This publication relates the important history of the Propulsion
Controlled Aircraft project at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center
and describes the development of the Flight Research Center
Simulation during the period from 1955 to 1975. These are the years
in which analog computers were used as a major component of every
flight simulation that was mechanized in support of the many
different flight research project at the High-Speed Flight Station
(HSFS-redesigned the Flight Research Center FRC] in 1959 and the
Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC] in 1976). Initially, analog
computers were used along with a ground-based cockpit for these
simulators. This started in 1955. In 1964 a small scientific
digital computer was bought and added to the X-15 simulator. This
was the start of the hybrid (combined analog and digital) computer
period of flight simulators. Both of these periods are covered in
this document. This publication discusses how we developed the many
different analog simulations. However, it is important to mention
the reasons why we did so. This monograph tells the PCA story in a
non- technical way with emphasis on the human aspects of the
engineering and flight-research effort. It thereby supplements the
extensive technical literature on PCA and makes the development of
this technology accessible to a wide audience.
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