WWII Link Trainer Aviation Instrument Control Panel Lamp CC #29 - SOLD

This aircraft instrument panel was used as part of a Link Trainer system during WWII.  Produced between the early 1930s and the early 1950s by Link Aviation Devices Inc.   Created out of the need for a safe way to teach new pilots how to fly by instruments.  Based on technology Ed Link pioneered in 1929 at his family's business in Binghamton, New York.  Link trainer sales came about when the Army Air Corps  took over carriage of the U.S. Air Mail and twelve pilots were killed over a 78 day period due to their unfamiliarity and lack of experience with Instrument flying conditions.  The Link Company expanded rapidly during World War II and became known to tens of thousands of fledgling pilots as standard equipment at every air training school in the United States and Allied nations.  During the war years, Link produced over 10,000 trainers. The Link Flight Trainer has been designated as a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.  More tha