Ed Link was one of the great twentieth century inventors. He came to national renown after his invention of the flight simulator became a mainstay of World War II, and went from near rags to considerable riches. He then moved into the world of oceanography building some of the world's most sophisticated deep ocean submersibles, including the one that years later discovered the crew cabin of the sunken Challenger spacecraft, on the ocean bottom. He invented and personally tested the first deep ocean lock out chamber, now in common use throughout the world.

He discovered a sunken city in Jamaica, and contributed a great deal to ocean archaeology.

All this from a man who dropped out of high school and made a living as a daredevil pilot in the early 1920's.

This excellent book, written by a colleague of Ed and Marion Link, tells the tale of this inventive American from his barnstorming pilot days as a pilot to his invention of the flight simulator from an attic of player piano parts and a working knowledge of air pneumatics discovered in his father's out of business player piano factory, in the 1920's.

This is a great tale of success and achievement by an inventor who contributed a great deal to technology on both land and sea. I had the good fortune to meet Mr. Link when he was in his seventies, and I was in my twenties, and I was pleased to see this book, telling his life's story, published and bringing to light many never before known details.

- Mike Weiner