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Vista Liners Boeing 727-100/200 FREEWARE

The Boeing 727, sometimes called the "Whisperjet" (as a result of the rear-mounted turbofan jet engines, passengers seated forward in first class could actually hear eachother whispering, which was quite uniqe in a time that hearing someone whispering aboard a jet plane was not possible due to loud engine noise), is a classic mid-size narrow-body trijet. Vista Liners created this Boeing 727 (not SGA or FFX, those are older versions for FS2002). The about page of Vista Liners doesn't say much about them, at least not about their aircraft models, maybe about their way of looking at things......however, fact is that Vista Liners does develop high quality aircraft models. Their Boeing 727 is no exception, the model is beautifully designed and represents its realword counterpart well. The flight dynamics are well balanced and all the usual animations are present. Special animations are: Opening cockpit windows (tail hook command) and opening airstairs (wing fold command) under the tail. The 727-200 version is a final model, while the 727-100 is still in beta version. There are many liveries available for the 727-200 version (see below). For anyone who is thinking that the thrust reversers are not modelled: The engines of most Boeing 727's are equipped with thrust reversers that do not extend any part or flap, so its not a model flaw, its perfectly normal (the Super 27 version does have two md-80 engines, which are equiped with different thrust reversers, ones that are visible). NOTE: For the smoke effect, you'll need the effect file "SMOKE_JT8D.fx". Click here to download it if you don't have it allready. Place it in the effects folder e.g.: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Effects\ The smoke effect does not work in FSX (It actually will, but the smoke will not appear at the right location behind the aircraft).

Panel [?] : No Compatibility [?] : FS2004 & FSX Virtual Cockpit [?] : No Wingflex [?] : Yes, lift/gear compression based Wingview [?] : Yes Landing gear behaviour [?] : Realistic Sound [?] : No Rudder effectiveness [?] : Insufficient Download locations : WSPilots 727-200 TNT livery (including sound) WSPilots 727-200 FedEx livery (including sound) AVSIM Library (search for "cha7272.zip" , this repaint of Champion Air contains the model files) Flightsim File Search (search for the file "b72720vl.zip") Vista Liners website Boeing 727-100 basepack (BETA VERSION) Liveries : AVSIM Library (search for "vistaliners 727" in Flight Simulator 2004 - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications)