[MRCA] [a little OT] Link Pilot Flight Trainer

[Scott Johnson]

This brings back memories.  As a youth, I was gifted a C-3, and over  the
years I restored it to absolutely pristine condition.  After college, I
loaned it to the South Dakota national Guard museum, and later moved it (Via
KC-135) to the Arizona National Guard Museum, where it was displaced by
construction.  It went into storage for about ten years, and through my Air
Force research Labs connection to L-3, found that they were keen on having
as a display at their headquarters, so that's where it is now.  Over the
years I also had a C-8 (postwar) and amassed thousands of parts, all which
have gone to restoration projects, including WPAFB.  Thanks for reminding me
of the pneumatic nightmare that is a Link Trainer!  (The grey item on the
floor by the desk is the regenerative vacuum blower that runs the trainer
mechanics, all of which look like they came from a pipe organ, which they
kind of did, but that's another story!

 

Scott V. Johnson W7SVJ

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Scottsdale, AZ 85254-3636

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Subject: [MRCA] [a little OT] Link Pilot Flight Trainer

 

Saw this on ebay.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Link-Pilot-Flight-Trainer-WWII-ANT-18-C-3-w-Instruc
tor-Desk-Plotter-Radio-Books/333430873550

 

I am pretty sure I saw one of these at the Write Patterson AFB museum. Very
cool including the mapping desk!

 

 

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