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 Flight simulator Navy recruiting station

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Date posted: 13/07/2004

July 14, Woodcreek Shopping Center, Conroe, Houston, USA. There will be a rather large lorry in the car park. A lorry whose trailer holds over a dozen would-be fighter pilots.

This is one of the US Navy's three virtual reality rides that simulate a flight lifting off froman aircraft carrier, flying in formation with a group of jets, then touching down on the deck of an aircraft carrier again - all in immersive realism.

Holding twelve to fifteen people, the tool is designed to recruit pilots to the Navy, and generally is capable of producing four eager new recruits a day - over and beyond what a recruiting station is capable of alone.

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