Link Aviation
Link Aviation was an American aviation simulation company best known as the manufacturer of the Link Trainer, the first mass-produced flight simulator widely adopted by the U.S. military for pilot training. The company was founded by Edwin Link in Binghamton, New York, and became a major defense contractor in flight simulation technology during World War II and the Cold War era.
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In the context of UAP research, Link Aviation is significant as the organization through which Bill Uhouse claimed he was recruited to work on a flying disc simulator at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. According to Uhouse, a company representative invited him to help build simulators including an F-102 simulator, a B-47 simulator, and later a flying disc simulator modeled on the craft recovered in the 1953 Kingman, Arizona Crash Retrieval. Uhouse's account positions Link Aviation as a conduit between conventional defense contractor work and classified UAP-related reverse engineering programs.