Link trainer

American  

Aeronautics, Trademark.

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

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Link trainer British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of Link trainer

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

Example Sentences

Air Force officer; his wife Peppina, a sergeant in the Air Force, operated a Link trainer in India during World War II.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes the "sims," as they are called, involve only the Houston controllers working with a Gemini mockup, a sort of space-age Link trainer.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Space Tug by Leinster, Murray