On a foggy morning in February 1929, 25-year-old Edwin Link took off from a rural airport in upstate New York. What Link demonstrated that day would soon change the course of aviation history and lead him to a lifetime of invention and discovery. Hundreds of personal photographs, rare archival footage, and a 1979 interview with the inventor himself tell the story of this American original, a shy young man who became one of the 20th century's greatest inventors and revolutionized aviation by introducing the concept of on-the-ground pilot training: the first flight simulator.