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Douglas DC-8-55F Fine Air (USA) N55FB V2.0

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By Marco Balzarotti



(original AFX by Kim Simmelink and Francesco Zoja )



Flight Simulator V5 and the *patched* BAO Flight Simulator Flight Shop are required to fly this aircraft.



If you are using Notepad, please turn "Word Wrap" on.



INSTALLATION (Fs 5.x)



The Files:



dc85fav2.Air  :   Copy this file into your FS5\PILOTS directory

dc85fav2.?AF  :   Copy these files into your FS5\TEXTURE directory

dc85fav2.Gif  :   A picture of the aircraft.

dc85fav2.Txt  :   You are reading it.



For FS6 for Windows 95 or FS98, please use the free Microsoft converter avilable for download on the internet. This aircraft has been tested in FS98 with a 3D Card.



DESCRIPTION



With a pure fleet of Douglas DC-8F 50 and 60 series aircraft, Fine Airlines Inc. started to offer a frequent network of scheduled all cargo services to numerous Latin American points out of it's Miami Headquarters in early 1992. Fitted with Burbank  Aeronautical hush kits, a proud armada of eighteen freighters provided scheduled trading links between Miami and Costa Rica, the dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama in Central America, as well as to Colombia, Peru, Venezuela and Brasil in South America. Fine Air freighters, featuring the "Big Eff" on the fin, were also regulary leased out to Latin American cargo carriers e.g. to Midas Air of Venezuela, as well as to Tampa and ATC Aeronaves Transcolombiana. Fine Air offices at all points of their scheduled services are contributing an efficent and reliable operation to the vital air freight market between South America and the US, with further cargo stations at Houston, New York-JFK, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver and Seattle.The N55FB is painted as seen  in a rare first westbound transatlantic departure to Miami from the European continent at Ostend (Belgium) in May 1992. The unusual charter routing resulted from a temporary contract with Tampa Colombia Aerolineas to carry out their weekly cargo service from Miami to destinations in the UK and Belgium. The N55FB is C/N 45678 and was the first freighter choosen by Japan Air Lines to perform their international cargo operations in a mixed cargo/passenger configuration in March 1965. As JA8014 "Asama", the revolutionary Douglas combi carried a maximum of 26 tons on nine cargo pallets on the forward upper deck, together with 54 passengers being seated in the aft cabin on trans pacific routes from Tokyo to San Francisco. In 1982 the aircraft found it's home in the Central American reagion being operated and leased by several local cargo carriers until entering service with Agro Air International at Miami in 1985 and joining Fine Airlines Inc. in 1992.

Fine Air has recently purchased from LTU (Germany) and L1011 Tristar.



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS



My thanks go to Kim Simmelink and Francesco Zoja who designed the original aircraft.





LIMITATIONS



This aircraft model is made available for the private use of Microsoft

Flight Simulator enthusiasts.  The original, unaltered archive file may 

be freely distributed and uploaded to BBS and FTP sites.  Under no 

circumstances may this model be packaged, bundled or otherwise sold for 

profit.

This file MUST NOT be uploaded to CompuServe's  Flight Sim Forum.



Copyright 1998 by John Kelley, All Rights Reserved.

SAVCO Bolivia paint copyright 1998 Marco Balzarotti email Boeing@Iol.It



Are you interested in other Rare, Unusual and defunct airlines for Microsoft Flight Simulator? please pay a visit to :



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