of false starts and hard work that he eventually had all this success. She also talked about how many lives that the trainer likely saved.
It is one of those things that when you think about it for a minute, seems just completely improbable. Realistically simulate the behavior of an aircraft in flight accurately enough to train a new pilot, without any access to a computer, and without any significant R&D budget. That was one seriously bright guy.
Success = failures + 1
You're always one try away from success
@@ScootrRichards That brings to mind a quote by Thomas Edison, "I didn't fail to create a light bulb 1000 times, I learned 1000 ways how not to create a light bulb."
@@ScootrRichards ah thats why we keep trying out communism? I though we just hated our own kind...
The sad truth is, there is basically no easy way to achieve stuff. It all hard work and failure after failure. The difference is people who give up and people who learn from their mistakes and continue on. Obviously it not a sure fire way, as even with all the hard work of the world you still could fail.
I had the opportunity to train in one of these as a young teenager, in the Air Cadets. Our squadron owned one that trained countless pilots.
ditto and did you get to fly in a chipmunk to?
Wow... That's pretty cool. 👍👍
@@michealmatthews9377 no, but I got to fly a Cessna 172 plenty of times.
Was that 1349 Woking by any chance?
Aye sure you did pal
Not many people know this but steampunk is in fact the healthiest way to prepare punk.
My Dr. Martens and I are offended. We would prefer to be sautéed. Thank you very much!
I prefer propane and propane accessories.
But fried punk prepared in lard just tastes sooooo good!
If raw was good enough for my ancestors it's good enough for me.
Punk was good in the 70s but now it's old, tough and stringy and causing a lot of issues in nursing homes. Best to stew it slowly and be sure to remove all the safety pins before consuming.
In 1972, about 50 years ago, my father was an instructor at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario, Canada. He brought me on campus one evening and snuck me into one of the buildings. There in a room was a Link simulator. A dark sealed box with instrumentation dimly lit by a single bulb. As you 'flew' it would record information on a drum of trace paper. I didn't realize at the time the history of the simulator. Even 50 years ago it was very ancient and at the end of its functional life. Ultimately I was more interested in the plastic extruder equipment. Kids, sheeesh.
Hey sean. I work at YKF waterloo airport. We are in possession of an old link trainer. Our company bought it from the old millard hanger. Before that it may have been from hamilton. We may be in possession of that very same unit you saw.
@@FUCKEDGUITARS If its earlier lineage brought it anywhere near Durham College then it might be the one. I remember it being very antique looking some 45+ years ago. The canopy fabric was in disrepair and it had that old dusty smell that the whole world seemed to have when I was growing up in rural Ontario. We mostly lived suburbs though. Still, very dusty. I remember the claustrophobic feeling when my father closed the top of the trainer and operated the machine. Dark, stuffy, quiet. He warned me the real experience would be far colder, louder, and dangerous. Ah, the joy of youth. Reaching back into the past is such an odd feeling! [I didn't scratch my initials on the Trainer so we might never know]
In the 1970's when I was a radar engineer in the RAF the local air cadets came into possession of a Link trainer and turned to the Electronics section to help them get it going,
Many hours later and much head massaging and plumbing we had a working machine. Designed to practice instrument flying the trainer was enclosed and connected to a mobile puck that drew a trace of the flight on a separate table nearby.
Interesting story Thanks.
I imagine the electronics section probably told them there was nothing they could do with it, since it mainly operated on pneumatic systems.
Excellent! In your presentation you mentioned barnstorming. During the 1920’s my mother taught one-room-country-school which had the 8 elementary grades in a little school house. One day a barnstormer landed his plane in the field next to the school and mom called a recess because nothing would be accomplished with the plane sitting just outside. The pilot told the kids how much a ride would cost, but my mother, seeking a tactful way to refuse, told him that no-one had the fare. The kids ran into the school and returned with mom’s purse, opening it and showing the pilot mom’s rent money. Her ploy having failed mom told the pilot that one child could go if sitting on her lap and that the plane had to stay within sight of the school. The boy who drew the short straw was thrilled. His parents thanked mom and invited her to dinner. She later learned that the kid became a navy pilot. Imagine the furor if a teacher did that today.
Wonderful story, thanks for sharing!
>> Imagine the furor if a teacher did that today.
Especially the "boy sitting on her lap" bit.
