You have to go back to Luis de Florez and the establishment of The Special
Devices Desk in the Engineering Division
in the Navy in 1941.
De Flores and  .... were flying
over and de Flores connection with
IAS and he said "I'll go see IAS as to whether we
can rent it." And he was able to rent the
Guggenheim mansion for the Navy and they
moved up there from Washington in 1946
>Getting in this blue box with the
cover shut was like if you're subject to
claustrophobia you would have it.  Now
these these Link trainers we're really
primitive as far as being able to
simulate actual fight so they were kinda
jerky and my reaction was that it doesn't fly like the plane you know it just
didn't smoothly react and you had to get used
to it.
>The Army for some reason got identified
with this place and said "what are they doing
up there?" Colonel Alexander was a member
of the first group of three Army
officers that joined the Center in
1950.
>The Air Force was moving out of Orlando at that time.  It was Orlando Air Force Base and they were going
to California so there was an open
facility down here in Florida and they thought
that they can make the best of both
worlds thing you guys need a room we got
plenty of room in sunny Florida so you
move down here so we did.
>The old dumpy buildings struck me on the Old Navy base they were hot in the summer
cold in the winter
the windows you know sometimes didn't go
up you got somebody so desk that had
junk spilled in it. and I mean everybody
everybody had kind of the same thing it
didn't matter what grade you're were.
>434 was only a two-lane highway now it's like six lanes.  
>I remember we came out
here when there was nothing but woods
and one little two-lane road it came off
Alafaya Trail.  
>This building was designed
for the Navy as a wave, that's what it
looks like a sine wave.  The windows on the
first floor on the Contracts side are
slanted because they resemble the
slanted windows on a carrier.  
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