Link trainer

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Link trainer

(Aeronautics) trademark a ground-training device for training pilots and aircrew in the use of flight instruments. Compare flight simulator

[named after E. A. Link (1904–81), its US inventor]

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Noun

Link trainer - an early form of flight simulator

flight simulator, trainer - simulator consisting of a machine on the ground that simulates the conditions of flying a plane

trademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product

Translations

simulateur de vol

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Grounded briefly for physical reasons, she mastered the Link trainer and instrument flying.

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Caption: An original 1942 Link Trainer, nicknamed the "Blue Box" by World War II pilots, as displayed at Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) in Orlando, Fla.

Virtual becoming reality: the next training evolution: the way the U.S. Navy trains its pilots and aircrew is changing

There's no Redbird in range so you do it in your aviation museum's Link Trainer.

The quiz

In 1943 my first wife enlisted in the second call-up of Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) and served as a Link Trainer operator, teaching pilots in training various maneuvers.

Regarding women in combat

The photo of the Link Trainer on page 5 could have been of the unit in which I took my first flight training, the summer of 1967.

Linkage

The Link trainer (named for its creator, Ed Link) resembled a very small airplane with an opaque canopy.

Crash course

Taught pilot simulation with a Link Trainer in Pensacola, Fla.

FRANK H. RILE RAYMOND LAFERTY BARBARA BROWN LEONARD JENSEN CHARLES GRISWOLD KENNETH HATLELID PRESTON CALLISON HENRY DIZNER

A MiG link trainer (KTS-4), capable of simulating all manoeuvres, a very useful aid for pilots training was also installed in 1967.

Air Marshal Kumaria on a two-day visit to Air Force Station Chandigarh

During the war and afterwards, the Link Trainer helped prepare more than half a million aircrew members.