"Pilot Buggy" Trains the Reflexes of Fledgling Airmen
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Ten thousand fledglings of the U.S, Army air corps may make their first “flights” on the ground in a “pilot buggy” developed at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, and already in experimental use at Barksdale Field, Shreveport, La. This pre-flight reflex trainer is a motorized scooter equipped with regulation airplane seat, controls, joystick, rudder pedals, throttle, brake, and .22-caliber gun firing blanks. Its cockpit is suspended so that it responds to the controls, banking, nosing up and down and simulating actual flight conditions while taxiing over the ground. A horn connected with a bank indicator sounds if the student commits an error.
- Title (Dublin Core)
- "Pilot Buggy" Trains the Reflexes of Fledgling Airmen
- Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
- "Pilot Buggy" Trains the Reflexes of Fledgling Airmen
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
- World War II
- Date Issued (Dublin Core)
- 1941-09
- Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
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Popular Mechanics, v. 76, n. 3, 1941
- pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
- 33
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Source (Dublin Core)
- Google books
- References (Dublin Core)
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
- Dayton
- Ohio
- Barksdale Air Force Base
- Shreveport
- Louisiana
- Archived by (Dublin Core)
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
- United States of America
