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Flight Unlimited

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This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 7, 2015 by  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:30, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Project leader Seamus Blackley

Flight Unlimited is a 1995 flight simulator video game developed and published by Looking Glass Technologies. It allows the player to pilot reproductions of five real-world airplanes and to perform aerobatic stunts. A virtual instructor teaches basic and advanced flight techniques, such as the Immelmann turn and Lomcevak. The first self-published game released by Looking Glass, Flight Unlimited was intended to establish the company as a major video game publisher and to compete with the Microsoft Flight Simulator franchise. Project leader Seamus Blackley (pictured), a particle physicist formerly of Fermilab, used real-time computational fluid dynamics calculations to code a simulated atmosphere for Flight Unlimited. Previous flight simulators had often used wind tunnel data to determine a plane's motion, which precluded complex maneuvers. The game was a commercial and critical success that spawned three sequels: Flight Unlimited II (1997), Flight Unlimited III (1999) and Jane's Attack Squadron (2002). Soon after Flight Unlimited's completion, Blackley was fired from Looking Glass, and he went on to design Jurassic Park: Trespasser for DreamWorks Interactive and the Xbox for Microsoft. (Full article...)

Part of the Looking Glass Studios video games featured topic.