about

team members

Peter Binamira: flight dynamics designer

Andy Warden: model designer

Demetris Themistocleous: painter

Derek Mayer: model designer, painter

John Tavendale: painter

Tom Collins: painter

Thijs Oudkerk: model designer, painter

past and present contributors

Nicholas Wu, Trevor Slack, Thomas Ruth, Alexander Kvitta, Michel Theriault, Simone Barbarisi, Eric Marciano, Thomas Kwong, Alessandro Savarese, Matthew Murray, Gianmarco Bettiol, David Bromwich, Ben Jones, Dickson Chan, Terence Pereira, Sheldon Fernandes, Capt. Manny Osias, F/O Spike Acenas, Mark Bolatete, Kester Masias

background info

Project Airbus was born in the mist of flight simulation's golden era, at a time when all add-on production was taking a turn to supreme accuracy and evolved from sheer simplicity to authentic flight recreation.

In early 2002, Trevor Slack came across Thomas Ruth's website, while his A300 was still in production. Trevor had the benefit to beta test Thomas' creation and they constantly exchanged ideas and information, so to end up naming their effort “Project Airbus,” and soon after, with the texturing assistance of Nicholas Wu, the A300 became the first group's big hit. The number of variables they had managed to incorporate into the model was almost revolutionary and never seen before in the flight simulator scene.

In the meanwhile, a lot of people were inclined to help the group's effort and names such as that of Thomas Kwong, Alexander Kvitta, Peter Binamira, Michael Karam, Gianmarco Bettiol or Micheal Theriault were written down PA's book. The A320 was another success – and the last for quite some time. It also included many new features and was widely regarded as simply the best A320 flight simulator rendition available at that point in time.

The group went through a rough patch in late 2003 and early 2004 and was commonly decided that there was a break. However, a proposal to revive the group with new blood and projects was welcomed and work on the new version of the A320 began. Three years later, the A320 has finally been released and Project Airbus has a lot more up its sleeve for the future!

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