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FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2004
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A CENTURY OF FLIGHT
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It’s been a full century since the Wright Flyer’s rst
powered ight. At rst, the skies were empty and the airspace unrestricted.
It was an age of slow speeds, spruce-and-fabric wings, and air elds that
were also corn elds. In the following decades, aviation lled the skies with
beautiful aircraft and awesome adventure, while technology allowed pilots
to travel through all kinds of weather. Within a few decades of the birth of
powered ight, pilots and passengers were soaring across continents, racing
over oceans, and jetting around the world in less than a day. It was a century
when the airplane brought distant lands closer and changed people’s sense
of space and time—a century when the world learned to y.
Experience
the Dream
The centennial of powered ight has
enjoyed a healthy share of media
coverage. But it’s one thing to learn
about history, and quite another to
experience it. And that is what
Flight
Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight
is
all about—allowing you to experience
the dream of ight rsthand.
By piloting the Wright Flyer on the windswept dunes at Kitty Hawk,
navigating the Ryan NYP “Spirit of St. Louis” across the dark North Atlantic,
and bringing in a sophisticated Boeing 747–400 for a smooth landing in
Tokyo, you can experience the range of technology that de ned the rst
hundred years of powered ight. You’ll slip into the cockpits of some of
the century’s greatest aircraft and pilot them on their historic ights. And
once you take ight, you’ll have a greater appreciation for what those early
aviators may have felt as they followed the train tracks, squinted into the
wind, pushed in the throttle, and roared aloft.
A Century of Flight
“The best way to understand pilots—even
pilots who lived 75 years ago—is simply
to y with them,” writes Flying magazine
columnist and West Coast editor Lane
Wallace in her introduction to A Century
of Flight. In nine evocative stories,
Wallace recounts her experiences with
the historic aircraft featured in Flight
Simulator
and re ects on their legacies.
Savoring the rare opportunity to sit in Amelia Earhart’s Vega, Wallace writes,
“‘This is where she sat,’ I whisper wonderingly to myself, well aware of
how few people since then have ever been allowed to sit in the silence of
this carefully preserved cathedral …”
Posters celebrated the Vickers Vimy’s
nonstop transatlantic crossing.
A Century of Flight
Developed as a World War I bomber, the Vickers
Vimy was the nest long-range aircraft of its day. In 1919
and 1920, the Vimy claimed three incredible ying records.
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