Imagine seeing your invention being reverse engineered right in front of your eyes and knowing you'll never gonna sell any more of your stuff.
Practically every country does it. America, especially via the CIA are well known for doing it with tech from other countries then moan when they have it done to them. It is pretty much common practice then and now.
It’s all a game of espionage
@@anarchyantz1564 I’m surprised you didn’t say China they are the biggest offenders.
@@i-vlog1994 Only if you believe American propaganda. I take it you realise the American government has for years raided patents from the paten office for good ideas for their "projects". Everyone is as bad as each other.
@@anarchyantz1564
The RAF also trained in the US during the war. My father trained (as a member of the US Army Air Corp) in Terrell ,Texas, at No 1 BFTS (British Flying Training School) with the RAF, the museum there has a Link trainer on display.
That was a man with skill. I'm sure we should be thanking him a lot more, with out his trainer we may have had a different out come in WWII.
Probably one of the neatest stories Ive watched on this channel in a while. That's nothing against the previous topics, of course, but this one was just neat.
Hey Simon for a future video please do one on the origin of the wearing a cape
Yea!! I like this! Iconic item that goes back centuries but I still have no idea why it exists. If he doesn’t I might just have to research myself haha
@@ivantheterrible8506 it seems to be a pretty standard step in the evolution of garments.
No capes!!!
Yes cape
well back in the middle ages it was a way of keeping warm and showing off your wealth it was also a bit of a garment cover some being worn to keep mud or dirt from getting on the clothes you wore underneath. As for why superheroes wear them, they originally did it as a kind of callback to professional wrestlers who often wore capes while making flashy entrances into the ring.
Plus capes can be drawn to look very dynamic and add to a figure's imposing look or style.
Additionally capes are just cool! I wish society would stop pressuring people to stick with fashion styles of the modern age. There's plenty of people I know who would happily wear capes and cloaks and similar clothes all the time if not for the strange looks they might get in public.
I'm sure my Dad learned in one of those. He often talked about having to sit in a closed simulator and "fly" on instruments alone.
This was the beginning of my Dad’s old company I never knew about! Very exciting to hear the origins of the company that became Singer-Link simulations. They made many major simulators from most major Military aircraft as well as all the aerospace simulators from Gemini to Apollo to the space shuttle. My dad did them all, and even was on the team that brought the simulations that brought Apollo 13 home. He passed away this past December so I thank you for telling this tale since he cannot tell them to me anymore.
I've been a simulator technician for 30+ years. It's been a fun, interesting, and challenging career. I actually got a chance to fly one of Mr. Links trainers in Altus, OK. You can see one on display at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH.
There was a flight school on the airport next to the Civil Air Patrol facility, where I was a cadet back in the early 70s. The school had a Link trainer and gave our squadron access to it for cadet training one time. By the time my turn came up it would do nothing but spin around the vertical axis. It turned out that some line had come loose so it would not respond to control inputs. We never got to use the trainer again.
I trained instrument flight in Link Trainers in 1980, my fourth and final year as a cadet in the Brazilian Air Force Academy. There were 10 units then. Very good simulator.
Telegram sent by US Mail pilot to Head Office: "Enging cut out. Landed on cow. Got scared."
Great story! Mr. Link must have been a very brilliant and talented guy.
idk, running into people's homes and randomly smashing their pots sounds like a dick move to me...
@@the_hanged_clown you misunderstand, he was looting their houses for financial gain... wait
I started work for Singer-Link in 1983 and eventually retired from Lockheed Martin in 2018 as Chief Engineer on an Aircrew Training System program. I spent a lot of time at the Binghamton, NY facility. I worked in flight simulation for 45 years and it is amazing to see how technology continues to evolve in flight simulation. I really enjoyed watching this video and the designs that Link developed to make this work are really amazing. Thank you!
I worked on the Link F-106 Flight Simulator for 10 Yrs 1975-1985 at K.I. Sawyer AFB Michigan.
Simon: A lot of you out there, probably have health and fitness goals...
Me: I thought we saved the jokes for Business Blaze?
You, friend, have achieved Legend status! Brilliant! 🤣
Anyone else get triggered at 6:48? #freedanny
Your quote about the trainers reminded me of the saying that British military victories could be attributed to the playing fields of Sandhurst. This ties in nicely to another video I saw on You Tube comparing the American school system with that of Finland. We all need to play more.
