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                         Boeing 717-200
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B717-200 AEROCOL (Colombian Virtual Airline) Repainted by: Augusto Ilian
ailian@colomsat.net.co 
You can get all the planes from our VA at the following URL:
http://www.cybercol.com/fs
Original model  Copyright 1998, Eric C. Johnson.
These is FREEWARE. These files are strictly for your own 
personal, non-commercial use and the redistribution, repackaging or 
reselling of these files in any form is expressly prohibited without
my written permission. 

    If you wish to commericially resell these files in any form you
may contact me at the internet address at the bottom of this note to
discuss appropriate fees for the redistribution rights.
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    While the fuselage, engines and wings are all new, some portions
of this model is copied from other author's work.

    Acknowledgements:

    Vertical Stabilizer :  Kentaro Kaneko's orginal MD82
    Wing Textures :  Brian Quayle's original DC-9-30
    Landing Lights File (dc-9.ll) : Barry Blaisdell
    Landing Gear, Horizontal Stabilizer & 
    Flight Dynamics : Eric Johnson's (Me) & Mike Vidal's 
                      original DC-9-51

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    This airplane requires Microsoft Flight Simulator for Windows 95.

    Engine:			2 X 18,500 lbst BMW/Rolls Royce BR715
    Max T/O Wieght:		114,000 lbs
    Length:			124 ft 0 in
    Wing span:  		93 ft 4 in
    Range: 			1,800 miles
    Accomodations: 		106 Passengers

    Boeing has finalized the rationalization of it's product line 
after it's purchase of McDonnell Douglas. The 717-200 was formally
known as the MD95 and it will be the only McDonnell Douglas design
that will be produced in the next century.
    Boeing kept this design because it gives them a strong position
smack in the middle of the rapidly growing Regional Jet catgory. Don't
be suprised to see Boeing announce in the next year or so a short
fuselage 75-80 passenger version (maybe the -100?) and a stretched
120-125 passenger version ( -300?) to solidify it's offering in the
this important catagory.

    The flight dynamics of this plane was taken directly from Mike
Vidal's original work on our jointly developed DC-9-51 and modified
only to reflect the dimension and weight differences between the
717-200 and DC-9-51. This model exhibits a certain amount of yaw
instability. This is intentional, the real DC-9, especially the
stretched versions, suffered from this affliction. Since Boeing/
McDonnell Douglas developed this plane as a modernized DC-9 (rather
than a short fuselage MD80/90) I felt that the real plane would
probably feel more like a DC-9 than a MD80/90. 


  Installation:

    copy b717-200.af0-8 to your /textures directory
    copy b717-200.air and b717-200.mdl to your /pilots directory


