The author experienced a multi-year restored, functional Link Trainer, a mechanical flight simulator from the 1920s crucial for WWII instrument flight training. The Link Trainer's unique design, ...

If you develop wired communications or networking systems using Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Infiniband, or Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface (SAS), you probably are aware of link training.

At the beginning of World War II, we were simulating a phase of flying in a device known as the Link Trainer. This ingenious gadget was utilized by the Army Air Corps and Navy Aviation to help train ...

Virtual reality has seen enormous progress in the past few years. Given its recent surges in development, it may come as a bit of a surprise to learn that the ideas underpinning what we now call VR ...

On this day in aviation history-April 14, 1929-we mark the 96th anniversary of the introduction of the first ground-based flight trainer, developed by aviation pioneer Edwin "Ed" Link. That same year, ...

It was nearly a century ago that Edwin Link invented the ubiquitous Link Fight Trainer, or “Blue Box”, the ground-breaking pilot trainer that arguably helped pave the way for allied victory in World ...