I used to work for L3-Link, heading up the team who produce the 3D graphics sub-systems for modern flight simulators. We did have a "Blue Box" sitting in a glassed off display area in the building - but nobody got to fly in it, and as I understand it, maintaining the weird mixture of organ parts and pneumatics was something of a nightmare. A number of people who worked for Link in the Binghamton office formed their own company rather than relocating to Texas where L3 were situated. That company is called "Diamond Visionics" - who are still in Binghamton - and whom I work for today.
The Blue box was really a kind of crude analogue computer - effectively performing calculations using air pressure and piston positions and such.
I "flew" the example at CAE in Dallas. I've also flown the $75,000,000+ Level D simulators. Truly amazing how far technology has come in just 80 years!
Really liked the "human" element you brought to that one. The trainer was and is a game changing invention- to hear some of the story of the man who created it and his bumpy ride to get there demonstrates the persistence and perseverance of the human spirit. Thanks!
Interesting thing I heard yesterday, commercial pilots have complained to the FAA that they are so out of practice that they're making a lot of mistakes
True. Working toward my commercial pilot license and every time I ask an airline pilot anything they seem lost while the other students and flight instructors are a well of knowledge.
@@IAmARealHumanPerson well good luck to you in getting the license
An out-of-practice pilot today was recorded as saying "Roger, Roger, give us our vector, Victor."
@@MandleRoss LMFAO!!! 😂😂😂😂 And don't call me Shirley!
Thank you very much. I had a very good friend who was the CEO of Link when they were bough out. Very cool company and a lot of smart people working there.
A great video walk down memory lane. We had one of these at school in the 1970s. The subject of almost continuous restoration of questionable efficacy, it was a somewhat temperamental beast but when it worked it was brilliant and with the lid closed, extremely difficult to fly. If you banked it over more than 45 degrees, the aged, leaky bellows weren't strong enough to regain level flight so the supervising schoolmaster would have to push it upright or manhandle you out of the cockpit to avert disaster.
Way back when I was a kid the miniature golf course in Hollywood had a plane that looked like this. It had a open cockpit with a long pole on the nose. In front of the plane was a wall with a map of the world with a small rod sticking out from major city's. The object was to maneuver the plane to touch the rods and I believe a buzzer went off when touched.
Hell yeah! I’m from Binghamton NY this was so cool. The site of the piano company is now a parking garage and has a mural dedicated to Link. The markers for the parking sections are little pictures of the simulator.
My Father was a professional pilot for years following WWII. When I was around 11 years old, one of the flight services he worked for had Link Trainer and I got to spend some time in it. My Father and the moderator of the trainer said that even though I was on instruments only, I did a decent job of flying it. Later, the trainer was retired and I was presented the small propeller that it had. I'm 65 now and that propeller may be somewhat battered, it is on the wall in my living room today.
Excellent, as usual. I've seen Link simulators in stock footage of countless aviation documentaries without a single mention. Always wondered if they were widespread or just for show. Now I know!
They have one of those at the WWII Aviation Museum in Colorado Springs. It's pretty neat.
The entire museum is pretty awesome, if you ever have a chance to make it there, it's totally worth the price of admission.
Sweet! I'm moving to Sioux Falls later this month so I'll definitely plan a trip. Thanks for the info!
@@e.b.1728 No problem at all. I actually live in California, but my in-laws live there. So on our last trip to visit them we went to the museum. Really glad we did.
Excellent video. It was interesting to see the genesis of the simulators that I “flew” in the USAF and the airline. They have indeed come a long way!
I was employed by Link Flight Simulation for five years back in the 80s. I built C130 and P3C simulators and loved it. It was a great company! Binghamton does not have a “p” in it.
I am so impressed! First at the obscure choice of subject, secondly, of the excellence and thoroughness of the piece. Well written, great b-roll, as always well presented by the Voice of Knowledge, kudos all around. I have an aviation obsession, but never knew the story of the Link Trainer. It's vacuum system makes perfect sense with its shared player piano heritage. I want one. However the miles of rubber vacuum tubing would make it's prolonged existence rather labor intensive. Still....Christmas is coming.
The name of the field at our, KBGM Greater Binghamton Airport, is Edwin A Link Field in honor of him. There is a simulator on display in the terminal lobby.
