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Historic Jetliners Group (HJG) have pleasure announcing its 3rd anniversary website update ...featuring debut release of its secret aircraft project of the past several months, along with another flightline of classic/nostalgic B707, B720, & B727 liveries for FS2004 & FSX .

New B707-320C & B720-B textures include the late 1970's livery of an airline representing a Middle Eastern kingdom. New early production B727-100 textures feature both mid 1960's and 70's identities for a Caribbean based operator. And new late production B727-100 textures represent the late 1960's livery of a Colorado based US carrier ...4 variations of attractive and historic gold & black livery employed by a major Mexican airline during the 1960's 70's era ...And freighters featuring both a Latin American based aircraft in the colorful livery of a major international courier service, and another strikingly liveried aircraft operated by a lesser known African carrier both of more recent times.

But that's not the lot...

New HJG B727-200 ADVC textures feature the late 1980's livery of a Middle Eastern kingdom, and a rare military aircraft recently operated by the USAF-ANG ...And an early production B727-200 freighter conversion in the current identity of an Irish cargo specialist.

An upgraded/more authentic 1985 Piedmont Airways texture for B727-200 ADVC has also been released.

But ...wait for it... because HJG's great secret aircraft project of the past several months is now a secret no more...

HJG have pleasure announcing release of the first of its new DC9 flightline beautifully crafted by Nicholas BOTAMER ...featuring the DC9-50... accompanied by a selection of the most historic US operators of the type from the 1970's, 80's, & 90's period, including also the McDonnell-Douglas demonstrator livery of 1975, along with the 1980's identity of a major Scandinavian carrier. 2 P&W JT8D soundpacks have also been released for HJG's new DC9 family. For further information regarding this latest FS offering kindly refer to the "NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS" page of the HJG forum.

All this and more are now available for "FREE" download and your private FS enjoyment from the HJG website at following website address...

http://www.simviation.com/hjg/

HJG thank Pete DALY/SIMVIATION for the past 3 years of invaluable support, and also acknowledge with gratitude kind support and encouragement from the international FS community throughout this duration .... THANKS EVERYONE !  

ENJOY !

Mark CRANSTON
HJG

Amazing stuff Mark, think I'll be doing some downloading tonight

Good on ya "OZZY72" .... that's what I like to hear !

Here's a few inages of our new DC9-50 in action ....









ENJOY !

Mark C
AKL/NZ & BOG/CO

Happy Anniversary, Mark.  And thanks for all the stuff you folks give to the sim community.

best,

...................john

That's truely our pleasure John .... and thanks again for all your support too.

We couldn't have done anything without you guys !

Mark C
AKL/NZ

Downloading the -9, one of my favorite "tubes".  Just wondering, is a panel in the works as well?  And an Ozark livery?

All our DC9's presently have panel folders aliased to the default MSFS B737-400.

Unfortunately we don't have our own panel to offer for these aircraft and as we no longer have a panel designer or gauge programmer (we welcome anyone with the appropriate skill talents who wants to join us though) it's unmlikely we'll be offering our own DC9 panel. In view of this situation .... I personally favor the DC9-40 panel by Stellan HILMERBY, which though complex (just a learning curve really) is, in my oppinion, the very best panel currently available for this aircraft type.

In fact yesterday I recieved authorization from Stellan HILMERBY for HJG to host his panel, but. it'll be a while before we're ready to upload it.

If folk would like to refer to the "DC9 PANEL" thread .... which appears on the "GENERAL" forum page of the HJG website forum .... there you can read a bit regarding this panel option as was posted by me a few days ago and prior to receiving approval from Stellan HILMERBY.

Some folk are also posting on this thread regarding more simplistic panel options too.

HJG's plan is to represent the entire DC9 family with new models. I'm not sure what we'll see regarding liveries in the future (that's up to the painters of course), but, given the historical significance of OZARK .... and the fact they supported some damned nice looking variations of livery too .... I'd be very surprised indeed if we don't end up representing that particular livery.

Mark C
AKL/NZ