A historical record regarding X-Plane was published on the official website here, so here is a brief introduction.

1989 Austin Meyer began writing flight simulation software himself 1992 Austin and Randy Witt met in college 1993 The first version of X-Plane was released, named “Piper Archer-II IFR” at the time, with a price of approximately $650 1995 Austin founded the company Laminar Research 1996 The second version of X-Plane was released, adding support for Windows 1997 X-Plane 3 was released 1997 X-Plane 4 was released, priced at $199 1999 X-Plane 5 was released 2001 X-Plane 6 was released

2003 Ben Supnik joined as the first full-time engineer 2004 X-Plane 8 was released, featuring DVD installation for the first time and adding support for Linux December 2004 Randy joined the team in customer support 2007 X-Plane 9 was released September 2008 X-Plane mobile version launched November 2011 X-Plane 10 was released December 2014 X-Plane 10 mobile version launched November 25, 2016 X-Plane 11.00.b1 was released March 30, 2017 The official version of X-Plane 11.00 was released December 25, 2017 X-Plane 11.20vr1 was released, adding support for VR devices

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XX - 03/19/2022 07:33:52 PM

Hello! Which version has the most realistic aerodynamics and uses fewest resources? Thankss fewer resources? Thanks.