Aircraft of the ADF -A13 Link Trainer

A13-Link Trainer

In 1935 when A14 in the second series of A numbers was allocated to the Tugan Gannet transport, A13 had been conveniently passed over.

It was considered that allocating this number to an aircraft would invite bad luck. The A13 block thus remained vacant until 1938, when the first of the Link ground based instrument flying trainers arrived. For something that didn’t leave the ground, A13 was considered to be a safe allocation, so these Link ANT-18 “flying boxes” were numbered consecutively from A13-1.

This basic flight trainer had been originally designed in the US by Edwin Link primarily as an amusement park flying simulator. However, with the developments in aviation at this time, this design was also appropriate for adaption as an instrument flying trainer.

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