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Flight Simulator Features Classic Aircraft
Source: NBN/CP RadioWire
Nov 13, 2003, 12:35

The invention of powered flight ranks among the most significant moments in human history.  To commemorate the centennial, Microsoft Flight Simulator�s Aviation Series details a different era of flight each week.  Joining us is world-renown aerobatic pilot, Patty Wagstaff, depicting the famous airplane that took Amelia Earhart across the Atlantic - the Model 5B Vega. 

Built in 1927, the Model 5B Vega was a large, single-engine, single-wing plane with a roomy cabin.  It was designed in the 1920�s, a time when aviation still had mystique, it was a time when aviators were pioneers, exploring a new world.  World-renown aerobatic pilot, Patty Wagstaff, discusses the importance of the Vega and its claim to fame:

�I think that the Vega is particularly significant because of Amelia Earhart�s involvement with it and she really was the woman of that era, the most famous female aviator in history and she really sort of pushed female pilots into aviation history.�

Interested in taking to the skies in the famed Lockheed Vega, but don�t have your pilot�s license?  Wagstaff says Microsoft flight simulator 2004: A Century of Flight is the next best thing.

�As with all the planes in Microsoft Flight Sim, the Vega is extremely realistic.