When I was a kid, one of the adults involved with the youth group I was in took us on a tour of Sand Point NAS where he was a reservist Orion P-3 crewmember. Along with an inside look at the planes and the reflective suits for the airfield firefighters we also were shown a Link Trainer.<br><br>Now it's been more than 50 years, but from what I remember is that instead of being automated like this one it had a wood boom coming out the tail where the test crew manually rotated and tilted the trainer. The only automated part was the graph pen drawing out the course the pilot flew.