Oh damn, my airline used L3 solutions to simulate the E170 for training. It was used as a desktop tool on a computer for basic fms function and automation, to a full simulator with functioning controls but no movement.
Then it was to the fancy like 50 million dollar Sims at flight safety.
Kind of neat to know what the training I have has roots to the beginning of simulators
My father was a corsair pilot in WW2 for the USMC. He went to work for United Air Lines after the war. When I was young (maybe 7 or 8) dad took me in the flight crew area of UAL at LAX. There was a link trainer. That probably was 1956. Definitely used by UAL.
I flew helicopters for the Army and used Link simulators all during my career. I heard bits and pieces the name Link was named for the founder but really enjoyed the video explaining the whole story. Brilliant man and what a great contribution to aviation.
I'd heard about some dinosaur of a simulator that only taught a pilot the difference between roll, pitch, and yaw, but I didn't think a pneumatic instrument trainer in the thirties was even possible!
knew about Link trainers but really appreciated the in depth look into their history, thanks.
An FBO that was a few doors down from where I was fling out of had a working Link trainer. They kindly gave me a few minutes in one. It was awesomeness.
Watching the Noom promo while tucking into kebab meat and chips
I was shoveling pancakes and bacon into my talking box, so yeah, I feel ya! My inner fat kid sneered at my phone during that ad. He loves Bacon Time.
One of them people that can justifiably stick his middle finger up at his disbelieving father... :P
Sorry dad I didn't hear your criticism I was too busy helping man achieve utter dominion over the heavens and ocean deeps
They have a few of these at the US Army Aviation museum at Fort Rucker, AL. Great place to see some weird stuff from American military history.
Hearing about Cessna and their humble beginnings, makes my heart happy. Although a small footnote, the fact that businesses in my state had/has a hand in history. #KansasProud.
I once read a book by Michael Bentine, the British comedian, who served as an intelligence officer in the RAF during WW2. He told a story about a trainee RAF pilot who was practicing instrument flying in a Link Trainer one evening. Unknown to the young pilot, one of the thick 'black-out' curtains across the windows was loose and a thin beam of light was visible; the only visible light on the entire airbase. The next thing the young pilot knew, a burst of machine-gun fire blew the Link Trainer across the building. A prowling German night-fighter had spotted the light and decided to try a shot. The trainee pilot escaped with minor injuries but as far as Bentine knew he was the only man in history to be shot down in a Link Trainer!
And I just signed them to a new contract to build a cutting edge simulator capability undreamed of back in those days. Good show, Simon!
Will it have full range of motion? (360 degrees in every direction)
@@Colt45hatchback it will link multiple simulators and actual air craft. HALOX10
Your factory pumps out some very good stuff (I would say it’s qualifying for a good old “How It’s Made” video 😎 ) but this was probably my favourite of them all! Great stuff!
As a student of WWII I appreciate this video. I had no idea they were so detailed! Thanx for this. -- I can only imagine what the PC and X Box crowd are going to do with their experience. I cant help but think every single one of them will turn out to be the best fliers in the world.
Little-known fact: In later life, Edwin Link Jr. actually did some consulting work for Nintendo when they were developing the NES. His invention wasn't used in that system, but they gave him credit nonetheless by naming one of the game characters after him.
Edwin Link's contribution was later used in the Game Boy, in the form of the Link Cable.
Link fsd also built the first full- "immersion" space shuttle simulator for trsining shuttle crew.
We had a Link Trainer in our school's Combined Cadet Force building. That was in the mid sixties.
In the early 1960s my home room at McKinley Technical HS had most of the WWII aviation gear still intact, but not used. The blue Link trainer had pride of place along with a radial engine, several wooden propellers and other items....what a way to start the school day for an entire academic year....good times.
They have one of those types of trainers at the MAAM near where I live. It's very interesting and very boring at the same time.
Same thing at the war plain heritage museum near me. My college had a partnership with them and we had classes there. I’d fly it during lunch break.
@@gilliesiut2332 warplane?
@Randy Rinker Yeah same. I've always wanted to take a ride in one of the B-25's
Does the one at MAAM work? I’ve never seen it while I’ve been there. The P-61 is coming along nicely
@@johnbeauvais3159 I don't think so? I haven't been to the museum in years now
We had a neighbor, a 'lonely old guy with odd hobbies' that every neighborhood seems to have, and he had a Link Trainer in his garage.
