Tales of Burtek Past

Mike Gleason, now an engineer with FlightSafety Simulation, has set up a website with photos, phone lists, and newsletters from Burtek, the flight simulation company founded in the '40s by the merger of Technical Training Inc. and Burton-Rogers, then purchased in the late '70s by the French defense conglomerate Thomson-CSF, forerunner of Thales. Most of Mike's material is from the late '80s and early '90s.

This might be my favorite photo: Nita Winters from accounting dressed as a clown and wearing the same colors as the "clown-colored" cubicle partitions in the engineering area.

Mike would like more old Burtek stuff to post -- you can reach him at gleason.ok@cox.net