Flying High!, a CD-ROM for $9.99 from Essex Interactive Media, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
Flying High! is a collection of two programs–U.S. Airpower and Airliners–offering hundreds of video clips and photos for the aviation enthusiast’s viewing pleasure. U.S. Airpower focuses on American military aircraft from WWII to the present. Airliners concentrates on views of commercial craft. Each product provides some brief data and captions on the material. Particularly nice are video clips of the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds demonstration teams in various planes.
Though the package is simple and lacking in multimedia polish, the source materials are still quite good and can be copied for use as Windows backgrounds. Some of the photos are a little grainy and the videos lack audio, but the sheer volume and variety of both should please most.
Bernard Dy