He'd keep it running, gave it a beautiful paint-job and let kids take 'flying lessons'.
Well, it was too good to be true; he would whisper nasty suggestions under his breathe while acting as Air Traffic Control on the radio he had installed.
Word got out that he was perving on the kids, his garage burned down one night...
Sad about the Link.
Born and raised in Binghamton (it is funny that an Englishman can pronounce it better than many in the US). There are still several of the WWII era trainers, in working(ish) condition in the Binghamton area. Just cool to see the hometown pop up on a tube channel seen by so many! Cheers
The engineering on this is far beyond what I expected from a vacuumed cleaner controlled bellows… we have a working one in Peachtree City Georgia. This will properly simulate the nose rise or drop based on improper use of the rudder… all from channeled airflow.
This man lived a full, fruitful and world changing life. People like him don't come around too long and it's honestly hard to grasp how much of an effect he really had on the world because of the specific types of technology, but it was definitely significant.
Ha I used one of those in Air Cadets as a 14 year old...later as an adult became a Commercial helicopter pilot ..18000 hrs just retired this year at age 68...really going to mis flying
You can still fly. My father is 66 and is a private pilot instructor who specializes in advanced techniques. He flies all the time.
The Air Ministry even had a specially designed building to contain Link trainers.
They can be found at most Expansion Period RAF stations.
There's a tiny little aviation museum in southern iowa, that had one of these simulators as an exhibit. I remember playing with the thing as a kid.
A small aviation museum an hour's drive from Stockholm, Sweden, has one that is funtional.
It is usually not available for hire, as are/were their other simulators (sans Covid). There are very few
instructors with the knowledge to supervise it, and it is a rather old thing... but it is there and I
have seen it working once. Remarkable thing. A lot of huffin' n puffin' from it's bellows.
@@bodan1196 the one in Iowa was somewhat less than functional. The museum was fairly 'hands on' though. You could walk right up to the old planes, and even open up doors to peek around inside
@@jasonarcher7268 Same. You get very close to the aircraft.
It is also what is called a flying musem, where most of the aircrafts are privetly owned and flown. There are also a couple of examples of the "made in Sweden" aka "Made by SAAB" military fighters, not flying though. But you can sit in one, and there are some simulators.
It is a non-profit museum driven by the aircraft owners.
Short clip about: ruclips.net/video/gc4K1IJIJfs/видео.html
The Link trainer was actually called the Link Blue Box by those of us that worked there and not “the pilot maker”. I never heard that.
We have one of these at an aircraft museum near us. Love these little guys.
I really don’t know how I would waste time if not for Simon and his RUclips channels. Awesome.
....that moment when Simon says the name of your hometown
Huntington, Indiana?
Gananoque?
Link was a badass. He had "the Right Stuff" decades before THAT term became a "thing". Cessna becoming the "Ford" of General Aviation, And Link's training idea are 2 reasons that the US leads the world in civilian flight. (13,000 airports... 1/3 of ALL airports on EARTH are in the US, and Most of them are "civilian" I.E for private owned planes.) For the record, China (Obviously, the most populated nation on Earth..) has a mere 500 airports. This is 1/26 of the number of US airports! It's awesome that Mr. Link got the FIRST Cessna!
This was a beautiful tribute to him thank you
I saw one of these at a small museum in Leavenworth Kansas. I'm not sure that it's still open.
My high school had one of those! Yes we had a 3 year flight program part of the shops offered
You lucky bastard! Wish my high school would've had a flight program. They never would've gotten rid of me!
I am an airline pilot and instrument flight instructor. I have flown through severe turbulence, at night, with zero visibility with icing conditions, single pilot without any form of autopilot without any problems. I fear no airplane. But that thing... it scares me.
From what I have read, there was a gentleman named Gene Whitt, who with his student were the first (and only?) people to bail out from a Link trainer (without parachutes though)! There was a fire...
My employer was a Link trainer operator in the Army Air Corps in the 1940s during his enlistment just at the end of hostilities in WW II.
I've seen this simulator before! I finally found out about something before Simon! Or at least before he made a video of it.
With no proof or information to boot... Ever seen a grown man alternate between digging at his ass and sniffing his fingers? Because no one cares.
We had one of these link trainers at my air cadet squadron some years ago. Hadn’t works right in years so we put a computer in it with flight simulator 10. Apparently someone took it home to restore it and I haven’t seen it since.
