FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 26, 1992 CONTACT MALLARD SOFTWARE (214) 436-0044 MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR ENTERS IN THE AGE OF MULTIMEDIA WITH AIRCRAFT AND ADVENTURE FACTORY Mallard Software, Inc., publishers of BAO's Sound, Graphics, and Aircraft Upgrade announced today that it will bring to market Aircraft and Adventure Factory (AAF). This multimedia creation package turns a Microsoft Flight Simulator user into an aircraft designer, air traffic controller, test pilot, flight instructor and tour guide, with total and complete control of their flying fantasies. Aircraft and Adventure Factory is another great product from the Bruce Artwick Organization (BAO), creators of Flight Simulator and Aircraft & Scenery Designer (A&SD). Aircraft and Adventure Factory allows the users to design, build and fly their own aircraft - far beyond the limitations of Flight Simulator and A&SD's features. You can model and build each plane with its specific flight characteristics and performance levels from component parts that you design. "AAF should be even more popular than Aircraft & Scenery Designer, " says Hugo Feugen, CEO of BAO, "This product takes a major step forward towards a truly open architecture Flight Simulator by giving you access to Flight Simualtor variables dynamically and by allowing you to add your own digital sound. "Aircraft and Adventure Factory lets you author your own Flight Simulator adventures. You can design scavenger hunts and even add sound effects to each adventure you create. Other features include a frame display counter and scenery coordinate background system that provides correct magnetic variations throughout the U.S. to be used as a background canvas for A&SD scenery. "This is our most exciting package yet," says Steve Greene, president and CEO of Mallard, "Making Flight Simulator a true multimedia package is an accomplishment we're very proud to be associated with. Preliminary response to this product has been fantastc. "Aircraft and Adventure Factory is scheduled to release October 1, 1992. It will have a suggested retail of $39.95 and will include both a 1.2 Mb 5.25" disk and 720 KB 3.5" disk in the same package. Mallard Software, Inc. is located in Lewisville, Texas and currently publishes a complete line of Microsoft Flight Simulator upgrade and add-on software.