Wings Of Power: WWII Heavy Bombers & Jets add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004

by Tri Synergy

Product Features

• Add-on pack for use with Microsoft Flight Simulator (sold separately)
• Fly famous WWII heavy bombers and experimental Nazi jet aircraft
• Realistic 3-D cockpits are fully clickable with authentic, working gauges

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0002IWYLS
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 13, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,606 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The creators of the award-winning FirePower use their critically acclaimed skill to dominate the civil aviation world with Wings of Power for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.

Features:

• Gorgeously constructed aircraft, inside and out, down to the last rivet
• Fully clickable cockpits with authentic working gauges
• 3D cockpits so real, they look just like their 2D rendered counterparts
• The latest wind-tunnel technology helps to create for the most authentic, fluid flying qualities, including complex spins and stalls
• Enhanced lighting visual effects
• Fly the famous heavy bombers of WWII and the ingenious German jet technology that opposed them
• Manual including rare data and the real operation of these amazing aircraft

Product Description

Wings of Power: WWII Heavy Bombers And Jets adds a number of meticulously detailed military aircraft to Flight Simulator 2004. Enjoy one of the most acclaimed flight simulators around, with bombers and aircraft taken straight from the actual blueprints and performance ratings of the time. Includes 100-page manual filled with pilot reports, authentic flight manual diagrams, rare factory blue prints, and other hard-to-find information

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More than worth it!, January 5, 2005

By 

Jefferson T. Packer (Taos, NM) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Wings Of Power: WWII Heavy Bombers & Jets add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 (CD-ROM)

This add-on would be worth it for the B-29 alone. "Doc's Deadly Dose" is so meticulously modeled, both visually and flight-model wise, that I simply don't know how it could have been done any better on a PC. As a bonus, you also get a Lancaster, two different models of Flying Fortress in 2 paint schemes, a Liberator, a PBY4 patrol plane, and some exotic German jets, all modeled with fanatical perfection in every area.

As a real pilot, I'm looking for flight simulation, not gaming. The ultimate in PC simulation is as follows:

FS2004 "A Century of Flight" plus
"Wings of Power" plus
"Simcharts" from Jeppesen Sandersen.

Together, the 3 titles will set you back about $130 or so, but imagine this:

File IFR and blast off into the rainy overcast in the B-29 Superfortress. Climb into the sunshine on top. Cruise in the stratosphere making contrails from big radial engines. Descend back down into the muck, and test your skills shooting an ILS down to minimums, using the printed-out approach plate on your kneeboard. Break out over the REIL's, and grease the landing in a rainshower, and then pull onto the ramp and shut her down. Don't forget to shut the cowl flaps to keep the birds out. It's literally all that realistic. For more challenge, repeat the above but on a pitch-black night.

The whole time, you participate in fully-interactive ATC communications, and the entire IFR environment right down to every last SID, STAR, ILS, VOR, NDB, outer, middle and inner marker along with runway lights is fully and completely modeled for your flying pleasure. The Simcharts CD from Jeppesen is designed to work with the nav data in FS2004, and all you need for a completely all-inclusive IFR flight simulation, is high and low altitude enroute charts which you can order from them as well.

The combination of these three software apps, gives any Instrument rated pilot the perfect way to maintain and increase his/her skills at an extremely low cost; since $130 equals about 1 hour of dual instruction in a new Skyhawk.

Of course, if you just want to blast around the sky, you can do that too, and it's fun. But the more you ask of FS2004, the more you shall receive; and for simulating the IFR flight environment while flying some truly righteous airplanes, this is simply as good as it gets.

Now, how about an "Age of Propliners" add-on, with the DC-7, Boeing Stratoliner, Yankee Clipper and Constellation? Huh? Huh? I'm salivating just thinking about it... We can only hope.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wings of Power, December 18, 2005

By 

Soggy Toast - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Wings Of Power: WWII Heavy Bombers & Jets add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 (CD-ROM)

The add on is great.
but the sellers here are ripping people off for it.
one has it New for $79.95
and another has it Like new for $64.99.
I paid $30.00 NEW from EB Games for mine.
shop around and you will find it much cheaper then here.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No guns but great flying, July 20, 2006

By 

J. Turner Jr. (Titusville, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Wings Of Power: WWII Heavy Bombers & Jets add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 (CD-ROM)

I highly recommend this product, if not for the two B-17 variants alone! The engine sound effects are professionally recorded and mixed, and the virtual cockpits are fully functional. I swear I can feel the 'soul' of each plane through the joystick ... I loved this product so much I went back to the developer's website (ShockWave Productions) to also get the indvidual download packages representing several variants of the P-47 Thunderbolt, P-51 Mustang, Focke Wulf 190, Fw-190 "Longnose" and Heinkel 219 Owl. ShockWave Productions has an online store at their website and I strongly suggest any prospective buyers of "Wings of Power: Heavy Bombers and Jets" should visit their site for more information.

The "Wings of Power" bombers are very enjoyable to fly and will perform according to published military specs and manuals. Be forewarned, however, that you can't explore any crew stations other than the cockpits. ShockWave's sister product "FirePower" for Combat Flight Simulator 3 allows the player to move to each gun station including ball and dorsal turrets and also fire the guns; the models in "WoP: Heavy Bombers and Jets" look nearly identical but the pilot is restricted to pilot/co-pilot duties. The player can open and close the bomb bay doors but as far as I know the bombs can't be released. The WoP planes should be regarded as civilian planes that fly at combat weights and power.