This has been an excellent week for freeware releases. In addition to POSky's 737-700 release, Rick Piper has released his great HS project and I spied some cool looking "yesteryear" airliners in the library I'll have to try out. But this tribute is mainly for Project Opensky--thanks for once again releasing a great aircraft! Our skies in Phoenix, Arizona are filled with the 737-700, being a hub for Southwest and Continental manages to land a few as well. I think the '700 with its winglets is one of the more beautiful commercial transport aircraft in the skies--just something about its proportions seems just about perfect. Anyway, here's links to some of the threads posted to date in the screenshots forum. Special thanks to Corey Ford for his outstanding effort on all the initial liveries!-Johnhttp://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...&mesg_id=231355http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...&mesg_id=231387http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...&mesg_id=231383http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...&mesg_id=231347http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...&mesg_id=231304

The 737-700 is a beautiful model viewed from any angle and still has good frame rates on my mid-level machine. I think POSKY went a bit overboard on the .air file, trying to give it a feel of a heavy aircraft with lots of inertia. Even at very low weights, it is difficult to hold the aircraft on centerline during landing in any but calm winds. In fairness, I have not flown a 737-700, but I do have a few thousand hours in a Boeing KC-135 and it was quite responsive at low speeds, especially to rudder inputs. In any event, they put a lot of work into this and deserve credit for an exceptional freeware addition to our pastime.Dale