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DEFENCE & SECURITY
The legacy of the three founding fathers now all under one roof
Edwin Link,
founder
The Link
Trainer
Link Aviation
"The Luftwaffe met its Waterloo on all the training fields
of the free world where there was a battery of Link
Trainers" - Air Marshall Robert Leckie, Wartime RAF
Chief of Staff, WWII
1929
Edwin Link founds
Link Aviation
1939
Luther Simjian founds
Reflectone Corporation
1947
Ken Patrick founds
САЕ
1988
CAE buys Link Military
Simulation Corporation to
become CAE-Link
Luther Simjian,
founder
Reflectone Corp.
Simjian's Mirror Range
Estimator Trainer used
in WWII
Luther held 200+ patents,
receiving his last at age 92
"The most important invention
for me was the Range Estimation
Trainer. This was the invention
that put Reflectone on the map."
- Luther Simjian
Ken Patrick assembled what he called
"a war-trained team that was
extremely innovative and very
technology-intensive."
1995
Link purchased by Hughes
Electronics Corporation
2000
L-3 Communications buys and
names L-3 Link Simulation & Training
2001
CAE purchased Reflectone
to establish CAE USA Inc.
2021
CAE acquires L3Harris Technologies'
Military Training to include Link, Doss
Aviation and AMI
Ken Patrick,
founder
CAE
CAE's first simulator contract was from the
RCAF for a CF 100 flight simulator
Quarter millennium of combined experience and industry firsts!
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