As a teenager I was a Civil Air Patrol Cadet. Our squadron was small but in our little building sat a genuine Link Trainer. Unfortunately it was incomplete and inoperable. How I wished I could have hopped into the thing and done a simulated flight.
Later on I did get a chance to fly a sailplane at an encapment at Griffiths Air force base. I flew the entire half hour flight except for release from the tow plane and the last thirty feet of the landing. I believe that I was allowed to fly most of the half hour because I mentioned to the instructor that I grew up on aviation stories as my dad flew during the heyday of biplanes and I was in "ground school" for most of my childhood. Unbeknownst to my mother he continued flying until passing away of a heart attack in the late sixties.
Dad wanted to teach me to fly but my mother absolutely forbade it. I believe she thought it too dangerous, ironic since as an adult I became an SCCA club racing driver in formula cars as flying was too expensive. Every time I left for a track at o dark thirty in the morning she would break down in tears from anxiety, poor woman.
As a cadet I came in second in a contest and was supposed to get some free flying lessons but they never happened. I did have a lot of fun flying as a passenger on many Air Force and Air National Guard aircraft. I still get a kick out of flight on the rare occasions when I have to take a commercial airline flight.
-dave
Never let others, including your parents, dictate what you should become. Listen to your heart!
Incidentally, the movements of the simulator do not necessarily correlate to the maneuvers being simulated. E.g: a straight and level acceleration will be simulated by tilting the nose up.
Oh boy. As someone that lives near the city of the second factory, I hear a lot of misperceptions of it's name 'Gananoque'. But that's that first time I've heard someone drop the last syllable
I know I had to play it twice to confirm what he actually said. I grew up just north of there now live in the city just west
We have a Link Blue Box trainer in my home town here in upstate NY and a couple more in nearby Binghamton.
I remember seeing one of those in the Royal Museum of Military History in Brussels, I was always curious about it
The dilemma of developing new technologies and consequently the need to find new markets.... but not countries that may end up using your own tech against you...
Good video 👍
I was going to tell a joke about trickle down economics but decided that 99% of you will never get it.
Lol! I remember Ronald Reagan too.
I have 3.3 hours in my logbook in a Link from 1991. I see one every 6 months when I go to the Boeing Simulator Center in KMIA. Expertly restored!
***Elmer Ambrose Sperry might make a neat Biographics. The father of modern navigation technology, he is. Battleship guns, electric cars, portable batteries, autopilots, gyroscopes. Whole buncha stuff. I might know a thing or two about him.
Hope you can do more on simulators before digital computers. I think I watched on an old Discovery wings where the image displayed is from a camera guided on a scale model of the terrain.
This one has a mechanical landscape model. But it is operated by a computer.
FLIGHT SIMULATOR 1975
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5:30 1998? Okay that’s a major typo
But yes, I’ve seen one of these. I thought the thing was some old time toy for rich kids that was put in the local aviation museum.
I would love to hear about the Dutch/New Orleans USA levi system.
Hi just watched your video. And had no idea that these were made in gananoque. A little town very close to where I live. And to be such a big part of the war effort. Wow. I learned something today.
They have one of those in the San Diego Air and Space museum along with a turret trainer
funny thing: i live next to where they make these. used to work there. got fired because of boredom antics. There was a map of the world on the wall of a breakroom, and i spent weeks moving the giant pins, one at a time, away from the places their simulators were deployed, to the capitals of enemy countries. was it dumb? yeah. was it hilarious to hear that it was the CEO that spotted it, during a staff meeting? Yes. Yes it was.
"Holistic" is one keyword that is a big red flag for me on a health product/service
We had one of these at the ATC squadron I used to go to :)
Really enjoyed this video, what an incredible man.
We have one of the units in our lobby at the Boeing Tukwila site.
Another example of that mythical "greatest generation" doing something technical without any computer.
Just one of the many reasons they were known as the "Greatest Generation" 👍
Surprising that the analogue device even had a plotter to draw the route the pilot had flown.
Pretty impressive considering the transistor and solid state computers were still years in the future.
pneumatic control systems are still fairly common in industry - not new stuff, but old stuff still being used.
We actually had one in my high school "Aeroscience" class.
I went to the Charlotte N.C. air museum, and I think that they have one of these there in the museum. Kind of cool. I didn't know all the facts about this.