Giant Analog Flight Simulator (Dec, 1958)

Found this & thought i'd share it here.
( i would have been two years old when this was published)

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/...ght-simulator/

Cheers
Gerry

In apx 1972 at KSFO I was able to watch a Pan AM 707 crew work out in a flight sim similar to the DC-8 one, no motion or visuals. The crews control of the aircraft during an engine failure on take offr was amazing.

I should have mentioned (oops) there are a few pages to this article & i love the page that shows the computer room ,it's the size of a house & it's full .

Also a quick read reveals ,for the visuals a model runway & airfield is filmed on closed circuit tv & fed back to the cockpit.
In fact that whole site has very entertaining images & front covers & articles of magazines of times gone by , great stuff.

Very very cool Gerry thanx for that bit of history :)I had no idea thats how they projected the image to pilots back then. wow extremely enlightening.

Tim
A340
Canada

The old harrier sim at RAF wittering used to be just like this.... a huge room with a very large, small scale model of the Air Base and surrounding countryside, with a large camera that "flew" over the model. for visuals in cloud there was a portion set-aside with cotton wool in it... it's true!