FREEFLIGHT DESIGN SHOP
Providing Free, High-Quality AFX Files for Flight Shop
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Welcome to FREEFLIGHT Design Shop and thank you for downloading one
of our available aircraft.  This organization was founded by:   

Bill Alderson (Cyber Air)       
Guy G. Caron (The Captain's Quarters)   
Paul Conley (Classic Jets)
Tom Gibson (Classic Airliners)  
Ralph D. Mitchell, Jr.  
Frank Safranek (PreFlight Checklist)    
Kevin Trinkle (PSA Smile High)

You have just downloaded the following aircraft:
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                      * Aircraft:  McDonnell Douglas MD-83      *
                      * Designer: Bill Alderson                 *
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If you rework and/or repaint this aircraft, please keep this text file                   
with the aircraft.  Also, in any uploads to the Internet,  please note in                
your text files (e.g. file_id.diz) that the aircraft was sponsored by 
FREEFLIGHT Design Shop.  This is along with any of the other required 
credits that go along with the aircraft - more about this later.

FREEFLIGHT Design Shop has two objectives:
1. Providing high quality AFX files; and,
2. Encouraging active participation from everyone, whether developer,
   painter or pilot!

The founders arrived at a similar conclusion at roughly the same time.  Web 
sites with repainted aircraft are ubiquitous, and although some sites make 
the AFX files available along with the repaints, there are few web sites 
which are strictly devoted to providing AFX files and those sites were not 
encouraging updates. We agreed that updates must be encouraged, and decided 
do some something about it.

Eventually, after numerous telephone conversations and e-mails, the concept 
of FREEFLIGHT Design Shop was born. 

The objective of our association, and web site, is to provide to the
flightsim community the highest quality source files that are freely
available.  We welcome updates to these files so we all can share in our
joint knowledge of this fine hobby.  Simply, all we ask that if you update
a file, please CREDIT THE ORIGINAL DESIGNER and make it immediately
available to everyone without any type of charge.  You might say we believe
in "Shareware" of a different kind.  Of course, if you have a new file that 
you would like to freely share - let us know and we'll post it along with the 
others. It doesn't matter that the type of aircraft already exists, it only 
matters that it's your own creation and freely available.

As the variety of aircraft grows, so does the probability increase that
you will find just the aircraft you want for repainting in the colors and
styles of your choosing.  As much as we desire to post repaints,  we
suggest that you use the normal outlets for repainted aircraft. Several 
Internet locations are available from our "Links" section.

Lastly, Bill, Guy, Tom, Ralph, Frank, Kevin and myself dedicate this effort 
to you - the folks with that hidden talent that can only make our hobby better.  

Regards, and let us hear from you,

Paul Conley 
FREEFLIGHT Design Shop 
http://www.geocities.com/~freefltdesign/

October, 1998