Echo Canyon, Railroad Valley region, Nevada - United States.
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Echo Canyon, Railroad Valley region, Nevada - United States. |
Aircraft Tailcode: AX |
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Flight Center III, or "Area-A" if you prefer the old-school name, is our main flight test center for military and space operations. It is also the largest, most detailed scenery we've created to date, and contrary to it's numbering, it's also the oldest. Back in FS98 I was on the hunt for my own private "Area 51". I had picked three dry lake beds in central Nevada - one at Lunar Lake in Railroad Valley, one in Kawich Valley, and one at the extreme south of Railroad Valley on the Wilson Salt Flat that the Red Flag pilots simply call "Bearpaw". On the map it was near a small wet lake called Echo Canyon reservoir, which didn't exist in FS98, but was a cool name for the base. During FS98 those bases became Area B, Area C, and Area A, respectively. Area C was never really pursued, and was abandoned after FS98. Area B eventually became Flight Center IV. Due to the size of the Bearpaw dry lake, Area-A became the largest of the three.
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Project Credits
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This scenery was redesigned slightly and didn't really come about properly until FS2000, when I started working on the TR-3, SR-75 and other military projects. After releasing the TR-3A in early 2001, I finally got satisfied with the scenery and version 1 was released in September 2001 for FS2000.
In 2002, Area-A was revamped again, and almost doubled in size. A small weapons depot was added south of the TR-3 ramps, with a special hangar for arming/de-arming military planes. Also a new heliport was added to the south end of the base, and further south an RCS range was added for testing stealth aircraft designs. |
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During 2003, Area-A was host of the final mission during Battle of the Airlines 2003 Moon Race, which coincided with the release of Version 2 for FS2002. Area-A was chosen because one of the craft in the race was a space shuttle of our design, called SV-1 Orion, and it was decided by the BOTA staff, that it would be cool to end the Battle of the Airlines where the shuttles were made. A slightly modified version of the scenery was used for that event. The standard version 2 was released April 2003.
Like many of the aircraft based here, Area-A has been lost in development hell for quite some time. A version was nearly completed for FS2004, but then came FSX....and entirely new design/export methods for all those custom scenery object macros.
For FSX we release the newest and best version of our oldest and largest scenery area, combined with it's sister base up the road, Area-B, in Railroad Valley 2013, a full scenery download including both airports (and many more ouposts) all in the same package!
Airport Information
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Current Inventory Learjet 45 Boeing 737-800 Bell 206 EH-101 F-18C F-15E KC-10
Current Projects
Recurring Projects - In
development hell, somewhere on these grounds.
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