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TechStuff Tidbits: The First Flight Simulator

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The First Flight Simulator

The first flight simulator had no computer components at all. It was a purely mechanical system that used air and designed to teach pilots how to fly by instruments alone. Early aviators relied solely on their own sense of sight to navigate, take off and to land.

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