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Fordlandia Scenery - Ready for Download

GarryJSmith

GarryJSmith

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Hi Good People,

The Ford Project Team is pleased to advise that the Fordlandia Scenery project is now ready for download from the Ford Tri-Motor Project site.

Bit of background: Fordlandia is a now-abandoned, prefabricated industrial town established in the Amazon Rainforest in 1928 by American industrialist Henry Ford to secure a source of cultivated rubber for the automobile manufacturing operations of the Ford Motor Company in the United States.

The scenery is a historical FS2004 rendition of the town and factory facilities circa 1930's. Has a runway and airport plus a sea runway and some additional fictional extras to enrich the scenery. Created for your flight sim enjoyment by the Ford Project Team. This FREE scenery and many more can be found at: http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/scenery.htm Plus buckets of historical liveries available for several vintage aircraft at the Ford Project Site.

For those that want quickly get to the download: http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/fordlandia.htm

Regards from Garry and Edward - the Ford Project Team.
 
Thanks Andy,

There are over 50 new models created for this scenery - and a couple of great train models from the ez-trains pack. Many hundreds of hours went into this scenery - but Edwards and I thought it was very relevant to the overall concepts of the Ford Tri-Motor project and therefore we committed to creating it and making it available to the simming community.

We have put a lot of effort into ensuring, despite a very large volume of new and complex models, that we would minimise the FPS impact as much as possible and we were happy that we got so much in with little impact to the end users.

Regards and thanks again - hope you and many others enjoy the results.
 
Wow! Thanks Garry and team!

Forlandia was certainly a poorly thought out adventure by Henry Ford. As I recall from my reading many years ago, Ford wanted to establish a rubber tree plantation and thought that the Amazon jungle was the place to do it. Unfortunately, the rubber tree was not adaptable to the poor and damp soil of the area and the project just gradually died out after the investment of a small fortune. I guess you could draw a parallel between Fordlandia and the later Ford Edsel. Wish I had the money lost on those two projects.

I've been in rubber tree country in SE Asia a few times and they have always been growing in well drained soil.

At any rate, history aside, I can't think of a better place to fly an old Ford Tri-Motor about. Perhaps I'll go search for the Lost City of "Z" and British adventurer and explorer, Percy Fawcett, who remains lost in his search for "Z" to this day.
 
Good stuff Mate,

Glad your getting some enjoyment out of Fordlandia - Poor Henry Ford blew 20 million (1928/30 dollars) on the Fordlandia venture - suffered worker rebellions, rubber tree failures and many other unplanned failures - mostly from lack of planning or understanding of the rubber industry. Big leap into the dark that failed.

Hopefully the Fordlandia project presents the brighter side of this venture before it all went wrong - good piece of history now in FS2004.

Regards
 
Fun in Fordlandia

I've been enjoying the new scenery in Brazil and it also gave me a chance to get the Ford Fliver out of the hanger for a few hours of wind-in-the-hair flying.
 
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