I think we all know about the whole "proflightsim" being a very expensive knock off of a free-ware sim...anyways this "sim" caught my attention. It seems to have the same very annoying advertising strategy and even the website reminds me of the whole 'proflight' crap.
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.