Oubaas, that VC10 tale had me chortling!
Hve sims always been a part of trainng? Far longer than any of the examles above, that's for sure.
https://www.historyofsimulation.com/...n-world-war-1/
I have tried and faied to obtain a pic of the helicopter sim built by Igor Sikorsky probably in the late '30s which was a rig with horizontally mounted propellors electrically driven mounted fore and aft and laterally on a framework for roll control. It was suspended on a system of levers and the pilot's weight was balanced out by judcious application of weights and conventional cyclic and collective controls varied power to the very low thrust props.
It 'flew' in all axes and iirc could move a couple of metres fwd, aft, sideways and up/down in quite realistic fashion. I flew a replica at Helifest, Redhill in the late '80s and it was quite sensitive but easy and conventional to 'fly' if a little slow in response due simply to low thrust overcoming inertia.