CORPORATIONS: The Busiest Link

The man who has taught more pilots to fly than anybody else in history is Edwin Albert Link. Since 1929, Link has made and sold 4,500 trainers (i.e., simulators for flying, bombing, navigation) on which more than 2,000,000 pilots and other airmen have learned the feel of flying while still on the ground. Last week, at United Air Lines' Denver flight school, Link put into service his latest and most costly commercial trainer, a $1 million electronic marvel that includes a full cockpit with all the controls and dials of a Douglas...

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