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"I want Spruce Goose to stay in the game forever."

Two years ago, a call from Barry Greenberg, director of the Eva Air and Space Museum, was abruptly placed on the mobile phone of Xbox Game Studios executive producer Yogel Newman, and it was the call that made Microsoft simulated Flight a project beyond the game.

Not long ago, Microsoft released the 40th Anniversary version of Microsoft simulated Flight, which provided players with major updates free of charge, and held a launch event at the Eva Air and Space Museum in Oregon.

The launch event was chosen to be held at the Eva Air and Space Museum precisely because it holds one of the prototypes of the update-the Hughes Hmur4 Hercules water transport plane.

Hughes Hmur4 Hercules, known by the nickname "spruce goose", is 66.65 meters long, 24.18 meters high, five stories high, and its wings spread out 97.82 meters, longer than a football field. It is the largest all-wood structure water transport in history.

Comparing the surrounding scenery, we can see the size of the "spruce goose". This giant plane was originally built by the United States to transport military materials during World War II, but because of the excellence and anti-war sentiment of designer Howard Hughes, it was not until the end of World War II that the prototype was built and could not be put into mass production.

So only Hughes himself conducted a test flight of it in 1947, gliding a mile out of the water for dozens of seconds, and has been shelved in the Hughes aircraft Company warehouse ever since.

Later, with the disintegration of Hughes aircraft Company, Spruce Goose wandered around in California and Oregon. It was not until 2001, when the Eva Air and Space Museum, which was specially built for it, opened that this legendary work in aviation history was seen again.

The appearance of the Eva Air and Space Museum and now, this legendary masterpiece, which only meets the blue sky, everyone can drive it freely in the game.

This is exactly what Microsoft simulated Flight wants to do. After receiving a call from Barry Greenberg, it took them 18 months to do an accurate scan of the legendary masterpiece, which has only one plane in the world and left no drawings behind, recreating all the details and keeping it in the game forever.

"Spruce Goose" in "Microsoft simulated Flight" is landing on the water, which has led to more ideas for producer Yogel Newman, who decided to use Digital Preservation (Digital Preservation) technology to provide assistance to more museums and save more planes into Microsoft simulated Flight. So far, the team has scanned about 300 precious aircraft, including two rare aircraft, Dornier Do J Wal and Savoia-Marchetti S.55.

Dornier Do J Wal, which appeared in Microsoft simulated Flight, both were built for transatlantic flights, many of which were destroyed during World War II and are preserved only in aviation museums in South America, which did not directly participate in the war.

However, affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, museums around the world are in trouble. Most of these aviation museums are unable to maintain their aircraft, and Microsoft simulated Flight has provided financial support to help them tide over the difficulties.

Yogel Newman said: "in the future, we will focus on 'Digital Preservation' as the focus of content development, protect more aviation historical heritage, and make 'Microsoft simulated Flight' a project beyond a 'game'."

(from left) Evergreen Aviation Museum Barry Greenberg, Xbox Game Studios Yogel Newman, Asobo Studio CEO Sebastian Woloch, Asobo Studio executive producer Matthew Bassad, everything is just right. November 2 this year is the 75th anniversary of the "spruce goose" test flight, and 9 days later, November 11 is the 40th anniversary of the "Microsoft simulated flight series". Fate brings together people with common ideals. To accomplish this great cause.

The only pity is that the sound of "spruce goose" in the game actually comes from the Wright Rmur3350 engine carried by the Bmur29 bomber. "Spruce Goose" has eight engines, but now none of them can work properly. I'm afraid no one in the world knows the real engine sound of "Spruce Goose" anymore.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), author: Qimu cake

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