Description

Ralph E. Kimball leans into and adjusts flight table control mechanisms in MIT's flight simulator.

Original caption: "The heart of the flight simulator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is this gimbal flight table which moves in the same way as would the aircraft whose flight performance is being checked by the machine. Here Ralph E. Kimball, executive officer of the M.I.T. Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory in adjusting the flight table control mechanisms. Above his head is a radar antenna which is part of the automatic control equipment for the theoretical aircrafts being studied. For Release in Morning Papers of Friday, January 13 1950."