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- Do you remember the smoke and thunder of the first generation USAF
- aircraft? Sentimental Wings takes a look at the aircraft which
- helped set the pace of the future during the period of the Cold
- War up to the final days of the Kremlin.
-
- This exciting Microsoft Windows compatible disc contains a text and
- image viewer which brings these forgotten birds back to life. You
- get dramatic, full color, 24-bit digital images.
-
- Each aircraft is described along with performance data and hefty
- amounts of historical fact surrounding their initial development and
- production.
-
- Nearly all the images on this disc are new, previously unreleased
- photos taken by long time aviation buff Fred Lloyd. These photos
- have not appeared on any BBS or computer network.
-
- Fred takes you on a tour of several historic warbird sites. A
- highlight is the world famous Davis Monthan AFB, where the US Air
- Force has stored literally thousands of aircraft, both obsolete and
- operational.
-
- You'll see pictures of such classics as the P-51 Mustang, the P-40
- Warhawk, the F-1xx series including the F-100, the F-101, F-102,
- F-104, F-105 and F-106, the mighty Phantom F-4's, the once secret
- SR-71 Blackbird, U-2 Spyplanes, the B-47, B-52, and B-58 Hustler, and
- many others.
-
- Sentimental Wings will also take you on a rare, first hand tour of
- the inside of a B-29 Superfortress, the famous type which dropped the
- world's first atomic bomb. You'll get a captain's eye view of the
- entire cockpit, bombardier and radio-man's positions of a recently
- restored museum centerpiece.
-
- You get all images in GIF, TIFF, JPEG and BMP formats for multi-
- system compatibility. Macintosh and DOS users also get image viewers
- for their machines.
-
- Minimum system requirements: Microsoft Windows 3.1, 256 Color VGA
- display (1MB SVGA video adaptor recommended).
-
- The images on this disc are copyright (c) 1994 Walnut Creek CDROM and
- Fred Lloyd. All rights reserved. No reproduction is authorized
- without the express written permission of the author.