An Early Flight Simulator Helped Pilots Learn the Ropes
Briefly

"The only way to learn to fly in adverse conditions was to fly in adverse conditions. That changed with devices like the blue machine..."
"The apparatus was an early flight simulator. It was made of wood, like the aircraft it mimicked, and also cannibalized pipe-organ parts..."
"Bosgang said the lineage of flight simulators ran directly from that one to the $4.89 billion military simulator market, as well as to simulators used in..."
"The new museum, the Sands Point Preserve Navy Simulation Museum, will open on Monday on the Sands Point Preserve, a onetime Navy research-and-development center."
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