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===Flight simulator=== [[File:Link Trainer (WCAM).JPG|thumb|right|Link Trainer at the Western Canada Aviation Museum]] In the 1920s, he developed the [[Link Trainer]], "a fuselage-like device with a cockpit and controls that produced the motions and sensations of flying."<ref name=HOF/><ref>[https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/af/90/f1/d285ed1242b560/US1825462.pdf US patent no.1825462A, (held by Edwin A. Link Jr.), dated 29 September 1931, for a "Combination training device for student aviators and entertainment apparatus ".]</ref> Much of the pneumatic system was adapted directly from technology used in the organ factory;<ref name="Trainer">{{cite web |url=http://www.starksravings.com/linktrainer/linktrainer.htm |title=Link Trainer Restoration |access-date=2011-08-31 |publisher=starksravings.com}}</ref> and, in the 1970s, Link used parts scavenged from an inoperative trainer to help rebuild a Link pipe organ.
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