******************AERITALIA/LOCKHEED F104-G********************* 
Textures for an AMI example in NATO camouflage used in 1970's years by 154° Gruppo of 6° Stormo "Alfredo Fusco" based at Ghedi Brescia

FILE: f104G_6.ZIP

VERSION.1

For FS2000 only. 
Here it is my very first project using the new program FS Design Studio by ABACUS (www.abacuspub.com).I dedicate myself on making this plane as a practical exercise for learning on the field the usage of the program . I hope that it'll be well accepted by the FS community.
I worked very hard on preparing this plane but if someone is interested in the FSC object file of this project, to learn how it was done and /or to tweak the visual model can send me an E-mail with the request and I would be very glad to share my work and send it.

Due to exceptional possibility given by FSDS I was able to create a visual model very close to the real plane.
This plane has much as possible moving parts like flaps, wing slats, ailerons, rudder, elevator, steering nose wheel linked to the rudder, and looking inside engine exaust nozzle it is possible to see the turbine rotating and changing color when is engaged the afterburner.
I would have done also the cockpit which opens but at the moment I'haven't envisaged how to do. At first I thought to link the movement of the canopy to the spoiler command but it is not good to see the cockpit opening while the plane is high flying so I dropped the idea.  If there is some good fellow who knows how to do please contact me at: 
< maxtaccoli@tiscalinet.it. >
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This is FREEWARE. These files are strictly for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any redistribution, repackaging or reselling of these files in any form is expressly prohibited without my written permission.© M.Taccoli April 2000
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Acknowledgements:
I wish to tank the team of Abacus for making the FSDS program.
I wish to thank also Mr Konstantin Kukushkin for his wonderful Aircraft Animator program.

Many thanks goes to Marco Spada  < m.spada@mclink.it > who did the panel for this plane and for letting me enclose it in the zip file.

Installation:
Is necessary to have Fs98 converter already installed.
Need not to be converted. To install, unzip the ZIP file into the \AIRCRAFT subfolder of FS2000.  Be
sure to check the "Use Folder Names" box in WinZip.  
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Brief history of the plane.

A multi-mission aircraft derived from the F-104C, the F-104G was manufactured in Europe under a joint programme involving German, Italian, Dutch and Belgium companies who were scheduled to build initially 947 machines by 1965, number which then reached 1300.
Initial orders for Ami was 124 examples and 12 for the TF-104G two-seat version
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April 2000, Massimo Taccoli
E.mail maxtaccoli@tiscalinet.it
