Historie: Derived from three-seater Levasseur PL4 (reconnaissance aircraft) of the Naval Aviation, the PL8 "White Dove" is especially built by the firm of Pierre Levasseur,for the raid PARIS - New York, envisage by Charles Nungesser and François Coli. It is under the direction of the chief of studies Emile Farret and the works manager Albert Longelot, that work for the realization of the PL8 was executate. For the achievement of the raid, the fuselage was widens in order to be able to placed in "coast at coast" the pilot and the navigator, the hull was redrawn, the two front places are removed in order to be able to install the three enormous tanks and to thus carry the capacity of fuel to the 4025 liters necessary to the long crossing envisaged." Nothing is left randomly, the engine is tested during 43 hours in Chartres, what makes it possible to the technicians to appreciate its capacities, its consumption and to thus calculate the potential distance which it can carry out with its fuel reserve. Feature: Gear texture take from the real gear of the plane ! (the real gear is in the aeronautical museum of france) see the Gear.bmp texture in texture folder Dropable gear full reflective aluminium propeler and interior ! 100% moving control surface ruder pedal stick pilot and coopilot Realistique raining effect on glass (for fs2004) Airplane landable at sea Dark cockip gauges (hall engine off and cold) By Matthias Lieberecht. Realistique navigation light and elumination of instrument at night Angle reporter (sextant) fot navigate whit the help of star, moon, sun New star.dat whit 4900 new start for naviguing whit the star by J. Chuang (just replace the oldy start.dat in main fs2004 folder) Autopilot web navigator in flight via the kneeboard_keys_files by Scott drhifi@cox.net for relaxing !