Fs2002 Alaska Airlines - Seahawk 1 Boeing 727-2Q8/Adv
Alaska Airlines is, of course, an airline based in Alaska, Usa. It surged in 1944 after many merges of regional airlines. It became the largest charter operator in the world. Using surplus military aircraft, it flew everywhere, carrying food in the Berlin Airlift and refugees to
the settlement of Israel. It buyed 727 in the mid-60's, and were the company signature aircraft for 25 years.
The N297AS, a Boeing 727-2Q8/Adv, was the PSA/N791L before to be adquired by Alaska Airlines, and was sold to American Trans Air fleet as N776AT. It was retired the 8/28/2001.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Alaska flew the N297AS on charter flights for the Seattle NFL Team Seahawks, with a specially designed paint.
I found another two "Seahawk 1", both in Fs98 format, without moving parts. So I searched for some original pictures, and made this repaint. There are many good planes in FS98 and even in FS95, that have been not modeled again in FS2002 or FS2004 format. Loosely, I can name a CN-235, a Stirling, an Avro York, a Beech V35 Bonanza, a Cessna 337 and many others.
My previous repaints are:
Ju52mlka: Ju-52 owned by Milka chocolats company, in flying state
b727ah1: Green and yellow Braniff's 727
b727ah2: 727 flow by Viasa when was bought by Iberia
b727ah3: Braniff 727 painted by Alexander Calder
b727ah4: One of the first 727 flow by Kulula.com
md11ah5: MD-11F from Eva Air Cargo
b190ah6: Beech 1900D from Us Air Express
b190ah7: Beech 1900D from the canarian island's Air Atlantic
b737ah8: American Airlines Astrojet, a 2001 plane painted like the 60´s
l1011ah9: Two L1011 leased by Iberia
tornah10: Tornado in 2001 Tiger Meet painting
Warranty:
I love the warranty writen by Andrew W. Hall:
"None. Zip. Nada. Use at your own risk. I dont think
this will harm your computer in any way, but if it does, I
dont even want to hear about it."
A last remark: Why don't become a repainter? There are a lot of planes with special markings. I'm tired either the usual F-16 low-vis scheme, or the usual 757 in Delta markings. Why don't a Tornado Tiger Meet or a serie of Easy Jet's 737s? The plane modelers like Kevin Trinkle are very important, but they can't make all the painting schemes by themselves. So why don't help them?
Installation:
Just unzip b727ah11.zip in your "Aircraft" folder of FS2002, install your desired panel and that's all. If you don't know how to install a panel, rename panel.cfg like anything else, and rename panel2.cfg as panel.cfg
If you like this, or any observation, send me a mail to dracosist@cantv.net
