Wilbur's Flight School
I (Clovice Lewis) created Wilbur’s Flight School© in 1990 as an interactive guide to aviation. I realized that the then, newly introduced HyperCard by Apple Computer, Incorporated could be used to produce an interactive encyclopedia. A multimedia format can breathe life into the many pages of boring technical information pilots are required to know. I was especially keen to produce Wilbur’s Flight School because I go my Private Pilot license in 1987 and would have appreciated the product as a study guide myself.
At that time AzureSoft®, a company which created its own aviation software and published a catalog called the Flight Computing Catalog®, was selling sophisticated flight simulators and other avionics for the general aviation community. t took only six months for me to create the world’s first truly interactive multimedia guide for aviation, which AzureSoft marketed as Wilbur’s Flight School©. Although it was originally created for Macintosh computers (in black and white), the November 1991 issue of Plane & Pilot magazine called it “…one of the best programs on the market…highly interactive and features excellent graphics and audio.”
Wilbur’s Flight School was a very simple, yet powerful example of effective multimedia design coupled with intelligent “hypertext” links to text. This combination created a rich environment for the study of virtually any subject.
At that time AzureSoft®, a company which created its own aviation software and published a catalog called the Flight Computing Catalog®, was selling sophisticated flight simulators and other avionics for the general aviation community. t took only six months for me to create the world’s first truly interactive multimedia guide for aviation, which AzureSoft marketed as Wilbur’s Flight School©. Although it was originally created for Macintosh computers (in black and white), the November 1991 issue of Plane & Pilot magazine called it “…one of the best programs on the market…highly interactive and features excellent graphics and audio.”
Wilbur’s Flight School was a very simple, yet powerful example of effective multimedia design coupled with intelligent “hypertext” links to text. This combination created a rich environment for the study of virtually any subject.
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