May 14 saw another exciting major exhibit land at the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum: the original Aurora flight deck simulator.
Without leaving the ground, the pilot – novice or veteran, honing his skills – can experience flight from takeoff to landing in a simulator. Television monitors give views of a flight path, also adding different forms of weather and weather conditions. The unit now at the museum was used at 14 Wing Greenwood from 1980 to 2005, when an updated model was put into use, making the Arcturus aircraft expendable.
A permanent home at the museum is not ready, so the short-term solution is to wrap the unit in plastic storage and make it weather tight. Eventually, as the simulator and display components are developed, visitors will be allowed inside to see how pilots trained before taking to the air in the venerable Aurora aircraft.
Thanks to the 14 Wing Transport, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering moving crew, who did a marvelous job gingerly transporting this fantastic exhibit from hangar storage, across the wing, through the base main gate to its new home here at the museum.
