Re: New LLTV Needed?

In article <11p8j5ubcu6ijb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, flanner@xxxxxxxxxx
says...
> Given the abilities of today's flight simulators, it's probably not
> necessary to rebuild one; especially considering what happened to the
> one Armstrong was flying. :-)

It is worth noting that *after* Armstrong came within 0.2 s of dying in
this beast, and after he landed on the Moon, he repeated fought any
attempt to shut down the Flying Bedstead. He really believed that it was
the best tool available for training a pilot to land on the Moon.

That's particularly telling given that much of Armstrong's work on the
X-15 was getting the simulator to work, and because of that, he had a
lot to do with the Apollo simulators.


> To give you some idea of how well the modern simulators work, all the
> original batch of F-117 stealth fighter pilots made their first flights
> in the aircraft solo and at night- and that was around twenty years ago.

I'm willing to bet that every one of those first flights was by a guy
who had flown other airplanes, landed other airplanes, and flown other
airplanes at night. Heck, I'm even willing to bet that on their first F-
117 landing, they could do a "go around" if things weren't quite right.
--
Kevin Willoughby kevinwilloughby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In this country, we produce more students with university degrees
in sports management than we do in engineering. - Dean Kamen
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