12 Mechanical Flight Sims from Aerospace’s Analog Era

And you thoughttesting the F-117was a feat ? In the solar day before buildinga full - scurf 737 mock - up in your garagewas possible , flight schooltime and even NASA relied on mechanical simulators to take fender . Our friends at Oobject have collected12 of the most advanced simulatorsof the daylight .

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Be sure to also check out theseimpressive aircraft factories , someswanky airline cabins , and thesePOV plane landings .

Cockpit of the Link Celestial Navigation Trainer

Link Celestial Navigation Trainer

Note how insanely large and complex this is – the sprightliness size cockpit in in the center .

The Hagner Planetarium, Celestial Navigation Trainer

A row of early Link trainers in a hangar

Dual Cockpit, CONVAIR NC-131H Total In-Flight Simulator

This is not two planes next to each other but one plane with two cockpits

1909 Training Rig for the Antoinette Aircraft

Poster for Edwin A. Link’s Flight Trainer, 1930s

Blind Flying in a Dummy Plane, 1936

Volmer Jensen in His Penguin Flight Trainer

Seaplane Trainer with Shortened Wings, 1915

First flight simulator based on an octahedral hexapod, hydraulic platform, mid-1960s

Wooden Mock-ups of the Apollo Space Capsule

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