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Microsoft Flight Simulator’s 1930s air-racers let you pretend there’s a new Crimson SkiesThe second batch of Famous Flyers planes introduces the Gee Bee Super Sportsters
The second batch of Famous Flyers planes introduces the Gee Bee Super Sportsters
Microsoft Flight Simulator: Famous Flyers #2 - Available NowWatch on YouTube
Microsoft Flight Simulator: Famous Flyers #2 - Available Now
Air-racing was a big deal during the Golden Age of Flight in the years between global conflicts. The Granville Brothers Super Sportsters, or Gee Bees, were built to place first in the National Air Races of the time. Both models of the Gee Bee ended up crashing and were destroyed. You might’ve spotted a replica constructed of the Model Z in The Rocketeer, which has been scanned to reproduce the plane for Microsoft Flight Simulator. They’re stupidly fast but tricky to fly, and hard to land. Both planes can sport three liveries and have their original cockpits.
I usually think of Flight Simulator as a sedate time staring out of the cockpit at whatever bird’s eye grandeur is passing below, emitting the occasional “ooh!” or “ahh!” on the way. Firing up these bad boys for some sweet spins low and fast over deserts and seas, and high above cloudy metropolises, looks like it will really get that air-ace sense of adventure pumping though. I spent a ridiculous amount of time tricking out planes in the alternate sky-pirate world ofCrimson Skieswhen I was a kid, so these Sportsters certainly float my dirigible.
If you want to spice up Microsoft Flight Simulator with the correct water height for Alaskan rivers or, say, the Millennium Falcon, then Craig’s guide to thebest Microsoft Flight Simulator modscould be for you. Maybe try tospot a solar eclipseor find theWindows XP wallpaperwhile you’re zooming around? The Gee Bee Sportsters Famous Flyers bundle is £12.50/$15/€14 in the game’s marketplace. Check out the full patch notes for Flight Simulator update 9here.
