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Link C-3 Flight Trainer
Society: ASME Main Category: Aerospace & Aviation Sub Category: Aviation Era: 1930-1939 DateCreated: 1935 Roberson Museum and Science Center

Binghamton State: NY Zip: 13905 Country: USA Website: https://www.asme.org/about-asme/who-we-are/engineering-history/landmarks/210-link-c-3-flight-trainer Creator: Link, Edwin

During the 1920s, Edwin A. Link was employed in his father's organ building and repair business. He obtained his pilot's license in 1927 and became convinced that a mechanical device could be built as an inexpensive method to teach basic piloting. Link received three patents on his flight trainer (No. 1,825,462, March 12, 1930; No. 2,244,464, June 3, 1941; and No. 2,358,016, Sept. 12, 1944).

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2000
Image Credit: Courtesy Wikipedia/Tony Speer Image Caption: An early flight simulator representative of the first truly effective mechanical device used to simulate actual flight processes. Era_date_from: 1935
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Link C-3 Flight Trainer

During the 1920s, Edwin A. Link was employed in his father's organ building and repair business. He obtained his pilot's license in 1927 and became convinced that a mechanical device could be built as an inexpensive method to teach basic piloting. Link received three patents on his flight…

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