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===Microsoft Flight Simulator, First Releases 2021, 2022===
On the 18th June 2021, PMDG released their first Aircraft for Microsoft Flight Simulator with the Douglas DC-6. Then during February/March 2022 the group announced that the first of their upcoming Boeing 737 Next-Gen Aircraft (Boeing 737-700) had reached BETA Testing and a Streaming/Broadcasting embargo was lifted in April 2022 around 3-4 weeks prior to release.
Among the chosen 'Streamers' were [https://www.twitch.tv/chewwy94 Chewwy94] & The Flying Fabio, who demonstrated a pre-release version. The New Aircraft was released around 21:05utc on 9th May 2022, on the PMDG Website, which went offline around 2 hours after release, whilst IT teams scrambled to put in place additional server resources to cope with the unprecedented demand. During early hours UTC of Thursday 10th May 2022 access to the PMDG website was restored and a short time after the Aircraft was once again being offered for Purchase. <ref>https://pmdg.com/pmdg-737-700-for-microsoft-flight-simulator/</ref> The twitch streamers who were able to download the aircraft upon release heaped massive praise upon the product, with one saying they felt it was a "Game Changer for Microsoft Flight Simulator, the PMDG 737 now takes the sim to the Next-Level"
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