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MicroProse showcases B-17 Flying Fortress in new MSFS preview video

with optional modern avionics available for those who prefer additional navigation aids
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YEEESSS!!!
I know some of y'all will poo-poo this, but I love the idea of flying vintage types in a modern airspace just like what would happen out in the real world.
 
Very nice, but as with the old A2A Fortress, the shape of the raised section near the radio operator's hatch seems a bit suspect to me. Over the years, I've examined Duxford's " Mary Alice" and it's a very subtle thing, but I'm sure I'm right.
 
Paul K said:
Very nice, but as with the old A2A Fortress, the shape of the raised section near the radio operator's hatch seems a bit suspect to me. Over the years, I've examined Duxford's " Mary Alice" and it's a very subtle thing, but I'm sure I'm right.
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The fortress was manufactured by three different manufacturers. Each had subtle differences. Not all were identical.

Research sez the original Mary Alice was manufactured by Boeing, and scraped at the end of the war, the aircraft on display in England is a replica. Manufacturers unknown.
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As for the B-17 TME Game goes, Microprose's efforts at Redux has seriously F.U., the game playability.
 
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Duxford's static B-17 is 44-83735, built by Douglas in 1945, was in the colours of Mary Alice, but has since been stripped down and restored in a new paint scheme. Because she is now bereft of nose art, she tends to still get called Mary Alice.


The other B-17 in the UK, the airworthy 44-85784 'Sally B', displays the same fuselage profile - she was built by Lockheed-Vega in Burbank, California.
 
Tom Clayton said:
know some of y'all will poo-poo this, but I love the idea of flying vintage types in a modern airspace
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Did you mean to post this on the official MSFS forum? :) This is probably the least likely forum on the Internet to crap on someone for wanting to fly warbirds in MSFS.

Looking forward to this. All of the buzz I’ve heard about the design process on this is really promising. Which is good, because Flying Iron put theirs on the back burner for now.
 
The rumor from MP is once this plane is working in MSFS, they're taking that model and it's workings and planting it in the other B-17 sims, The Bloody 100th, Redux and VR.
 
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