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American Overseas Airlines Stratocruiser for FS2000
by Dave McQueen/Rui Cristina
April 26, 2001
Not for commercial sale. Not affiliated with or endorsed by American Airlines
This is a new B377 simulation updated from our basic model released in April, 2000. Highlights include night lighting and textured propellers. It also has transparent cockpit windows. Thanks very much to Rob Bennis of the Netherlands for his "tutorial" assistance that provided me the incentive to tackle this complicated transparent window project-- 19 windows in 3 rows. Whew! Enjoy!
Important: This is Freeware! It may not be used commercially in any way. This simulation is made for the sole purpose of entertainment for fellow flight simmers and us. It may NOT be sold or distributed on any disk or CD, regardless of whether the disk or CD is allegedly "non-profit". We reserve ALL rights to these programs, except where mentioned below. It may be uploaded to the internet for non-commercial purposes, or any on-line service or BBS that does not charge for individual downloads or profit from this simulation, providing that the aircraft or cockpits are not changed in any way.
We acknowledge that American Airlines, Inc. (including its subsidiaries and affiliates) is the sole and exclusive owner of the trademarks, logos, designs, and trade dress constituting the Livery of American Airlines, American Eagle, TWA, TWE, BEX, Air Cal, and Reno Air.
We affirm that We have not made, nor will we make in the future, any direct or indirect commercial use of these Liveries (or any other American Airlines intellectual property) in creating or distributing these Liveries for flight simulator programs or otherwise.
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This aircraft simulation is the latest upgrade to the Stratocruiser series that Dave McQueen has been making since 1996. It is intended for use with Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2000. It has full moving parts This aircraft simulation took many hundreds of hours of time at the keyboard to coordinate the present state of the project. This sim was made with Abacus' AF99 Aircraft Factory program and Konstantin Kukushkins' Aircraft Animator program. Activating the "O" key will turn on the strobe lights on the wing and fuselage.
A custom made panel with a rear cabin view by Stephan Grille and modified for use with FS2000 by Dave McQueen is available from Dave & Rui's website at:
http://flightsimmers.net/airport/airliners/
Instructions as to how to install the panel in your Stratocruiser folder are contained there as well, courtesy of Tom Gibson.
You can also find there a set of Stratocruiser sounds that was included with Claudio Pedrazzini sounds. Thanks Claudio!!
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e-mail: dmcqueen@ccnet.com (Note: technical advice and changes are not possible. I simply do not have enough time to provide help. If it does not work on your system then I am truly sorry.)
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TO INSTALL: Use a decompression program like Winzip to unzip the downloaded file to a
temporary directory; then use Windows 95 Explorer to copy the AOA377 folder to inside the aircraft folder of Flight Sim 2000. No conversion of the aircraft is needed!!!!
Power plant: Four Pratt and Whitney R-4360 Double Wasp
radial engines of 3500 h.p.
Cruising speed: 340 m.p.h (295 knots)
NOTE: the FS51 airspeed indicator is calibrated in KNOTS!
Range: 4200 miles (max payload)
Dimensions: Span, 141 ft 3 in; Length, 110 ft 4 in; Height,38 ft 3 in
It is inconceivable that anything in these files could cause problems with your computer, however: there is absolutely NO warranty or guarantee of any kind, expressed or implied, for any problems arising from the use of these files. This includes, but is not limited to, any hardware and/or software problems. All use of these programs and their related files is at the users own risk.
