Discovering one of the worlds first flight simulators! WW2 Link Trainer

Alex finds the cockpit for a rare link trainer from WW2, then somehow manages to find the body over 1000 miles away!
watch the pick up of the body and learn a little about this historical first flight simulator!

[allanedwards]

I was a US Navy flight simulator instructor starting out with the venerable link in 1953 at Corry Field, Pensacola Florida. I was trained first to maintain them and then to instruct budding USN & USMC Cadets in instrumentT flight
and cross-country navigation. It was a marvelous machine and I learned about the intricacies of electromechanical analog systems. It was somewhere between a glorified Church organ and a player piano, both of which Edwin Lake had in his background. I learned first-hand that He was a genius.
I don't know how old is video is but I sure hope you get this thing working so people can enjoy it. Please let me know if I can ever offer any of my background on it. Allan Edwards USNAIR Tradevman petty officer 1st class (E6) 1953-1957

[thatguy]

I’ve got to fly in one. Amazing piece of machinery.

[Bellthorian]

I would check the gages with a Geiger counter. The luminous paint they used on them turned out to be pretty radio active so for safety sake check them out.

[raymoreton]

Cool that takes me back, I used to be in the Air Training Corps as a teenager and they had a whole room with two working ones which I used a couple of times.

[claycountybrian]

Greetings from Clay Co. Missouri!
I'm pretty sure they were still using something like this at E-RAU in Daytona Beach when I was there in the early '80's.
NOT sure it was this exact model. I was in the Aviation Maintenance program and only took ground school instruction.
Maybe they had an updated model, but ALOT of the AMT equipment was military surplus, so idk. Or can't remember. TMF
Thanks again for taking me along! Best of Luck & Happy Hunting!! Oh, and congrats on 160K!

[LeifNelandDk]

It's just the body, right? It doesn't look like it's ever going to "fly" again :-(