Link trainer

Aeronautics, Trademark.

1. a ground training device used in instrument-flight training.

Link trainer

noun

1. a ground-training device for training pilots and aircrew in the use of flight instruments Compare flight simulator

Word History and Origins

Origin of Link trainer¹

named after E. A. Link (1904–81), its US inventor

Example Sentences

It was a space flight simulator—a descendant of the Link trainer which once taught plane pilots how to fly.

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