My father just passed away about a week ago, but was a link trainer instructor in the air force for about 20 years from 1943 to 1963. As a kid I remember going out to his shop on base and seeing the link trainers he worked around. I was just looking around on the net for information on them, but all I can find are what they call (I think) a C3 trainer that looks like a small airplane on a pedestal. The link trainers I remember my father working on were large, long and somewhat curved in shape sort of like half of a can laid on its side, just filled with all kinds of vaccuum tubes. Can anyone point me in the direction of finding out more about these machines?
Hello Gene, Is this more the sort of thing? Link AT-10 (apparently) It's from: http://www.simpits.org/articles/museum1/flightsimmuseum.html which has quite a bit of Info on later Link trainers. This chap could be worth an email if you really want some info, looks like he may know a bit too much about 'em, suspect he may also be something to do with the above site: http://home.wanadoo.nl/hjaspers000/ Cheers, Adam.
My father just passed away about a week ago, but was a link trainer instructor in the air force for about 20 years from 1943 to 1963. As a kid I remember going out to his shop on base and seeing the link trainers he worked around. I was just looking around on the net for information on them, but all I can find are what they call (I think) a C3 trainer that looks like a small airplane on a pedestal. The link trainers I remember my father working on were large, long and somewhat curved in shape sort of like half of a can laid on its side, just filled with all kinds of vaccuum tubes. Can anyone point me in the direction of finding out more about these machines? WE had a link trainer in our old ATC sqn hall, can't remember what happened to it but at one time it was fully operational.
