The Six Million Dollar (da da da -- etc) man was wired into a plane in one of his adventures so he could actually feel the planes sensors.
There is a cracking description of how he felt flying in one the books. He didn't want to come back to just being human again.
So far ahead of it's time -- predates crappy old suit based VR by decades.
(For cheapskates like me -- you can achieve sort of the same effect by strapping yourself really tight into something without engines... hee hee)