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ComputerWorld: Linux Takes Flight on Northwest Simulators

Thanks to Skip
Collins
for this link.

“OS used in $34M pilot training systems.”

“Northwest Airlines Inc. is spending about $34 million to
convert its 23 flight simulators from various older platforms such
as VAX to Pentium II-based systems running Linux, said staff
engineer Bob Aguglia in Eagan, Minn. The five-year project with
consultant Opinicus Corp. in Clearwater, Fla., began last
November.”

“Opinicus has ported the Fortran code of one of the flight
simulation applications to Linux.”

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