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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hobby Into Career. The prospect of such spectacular savings in flight training was what spurred Ed Link to invent his first trainer more than 30 years ago while working in his father's piano-and-organ factory in Binghamton, N.Y. Link, whose hobby was flying, saw the need for a training device that would prepare flyers for flying before they had to take a real plane into the air. He and his brother George put together a plane-like gadget, offered to train all comers to fly at $85 a head (v. $25 to $50 per hour...
...company expanded rapidly and during World War II the AN-T-18 Basic Instrument Trainer, known to tens of thousands of fledgling pilots as the Blue Box, was standard equipment at every air-training school in the U.S. and Allied countries. Every advance in planes and missiles brought new Link trainers-for jet fighters and bombers, transpolar celestial navigation, and for the Matador, Sparrow and other missiles. Link trainers are now being used to go through dry runs on test firings of space shots. Says Link: "Some of our missile failures were traced to human errors. In the boredom...
...more laboratory space and capital, Link Aviation, Inc. joined up with General Precision Equipment Corp., a big grab-bag holding and management company that includes 16 other subsidiaries making everything from theater equipment and industrial controls to missile components. Link later became president of the parent company as well as retaining the chairmanship of the Link subsidiary. From an office in Manhattan, he keeps projects popping in G.P.E. plants spread from Pleasantville, N.Y. to Glendale, Calif., while Chairman Hermann Place, a money man, handles the financial end. From $123 million in 1954, sales rose to $185 million...
...years ago, tireless Inventor Link took up another hobby-deep-sea diving. Already, Link has co-developed a deep-sea diver's underwater scooter, a torpedo shaped like a hotel hallway's fire extinguisher that tows a diver along behind. Link is building a 91-ft. Diesel yacht specifically designed for undersea exploration with such gadgets as an underwater metal locater for hunting wrecks and buried treasure, so sensitive it picks up tin cans. Next year, Link hopes to use the boat to explore the sunken Roman seaport of Caesarea, off the coast of Israel...
While flying and deep-sea diving may seem a long way apart, Link says they are not. "In the water and in the air navigation is the main problem, and the main fascination. I simply have applied what I've learned about air navigation...