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... that FlightGear can simulate the real weather at any location at a given moment?
... that creating liveries is one of the easiest ways to contribute to the FlightGear project?
... that you can set up full heigth storms with lightning and turbulence?
... that FlightGear is used for research by several companies, including universities?
... that OSG is able to render reflections on water?

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...that FlightGear is used by almost 25.000 users?
...that some planes can perform dogfights?
...that FlightGears scenery covers the whole globe?
...that you can move your head around by holding the middle mouse button in view mode?
...that you can chat live with both developers and users in our IRC channel?
...that you can toggle the menubar on or off by pressing F10, and even change the GUI style by pressing Shift + F10?
...that FlightGear changed from PLIB to OSG as of version 1.9?
...that you can walk through some of the aircraft cabins?
...that FlightGear's first release was in July 1997? FlightGear is over 11 years old!
...that there are over 230 aircraft available?
...that there's a total of over 150 liveries, based on real airlines, available for various planes?
...that FlightGear is available in over 5 languages?
...that everyone can control air traffic as of version 1.9?
...that crashes ignite real fires in the development version?
...that MPDummy is positioned near runway 28L at KSFO to test your multiplayer settings?

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