Linked Tester
Empire Test Pilots School Hawker-Siddeley Andover C.1 XS606 seen at Shoreham in July 1981 during their annual visit to Singer Link-Miles at nearby Lancing.
This aircraft is fitted with an extended nose mounted pitot tube for use with the ETPS syllabus in giving additional aerodynamic data to the student pilots. It is also in the kneeling position, an ability the Andover had to allow easier access to it's rear ramp for loading.
Back then, Singer Link-Miles was a significant player in the Aircraft Simulation industry - long before computers were making in-roads into their product, each cockpit simulator had a full-blown 3D model to which cameras linked to the simulator traversed the model to make it look as though the machine was flying over actual terrain. The models were stacked vertically and housed intially in their production line which was based in the old Lancing Railway Carriage Works. Once computer graphics took over such a sizeable complex was a costly entity to run and Link-Miles gradually lost their lead and went to the wall some years later.
35mm transparency scanned with an Optek 8200i film & neg scanner
Linked Tester
Empire Test Pilots School Hawker-Siddeley Andover C.1 XS606 seen at Shoreham in July 1981 during their annual visit to Singer Link-Miles at nearby Lancing.
This aircraft is fitted with an extended nose mounted pitot tube for use with the ETPS syllabus in giving additional aerodynamic data to the student pilots. It is also in the kneeling position, an ability the Andover had to allow easier access to it's rear ramp for loading.
Back then, Singer Link-Miles was a significant player in the Aircraft Simulation industry - long before computers were making in-roads into their product, each cockpit simulator had a full-blown 3D model to which cameras linked to the simulator traversed the model to make it look as though the machine was flying over actual terrain. The models were stacked vertically and housed intially in their production line which was based in the old Lancing Railway Carriage Works. Once computer graphics took over such a sizeable complex was a costly entity to run and Link-Miles gradually lost their lead and went to the wall some years later.
35mm transparency scanned with an Optek 8200i film & neg scanner