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National Museum of the USAF April 2019

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    National Museum of the United States Air Force,
Dayton, Ohio,   04/13/2019

Convair NC-131H Total In-Flight Simulator (TIFS)  N793VS
From a Convair NC131H Samaritan c/n 340-245  53-7793 

An important in-flight simulator primarily used to study how an
 aircraft would handle before building an expensive, full-scale
 prototype.   It was especially useful for studying how large 
aircraft would handle during takeoff and landing. Vertical fins
(see separate photo)  on the wings generated side forces to 
simulate crosswinds 

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    National Museum of the United States Air Force,
Dayton, Ohio,   04/13/2019

Convair NC-131H Total In-Flight Simulator (TIFS)  N793VS
From a Convair NC131H Samaritan c/n 340-245  53-7793 

The wing-mounted fins  on the wings generated side forces to 
simulate crosswinds    (See separate photo for nose & cockpits.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
    National Museum of the United States Air Force,
Dayton, Ohio,   04/13/2019

Hawker Siddeley XV-6A Kestrel c/n Not found XS688/64-18262

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