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From Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The term\u00a0Link Trainer<\/b>, also known as the “Blue box” and “Pilot Trainer”[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0is commonly used to refer to a series of\u00a0flight simulators<\/a>\u00a0produced between the early 1930s and early 1950s by the\u00a0Link Aviation Devices, Inc<\/b>, founded and headed by\u00a0Ed Link<\/a>, based on technology he pioneered in 1929 at his family’s business in\u00a0Binghamton, New York<\/a>. During\u00a0World War II<\/a>, they were used as a key pilot training aid by almost every combatant nation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Link Trainer at the Stockton Field Aviation Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The original Link Trainer was created in 1929 out of the need for a safe way to teach new pilots how to fly by\u00a0instruments<\/a>. Ed Link used his knowledge of\u00a0pumps<\/a>,\u00a0valves<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0bellows<\/a>\u00a0gained at his father’s\u00a0Link Piano and Organ Company<\/a>\u00a0to create a flight simulator that responded to the pilot’s controls and gave an accurate reading on the included instruments. More than 500,000\u00a0US<\/a>pilots were trained on Link simulators,[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0as were pilots of nations as diverse as\u00a0Australia<\/a>,\u00a0Canada<\/a>,\u00a0Germany<\/a>,\u00a0United Kingdom<\/a>,\u00a0Israel<\/a>,\u00a0Japan<\/a>,\u00a0Pakistan<\/a>, and the\u00a0USSR<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n