Asobo reveals big new surprises for Microsoft Flight Simulator: 40th Anniversary Edition
The 40th anniversary of the Microsoft Flight Simulator series is fast approaching. To celebrate this milestone, Asobo and Microsoft are releasing a special, free update for the sim, which introduces a variety of new aircraft and features. While it showed off the Anniversary Edition months ago, Asobo came to Gamescom 2022 to reveal even more surprises about this update, including new planes both small and quite large.
Some of the new planes include the Spirit of St. Louis, a pioneer for transatlantic crossings, and the Wright Flyer, the first heavier-than-air aircraft that marked the true introduction for the aviation industry as we know it.
We now know that the Anniversary Edition will bring 12 new aircraft in all. We knew of entries like the mighty Airbus A310, a fully complex airliner that’s coming completely for free, and the legendary Douglas DC-3, the twin-engine piston that’s been flying for decades.
These aircraft will be joined by newly-revealed planes like the Curtis Jenny, a very popular trainer aircraft from 1915, the Gruman Goose, a beautiful amphibious plane known for shuttling celebrities, and the prodigious Hughes H-4 Hercules, aka Spruce Goose. It only flew for 20 seconds in real life, so this will mark the first time it flies as intended.
The 40th Anniversary Edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator also brings the long-awaited arrival of gliders and helicopters. Asobo explained the mechanics behind them more during its Gamescom presentation.
Asobo did more than just add these aircraft in. It has done extensive work to the physics and airflow simulation to provide authentic flight dynamics and model behavior.
In layman’s terms, the team has worked hard to simulate the various ways a helicopters blade alter
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