• Small fake forests and tiny houses are displayed on a panel that looks like it could be part of a model train set. This is actually simulated terrain that helped train fighter pilots.
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    Before computers, U.S. fighter pilots trained for missions by using scale models of terrain, over which passed a television camera. Pilot trainees saw images in the simulator that corresponded to what they would see if flying over that terrain.

  • Small fake forests and tiny houses are displayed on a panel that looks like it could be part of a model train set. This is actually simulated terrain that helped train fighter pilots.

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November 03, 2010

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