Word: mockup
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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With 27 helpers, Rowen got busy. Shunning everything that looked like school, he set up workable, toy-like models of the main parts of a B29, beginning with a propeller that could be operated from an exact replica of B-29 controls, and ending with a mockup of a whole plane in which student reactions could be tested when things went wrong. Charts and graphs of fuel and electrical systems were also converted into full-scale mockups, covered with Plexiglas or painted in bright colors so that students could see what happened when they worked the controls. Result: fascinated trainees...