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Hi Good People, Some interesting stuff happening within the Ford Project Team. Edward and I have been busy and have been creating some very good liveries for the Default Microsoft Curtiss Jenny JN4D aircraft. This old girl has not been a friendly model for repainters and there is a void of historical,Fact, Fun and Fictional liveries for her. Edwards, after a lot of research has come up with a bucket of historical aircraft data that we could paint up for the Jenny that would work with the "mirror mapping" and other qwerks in the overall model texture mappings. Just a couple of liveries we have create are: Daredevil Lindbergh - a close representation of one of Lindbergh's early aircraft Another is a Jenny hanging from the roof in a museum - The Fish. I am normally fairly creative but this livery is a real beauty. There are over 20 other liveries already painted and you can check them out at the Ford Project - Coming Soon Page - click on any page top banner and you will be taken to the Coming Soon Page or the direct link is: http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/coming-soon.htm We are trying to cover a good global use of this girl and give her a burst of life for simmers that enjoy LOW and SLOW flying in the simulators. There is still several more to be repainted up for this girl - some listed on the Coming Soon Page. IMPORTANT - These liveries are for the FS2004 Default Curtiss Jenny JN4D aircraft - HOWEVER, I believe that the aircraft ports very easily to FSX and these liveries will work very well in FSX as well (even a little bit richer) So if your interested in LOW and SLOW flying in your sim (FS2004 or FSX) then there are some pretty good new liveries soon to become available, hopefully early August 2014 That's all for now - hope you enjoy our FREE stuff designed for your simulator entertainment. Regards Garry and Edward.

Hi Good People, Recently I discovered by chance that a volume of some of the best Ford Tri-Motor Project products had been poached from either the big sites (that we authorised to distribute some components of the Ford Stuff) or from the Ford Site itself and was being illegally distributed by an unauthorised web site. I will not give this "suck and publish" site the advantage of FREE advertisement and traffic by naming the site - suffice to say that they have been made aware of the consequence of their illegal publications and have promptly removed all of the unauthorised Ford Project related product from their site. Edward and I carefully monitor the "download" numbers from our site and the authorised sites and from that make decisions on what is popular and warrants new and further development along that particular path. Those that appear to be not so popular go onto the backburner. This pirate site facilitated several thousand downloads of stuff that we did not know about - one product had over three times the downloads from the pirate site than we had in total for that product and in the other cases more than twice as many downloads as we had records for. Several of the Scenery Packs (totalling over 1000 downloads) were missing critical components - AI Traffic, building models and textures which are provided by other packs available from the Ford Site. This disadvantaged the downloader and would have implied that our product is faulty. This also seriously skewed our perspective on what was popular and therefore some important projects were stalled because of our incorrect understanding fostered by this piracy. In a nutshell - because of the illegal distribution without consent or authorisation the Ford Project has had some very serious impacts for simmers and our current and future developments. Another consequence for the simming community is that they are possibly missing out on their expectations of what The Ford Project Team is currently developing and what we will develop in the future. The Ford Tri-Motor Project site is a vast and overall very complex project with many interactive components and everything is provided totally FREE. The projects exists for your flight sim enjoyment - to ensure quality and development paths to suit your preferences we need to be selective about the distribution agents we use to ensure the products we make available are complete and recorded as legitimate downloads. The only authorised sites for distribution of our products are the Ford Tri-Motor Project Site, www.GJSmith.net, and the following sites that have specially selected releases: www.Flightsim.com, www.AVSIM.com, www.Simviation.com and www.sim-outhouse.com If you have downloaded anything related to the Ford Tri-Motor Project from any "unauthorised" site then please feel free to visit the Ford site (http://www.ford-tri-motor.net) and obtain the genuine and complete products for your needs. Any Ford Project product that you may come across that you think may be from an unauthorised site please send us a quick e-mail and we will resolve the problem. Your support in this matter will help us to maintain and continue to provide the best product we can for your enjoyment. Sorry for the "wordy" thread but Piracy has many and varied impacts on our work as it does on other developers work and needed some clarifications. Regards Edward and Garry Your Ford Project Team.

