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wrote:
In rec.sport.baseball Cameron Laird wrote:

Primitive flight simulators were in experimental use during
World War I. The famous Link Trainer was developed in 1927-
30. By World War II it was standard in the US and UK for
part of basic pilot training to be in a Link.

And what were these devices called? They weren't called
simulators, were they? Did they have simulated Nazis shooting
simulated bullets at them?

And these "simulators" weren't used by pilots once they had their
wings, were they?