Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 67 — page 46: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION can be created in the simulator without fear of loss of life or equipment. Such situations include: engine failure or malfunction, overspeeding-en- gines, complete loss of engines, icing, electrical system failure including inverter failure, over- voltage on generators, circuit breaker failure, and many mechanical failures caused by breakdowns. The simulator also provides for detailed instruction ‘in instrument flying and radio navigation. The flight in- structor has four recorders—a ground position recorder, an azimuth and range recorder for approaches, and an alti- tude and glide path deviation recorder for use with instru- ment approach and landing systems—for reference during and after the flight. The simulator itself is a complex and precise mechan- ism, a_ self-contained unit less than 24 feet long, 23 feet wide and 10 feet high, and occupies approximately 545 square feet. The flight control centre of the simulator is the flight instructor’s console. This contains remote flight and engine indicators which provide the instructor with the same information available in the cockpit. In addition, monitoring lights on the con- sole panels keep him con- stantly aware of the status of the simulator’s flight. There are also variation controls and switches which enable him to affect the engine and aircraft systems as the prob- lem demands. The radar instructor’s con- sole is fixed against the rear wall of the simulator adjacent to the cockpit. On it are all the controls and recorders which govern radar simulation. The radar console also con- tains controls for governing the radio systems, transmitters and type and amplitude of static. And so there you are. Already mechanisms have been constructed to simulate dan- gerous conditions in safety so as to train aircrews. It is but a step further to build a more complicated mechanism which will duplicate the hazardous conditions of space flight. The aerodynamics will be 4) relatively simple, but simulat- ing high-G acceleration, the abrupt change from high gravity to free fall, the spin- ning and noise, the simulating of, as yet, imperfectly known conditions, will tax the in- genuity of the engineers to the utmost, comicloolks.com