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787-10 Dreamliner · Microsoft Flight Simulator · MSFS 2020
AAU2 changes specific to the Dreamliner
The June 2023 AAU2 release documents a revised 787-10 head-up display, including runway-edge and flight-path indications, plus a Boeing C*U fly-by-wire implementation and flap load-relief and auto-gap functions. These are Microsoft’s published software changes, scoped to that MSFS 2020 release.
MSFS 2020 · AAU2 version 1.33.8.0 · 22 June 2023
Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner
The 787 grew from Boeing's 7E7 programme and first flew in 2009. Airline service began in 2011. The family uses a composite-intensive airframe, a swept flexible wing and two large turbofans, with -8, -9 and -10 versions serving different capacity and range needs.
The 787-10 is the longest of those three variants. Its cabin size and mission figures should not be borrowed from the smaller -8. Simulator avionics and automation also depend on the represented product and update, making its developer documentation the relevant systems reference.
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Flight-Testing the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Mary McKillop interview with Mike Carriker · November 2010
Joined Boeing for the Development of the 787
Masami Tsukamoto interview · 14 January 2022
An interview with Pip Schofield
Jill McCaw · issue 58, 2018 #3 · printed pp.52–55
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Boeing developed the B-17 during the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps. It became closely associated with the European air war, but the aircraft also served in transport, maritime patrol and rescue work. The B-17G represented in the simulator catalogue is a particular production version, not a label for every Flying Fortress configuration.
Learning to Fly the Fortress
Eileen Bjorkman · July 2015 · checkout purchased in 2013
Stories of a B-17 Pilot
Dick Nelms interview · 29 June 2019
‘Bloody Hundredth’ B-17 Pilot Shares WWII Experiences
Karen Abeyasekere interviews John A. Clark · 6 May 2022
Boeing B-52G Stratofortress · Laminar Research · X-Plane 11
X-Plane 11 Desktop Manual
Boeing B-52G Stratofortress · Laminar Research · X-Plane 11
X-Plane aircraft and avionics manuals
Boeing B-52G Stratofortress
The B-52 entered US Air Force service in 1955 and became a central aircraft of the Cold War bomber force. Its large wing, paired engine nacelles and bicycle-style main landing gear give it a distinctive shape. Later upgrades changed its missions and equipment over a long operational life.
The B-52G represented in this catalogue is a particular historical version. Modern B-52H equipment, current upgrade plans and figures for other variants should not be projected onto it simply because they share the Stratofortress name.
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