How to open .air files?

You need an .air file editor. Best of the lot, imo, is AirWrench - 20 US dollars IIRC. There are others and some are free, but I don't remember their names.
 
well i meant the AIR installer files,which are required to fly models like 1% Lancaster arent they?
 
Not that I know of? Follow the instructions included with the 1% Lancaster download and that's all I've ever had to do - you are talking about the AvHistory Lancasters for CFS3, aren't you?
 
well i followed step by step all instructions(download weapons,shared ,sounds, ...) for AvHistory lancaster and b-17 but dodnt execute the air installer, and i cant fly them
 
I can't speak for the Lancaster just yet, but I just downloaded the B-17G-80 002 Chow Hound Lighted, AvH HG Shared files and all five of the Effects and Weapons files plus the BDP Nuker from AvH.

After installing all the effects and weapons to a fresh, unmodified CFS3.1a install, I then ran the BDP Nuker as instructed. No problems.

I then installed the B-17 and the Shared files and ran CFS3. The B-17 showed up in the USA aircraft list immediately. Selecting the B-17 for Free Flight, it exploded and burned in front of the hangar. This is not a real problem, just add the AirbaseFix to your install - the B-17 is quite big and the fix increases the distance the aircraft spawns from the hangar.

Selecting Quick Combat, the aircraft loaded and flew as it should - not very agile or fast and somewhat slow to get off the ground. Rather like reports of the real thing! If it helps, the instructions on the web page for the WepPak_041708 are the ones I followed.

AvH does not have the best documented downloads, but these certainly seem to work.

Edit: the Lancaster installs properly too.

HTH :wavey:
 
AIR Installer????

I got puzzled by mention of AIR installer files, so went to the oracle to enquire - well, Google actually. Have you been downloading stuff from Adobe, like Adobe AIR perchance? No, I don't know what it's for...

File associations might reflect that - .air files now being associated with the aforementioned Adobe product - because I don't remember any talk of AIR installer files before, and all the real experts have been around here for some years. CFS3 .air files are the flight models, not installer files.

The only utility for installing downloads might be WinZip, but even that's not strictly needed, as Windows since XP onwards can handle .zip files.
 
Bloatware while you wait

Poking around in the innards looking for backups, I stumbled across the answer to this conundrum - Adobe AIR is now part of the Acrobat package and the latest Acrobat Reader won't run without it.

Dash it all Adobe, we simmers were here first! :isadizzy:
 
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