Wings of Power: WWII Heavy Bombers and Jets

Wings of Power WWII Heavy Bombers and Jets is a video game of the flight simulation genre released in 2004 as an add on to enhance Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.Wings of Power adds vintage historical military aircraft to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.Wings of Power also adds 50 missions with some historical missions from real military pilot logs from WWII and adds new special effects to Microsoft's flight simulator series.

The aircraft in Wings of Power WWII Heavy Bombers and Jets include the B-17 Flying Fortress models F and G, B-29 model a Superfortress, Arado 234B Blitz, He-162 Salamander, Focke-Wulf Ta-183 Huckebein, Avro Lancaster Mk III heavy bomber, B-24 models D and J Liberator and PB4Y-2 Privateer.

This simulator add on is strictly with Pilot or Copilot controls only.So there is no combat in this add on unlike Shockwave's earlier Firepower add on.However the developers added some sophisticated controls and actual pilots procedures used to start and fly these aircraft in the simulation.So they simulate how the aircraft is actually flown to a very good degree. The simulation add on comes with a good size 158 page manual detailing the controls and operable 2D panels which can be brought up on the computers screen to manually operate different control panel boxes used in the actual aircraft.However not all the actual pilot and copilot controls of the real military aircraftare here in the simulation most notably the B-17's induction system. Unfortunately this is due to...
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