Flight Simulators

Abstract

The 893rd Lecture to be given before the Royal Aeronautical Society was held under the auspices of the Belfast Branch on 10th December 1953. Rear Admiral M. S. Slattery, C.B., President of the Belfast Branch, presided, and welcomed the visitors. He expressed the regrets of the Branch that the President of the Society, Sir William Farren, C.B., M.B.E., M.A., F.R.S., F.R.Ae.S., was unable to be present, but welcomed the Secretary, Dr. A. M. Ballantyne.The Branch President, introducing the lecturers, said: —Mr. Ringham is the Manager and Chief Engineer of the Flight Similator Division of Redifon Ltd. He has been connected with the design and development of communication and electronic equipment for over 25 years. He joined Rediffusion (now Redifon Ltd.) in 1939, and worked extensively on the development of navigational training aids during the war years.His co-lecturer is Dr. Cutler, Chief Designer of the Flight Simulator Division of Redifon Ltd. He worked on naval navigational aids with the Admiralty Signal Establishment during the war, returning to the development laboratories in Haslemere at the close of the war in Europe. He re-entered Nottingham University later and obtained his B.Sc, Special Physics, and then did research work and was granted his Ph.D. in 1952.Following the Lecture Rear Admiral Slattery said that it was the practice in the Belfast Branch to present a small memento to lecturers who did them the honour of coming to Belfast and he had much pleasure in presenting the lecturers with a small memento each of Irish linen.The Lecturers presented their paper and then showed a film depicting sections of a simulated flight from Rome to London.

ConVRgence (VRIC) Virtual Reality International Conference Proceedings

“…As VR was first used to describe an ensemble of computer-related tools by J. Lanier, this domain is strongly rooted in technologies and marketing (Krueger, 1991;, thus aiming at recreating a reality specifically depicted on a computer interface (McGovern, 1994). It is important to note that precursors of virtual reality existed long before the advent of computer sciences: applied domains used artificial simulations such as interactive vehicle simulators for pilot formation or evaluation (Lahy, 1927), and even for leisure purposes (see Gigante, 1993;Ringham & Cutler, 1954). These tools used multimodal stimulations synchronized with optic flow (videos) to reproduce real-like situations.…”