An advanced conceptual aircraft simulator

The development of a proposed multiseat advanced aircraft man-in-the-loop simulation facility is briefly described. This facility, called the strategic avionics battle-management evaluation and research (SABER) simulation facility, is based on distributed graphics processors hosted on a central mainframe computer. The mainframe supports aircraft flight models, weapon flyout models, and simulation data storage and data collection. The graphics processors, exploiting downloaded databases and responding to crew-initiated control inputs, generate the actual display format video signals. Because of this flexibility, format design and facility development were accomplished as parallel activities