Helicopter flight training device

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1982-12-27

1984-08-07

Grieb, William H.

Education and demonstration

Vehicle operator instruction or testing

Flight vehicle

434 32, 244189, 446 37, G09B 908, A63H 2712

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044641168

ABSTRACT:
This invention provides a helicopter flight training device. The device comprises, in combination, a free-flying, radio-controlled, scale model of a helicopter and a flight station that is a substantially actual size simulation of a helicopter cockpit with its associated individual flight controls. The individual flight controls of the flight station incorporate means to convert their operation into a radio signal transmitted to the scale model helicopter to actuate the appropriate flight controls therein to control the flight thereof. In a preferred embodiment of this invention, the flight station consists of dual flight stations with dual flight controls to facilitate teaching student pilots. The device of this invention provides the utmost in safety to the student and instructor during the early, most hazardous, stages of flight training.

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patent: 3548518 (1970-12-01), McRae
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The World of Model Aircraft, by Guy R. Williams .COPYRGT.1973, Andre Deutsch in Association with Rainbird Reference Books, pp. 168, 172, 173 and 179, 434-32.

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