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                         Boeing 717-200
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    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. 

  Other aircraft I've done:
    
    All of these planes include the source .afx and .pcx files and
are available FOR FREE at ftp.iup.edu. Many of them are also available 
at http://wings.ark.com and http://www.flightsim.com. 

    Aircraft                                       	File Name
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Antonov An-14					an14.zip
    Aviation Traders ATL.98 Carvair			atl98.zip
    Ayres Loadmaster LM200				lm200.zip
    BAC One-Eleven Series 500			    	bac-111.zip
    Blohm und Voss P.178				bvp178.zip
    Boeing B-52G Stratofortress			    	b-52g.zip
    Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo				f2abuff.zip
    Convair CV-880				    	cv880.zip
    Convair CV-990A				    	cv990a2.zip
    De Havilland D.H.106 Comet I		    	comet1.zip
    De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter		    	dhc3ottr.zip
    Gippsland Aeronautics GA-8 Airvan			ga-8.zip
    Grumman XF5F-1					xf5f-1.zip
    Hawker Siddeley Trident 2e				tridnt2e.zip
    IAI Astra 			            	    	astra.zip
    IAI Westwind II			    	    	wstwnd2.zip
    Ilyushin Il-86 'Camber'				il-862.zip
    Lockheed JetStar prototype		    		jetstarp.zip
    Lockheed JetStar II		    	    		jetstar2.zip
    Lockheed P-38J Lightning		    		p-38j.zip
    Lockheed VC-140B JetStar		    		vc-140b.zip
    McDonnell 119/220					119-220.zip
    McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51 (with Mike Vidal)		dc-9-51.zip
    McDonnell Douglas MD90 (with Mike Vidal)		md90v2.zip
    Mikoyan MiG-19SF 'Farmer C'				mig-19v2.zip
    Mikoyan MiG-23ML 'Flogger G'			mig-23.zip
    Mikoyan MiG-27 'Flogger D'				mig-27.zip
    Mikoyan MiG-AT					mig-at.zip
    Piper PA-31-350 Chieftain				pa31-350.zip
    Rockwell Alpine Commander (Sorry, no .afx)  	cmdr112.zip
    Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle VIR			crvl6v2.zip
    Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle 10			crvl10v2.zip
    Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle 12			crvl12v2.zip
    Tupolev Tu-134A 'Crusty'				tu134a.zip
    Tupolev Tu-204    					tu-204.zip

    I've also repainted some of my planes for Tradewind Caribbean Airlines.
(The best VA out there, IMHO). These planes are available from TCA's home
page. All of these planes have had improvments made to the visual model 
over my original version. Sorry, no .afx's for these.

    Aircraft                                       	File Name
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
    BAC One-Eleven                                      111-tca.zip
    Lockheed JetStar                                    jtstrtca.zip
    McDonnell Douglas MD-90                             tcamd-90.zip
    Tupolev Tu-204					tcatu204.zip

  Installation:

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

    717src.zip contains the source .AFX, .PCX and an UNTESTED FS5/FSFS
.AIR file that was used to construct this model.

February 10, 1998

Eric C. Johnson
Brentwood,CA  USA

ericj@usa.net
