At the beginning of World War II, we were simulating a phase of flying in a device known as the Link Trainer. This ingenious gadget was utilized by the Army Air Corps and Navy Aviation to help ...

GUNTERSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - A Navy plane used to train pilots for World War II has now found a home at the Guntersville Airport. It's an SNJ, the Navy version of the Army's T6 (sometimes called a Texan) ...

It was key to the Allied victory during World War II, with more than 500,000 U.S. pilots trained on Link simulators. "I had the most interesting job in the Navy," the 95-year-old Salem resident ...

For the unfamiliar, the Link Trainer was designed in the 1920s by Edwin Link of Binghamton, New York. During World War II, Link trainers were used extensively to train pilots to fly by instruments.

Among the most well-known of Link's designs was the AN-T-18, also known as the Army-Navy Trainer Model 18.This version was widely adopted for military use during World War II. At the heart of the ...

104-year-old World War II veteran Denver Moore is celebrated with parade and party. ... Moore was drafted in 1942 and served as a link trainer instructor with the U.S. Army Air Corps.

In recent years, driving simulator training has been conducted at automobile schools, and you can experience full-scale flight simulation on home video game machines with ' Microsoft Flight ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...