Super Advanced Torpedo Attack Simulator (Nov, 1946)
Filed under: War — @ 7:44 am
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1946
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1946
Buy on Ebay
Who needs a flight simulator when you’ve got one of these? Wait. Is that a roomba prototype on the left?
Torpedo Attack With these toylike devices the Navy trains its torpedo bomber pilots to hit targets. The cockpit on wheels, the mobile mount for the model carrier and the cart on which the tiny torpedo rides are all driven by electric motors at speeds exactly proportional to their size and the size of the floor. The pilot on the trainer fires the torpedo; the carrier is controlled separately (note operator’s hand at left).
MS Flightsimulator 0.1 (M.S.: Manual steering)
Comment by Spy-J — October 4, 2007 @ 1:25 am
George Gay mentions this in his book “Sole Survivor”. He thought it was the most RETARDED thing he ever saw and tried to get whoever invented it and sold it to the navy exposed for wasteing the taxpayers’ money!.
Comment by KHarn — March 2, 2008 @ 7:14 pm