<p>This history of the Flight Research Center (FRC) Simulation Laboratory (FSL) describes the development of experimental flight-test simulators and the rapid evolution of the computers that made them run. (The FRC was a predecessor of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California.) Gene Waltman has provided a smooth blend of anecdotal narrative and technical jargon that maintains reader interest whether or not the reader is computer literate.</p>

Black Magic and Gremlins: Analog Flight Simulations at NASA's Flight Research Center

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Waltman, Gene L.

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This history of the Flight Research Center (FRC) Simulation Laboratory (FSL) describes the development of experimental flight-test simulators and the rapid evolution of the computers that made them run. (The FRC was a predecessor of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California.) Gene Waltman has provided a smooth blend of anecdotal narrative and technical jargon that maintains reader interest whether or not the reader is computer literate.

Black Magic and Gremlins: Analog Flight Simulations at NASA's Flight Research Center (The NASA History Series)

Administration, National Aeronautics and Space

Black Magic and Gremlins: Analog Flight Simulations at NASA's Flight Research Center. Monograph in Aerospace History, No. 20, 2000 (NASA SP-2000-4520)

First published in 2000 as volume 20 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series. This study contains photographs and illustrations.

NASA History Division

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