Thu, Feb 20, 2003
The Mid Atlantic Air Museum's prize-winning B-25J
Mitchell, Briefing Time, has been faithfully replicated as
an add-on package for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 by
award-winning designers Bill Rambow, Jan Visser, Fred Banting, and
Rob Young.
Together, these talented folks comprise "MAAM-SIM," an official
arm of the Mid Atlantic Air Museum helping raise money for the
museum's projects with the finest Microsoft Flight Simulator™
add-ons available anywhere -- featuring MAAM's own aircraft.
The group's previous rendition of the Museum's R4D Gooney
Bird has been a tremendous hit, accruing numerous awards and
raising over $100,000 since its release. The funds have gone toward
a new engine for the Museum's Martin 404 and of course, getting the
R4D back to flying status.
Although not officially released yet, MAAM-SIM's newest project,
a magnificent rendering of MAAM's B-25 Mitchell bomber,
Briefing Time, has already taken off with orders pouring
in via the Museum's online store since it was made available there
on February 18.
The aircraft's exterior and interior feature "extreme
photo-realistic" textures derived from thousands of digital
photographs. The stereo sounds of the mighty Wright Double-Cyclones
were recorded in the real plane, and 'BT's flight performance has
been painstakingly reproduced in the simulation's flight model so
you can fly her "to the numbers," and MAAM-SIM even provides
those... as it does the checklists; and the reference/specification
pages are extremely detailed, covering every phase of flight in
both normal and emergency operations.
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