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Florida's Opinicus Corp. Tries to Interest Military in Its Simulator.(Originated from St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 1996 by Trigaux, Robert
CLEARWATER, Fla.--Mar. 28--Just off U.S. 19, Navy pilot Capt. Tom Freeland pulled his car past a strip shopping center, entered a fourth-floor office suite and sat down. Then, he flew a jet plane at Mach 1.5 and landed a helicopter on a bridge.
Not your typical Wednesday morning along Clearwater's busy commuting corridor.
Freeland was in town to try out a small, flexibly designed simulator in the offices of Opinicus Corp., a young engineering company. The prototype simulator can not only mimic the flight of a wide range of aircraft but also can be configured within minutes to simulate a moving military tank or other ground vehicle.
Opinicus this week is debuting its device, called RREVS (reconfigurable research engineering vehicle simulator), to...
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