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United States Air Force Boeing C97G Stratocfreighter for FS2000
with transparent cockpit windows and all new high detail textures.
A joint effort by Dave McQueen and Rui Cristina
October 14, 2000
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Hello there, and thank you for downloading this great airliner, a Boeing C97G freighter.
- A 12 sided fuselage, moving parts, and that extra care for a real nice visual model,available now
for use with FS2K. This aircraft will not work in FS98 and no further FS98 versions are possible.
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This aircraft simulation is the latest in a series of civilian/military Boeing double decker transports 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.
Sounds by Claudio Pedrazzini--actual C97 sounds and a custom made panel 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 C97 folder are contained there as well, courtesy of Tom Gibson' Classic Airliners web site.
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Changes from previous FS98 versions include the following:
1) More detailed nose landing gear assembly with texture for the front nosewheel door
2) Textured flaps
3) Textured ailerons
4) Re-constructed tires with 16 sides to simulate a circular effect.
5) Changed the motion sequence for the animated landing gear to a more realistic rate of change.
6) Revised engine intake texture
7) Main/nose gear position with respect to the center of gravity adjusted so that the tires do not sink into the runway.
8) Bleed through from propellers with other parts of the airplane have been eliminated courtesy of Konstantin Kukushkin Aircraft Animator version 1.2 available from Abacus.
9) 512X512 pixel extended BMP textures, all new with the greatest detail possible.
10) Rui Cristina's excellent artwork.
11) Other changes: smoothed rear under fuselage; fixed tears in the engine construction; rebuilt the outer wing; rebuilt the landing gear; revised center of gravity values for landing gear wheel placement; repaired errors in the front nose area; revised the position of the main gear doors.
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We hope you enjoy the C97. There will be other versions coming out as time permits-- Northwest, United, Pan Am light blue Globe, a KC97L with jets, and more textures for other C97G variants.
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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 Pan American Strato-Clipper folder to inside the aircraft folder of Flight Sim 2000. No conversion of the aircraft is needed!!!!
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C97 performance details:
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.
LICENSE
These downloads are freeware and are written for the sole purpose of entertainment for fellow flight simmers and us. It may NOT be sold or distributed on disk or CD, regardless of whether the disk or CD is allegedly "non-profit". We reserve ALL rights to these programs, except where mentioned in the descriptions, but give permission to have it uploaded to the internet, any on-line service or any BBS that does not charge for individual downloads, providing that the aircraft or cockpits are not changed in any way. Prior written permission from both of us must be obtained before including this simulation in any "freeware" uploaded flight sim package to the Internet.
