And, for what it's worth, (and strangely enough),
although the local airport is now called the
"Greater Binghamton Airport", the actual _field_,
as in "airfield", is still called "Edwin A. Link Field".
Ken
John,
I had a play around with the early GAT-1
simulator but never got to try out the GAT-2 and subsequent models.. <sigh>
For their day they were extremely advanced.
News dated 1988:
"TORONTO, July 8 The Singer Commpany agreed
today to sell its Link flight simulation and
training systems division to CAE Industries of Canada for $550 million.
The sale is part of the breakup of Singer. The
Stamford, Conn., military contractor was
acquired in January by the Florida financier
Paul Bilzerian, who has since said that all of
Singer's divisions are up for sale.
Also today, Singer agreed to sell its education division for $20 million.
On Tuesday, Singer said it would sell its power
tools and floor-care equipment division to Ryobi
Ltd. of Japan for about $325 million.
CAE, a Toronto-based manufacturer of commercial
flight simulators and other industrial products,
said it had reached a definitive agreement with
Singer to buy the Link division. It said it
would finance the cost of the acquisition
internally and through bank borrowings.
Singer's Link division, based in Binghamton,
N.Y., employs 7,500 and posted revenues of $550 million in 1987.
Analysts said the purchase would more than
double CAE's size and would create a leading producer of flight simulators.
''I think it will be the world's leader in
commercial and military flight simulation,''
said Mark Lawrence, a technology analyst for
Prudential-Bache Securities Canada Ltd.
Separately, Integrated Resources Inc. announced
today that it would purchase Singer's education
division for $20 million. The division, known as
Career Systems Development, is an operator of vocational training centers.
The sales of these divisions will help Mr.
Bilzerian pay off debt he accumulated during his
$1.06 billion takeover of Singer, which came
after a long battle with management."
Dave Crozier
Software Development Manager
Flexipol Packaging Ltd.
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-----Original Message-----
From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of John Weller
Sent: 19 February 2018 10:30
To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: RE: [NF] RE: Timers in VFP
Hi Ken,
Thanks for that. I was a navigator in the RAF
for many years and was seconded to the UK arm of
Singer Link between 1978 and 1982 to work on the
Tornado simulator project. The Binghamton
office was doing some work for the project hence
my visit. I often wondered what happened to them after I left :-)
Regards
John
John Weller
01380 723235
07976 393631
>
> John,
>
> For some reason this message didn't get delivered to my work email. I
> was just combing through the list at home and saw it today.
>
> Singer Link is gone. CAE Corp bought it, and Hughes Aircraft bought
> CAE
and
> relocated most of the simulator stuff to Arlington, TX. The federal
> government had a couple of classifed projects going at the Binghamton
plant
> and insisted they stay there. Those are now owned by
> L3 and are still located at the industrial park in Kirkwood. Most of
> the
Singer-
> Link building has been taken over and converted to a multi-tenant space.
>
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