Santos-Dumont No 20 ground trainer
Santos-Dumont No 20 ground trainer circa 1910. An early form of flight simulator whereby the rear fuselage of a Demoiselle (complete with pilot's seat and overhead engine and propeller) was mounted inside a large semicircular track in which the whole device could rotate 90 degrees in each direction, at the same time moving forward on a large three-wheeled chassis
Picture No
10838399
Media ID
48037627
Size
4000px x 2792px
(1.4MB)
Credit
© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library) / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph from The Royal Aeronautical Society Archive
Date
1910
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