The Ford Tri-Motor Project Team has another exciting historical aircraft for you to enjoy: The deHavilland DH89a Floats Version Aircraft created by Dave Garwood and friends - who graciously gave permission for us to use his aircraft and release it from the Ford Tri-Motor Project site. We have focussed on the Floats version and created a very special pack of 40 historical liveries of the 1930's era. Plus a Paint Kit for other budding artists to tinker with. To view a slideshow of the entire pack of liveries: http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/counter/DH88-Counter/click.php?id=44 This aircraft and texture pack has been added to our Miscellaneous Aircraft Page: Direct link here: http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/Misc-Aircraft.htm There is a bucket of special aircraft on the Misc Page - including a couple of other DH89a repaints - however, this pack is highlighted with a red border. While your visiting the site check out the Other Aircraft that we use in support of the Ford Tri-Motor Project as well as the bucket of scenery that is freely available. As a side note - almost 50 thousand download of the hundred of fun Jigsaw Puzzles that are available on the site for your entertainment. :-) Anyway folks - that is all for now from the Ford Tri-Motor Project Team. Happy simming from Ed and I.

Hi Good People, For those that are interested Edward and I have Packaged up Jens B. Kristensen's deHavilland 91 Albatross (with his consent of course) and a small bucket of era specific liveries. As many may know only around 6 Albatross's were every manufactured before deHavilland was required to focus on the Mosquito production for WWII. The Albatross was an outstanding piece of design work for 1938, almost revolutionary in what it delivered as a passenger aircraft in comparision to other developers. But unfortunately the potential was never fully explored. We, the Ford Project Team, thought we would do some "what if" liveries for this classic aircraft and give her a bit of artificial history as a World Class Passenger aircraft. You will find her at http://www.ford-tri.motor.net - via the Other Aircraft Page or direct link http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/Misc-Aircraft.htm I hope it brings some happy flying times to your sim. Regards and happy simming

Hi Good People, Edward and I are considering adding a new "Support" aircraft for use in the Ford Tri-Motor Project. The FS2004 De Havilland DH.91 Albatross by Jens B. Kristensen. This aircraft fits within our era specific range and would be a great addition to the overall impact of the Ford Tri-Motor Project. Below are some screenshots of some tinkering with liveries for this girl. I know she is a fully wooden aircraft - but I, of course, did some tinkering with some full metal skin versions - just to see how they would come out. However, before we get stuck into integrating this girl into the project there are two things that need to be addressed: (1) I have been trying to get in touch with Jens to seek his consent for us to use his aircraft for the Project but have had no response so far. Without his consent then we cannot proceed with the aircraft and a package of liveries for her. If anyone knows a more current e-mail for Jens then please let me know so that I may contact him. (2) If consent is forthcoming then we need to know if there is interest out there for us to put in the time and effort to create a batch of era specific liveries for this girl. Therefore we request that you let us know your opinion via this forum or via e-mails to either Edward or I - your are also welcome to suggest a livery for inclusion in the suite. Edward's e-mail lostsoulsoftexas@gmail.com Garry's e-mail garry@gjsmith.net Thanks for your time and I look forward to your responses. Happy simming to all. Garry

Hi Simmers, Not sure if your aware that the Ford Tri-Motor Project contains not only the Ford Tri-Motor aircraft and texture sets but also many other aircraft and texture sets for the same era. A treasure trove of gems for your flight sim enjoyment. In the Other Aircraft (http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/other_aircraft.htm) Listings we have the following that have their own page: (01) deHavilland DH88 - liveries for the Microsoft Default Aircraft (02) deHavilland DH80a - aircraft and liveries for Milton Shupe's award winning aircraft - floats, wheels and ski models and lots of texture sets (03) Lockheed Vega5 - over 200 texture sets for the Microsoft Default Aircraft (04) MAC Flamingo - large range of texture sets available. And something even more interesting is that we also have a Miscellaneous Aircraft Page - a secret stash of some other outstanding aircraft and texture sets. (http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/Misc-Aircraft.htm) Contains: (01) Dragon Rapide deHavilland DH89a - Floats Aircraft with 40 liveries and paint kit (02) Dragon Rapide deHavilland DH89a - Wheels Aircraft with 43 liveries and paint kit (03) Vickers Vimy - two liveries for the Microsoft Default aircraft (04) Junker F13 - Wheels Version with 20 liveries (05) Boeing Clipper 314 - Floats aircraft and 4 liveries plus a paint kit (06) Messerschmitt 108 - Aircraft and 3 liveries plus a paint kit (07) Fleet Freighter 50K - Milton Shupe aircraft - 3 models - Floats, Wheels, Skis, new 2D Panel, 12 liveries and a paint kit (08) Boeing 221A - Aircraft and 5 liveries (09) Curtiss Jenny - three liveries for the Microsoft Default Aircraft. (10) DH89a Wheel and Float models with paint kits only - Plus a small batch of independent texture set for the deHavilland 89a models There is lots of award winning stuff in the "Other Aircraft" and "Miscellaneous Aircraft" pages that I am sure you will get some great fun out of using - all totally free for your flight sim enjoyment. Regards Garry and Edward your Ford Project Team.