Third Wire

Third Wire Productions, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Video games
Founded	Austin, Texas, United States (1999)
Headquarters	Austin, Texas, United States
Products	'Strike Fighters: Project 1 Wings Over Vietnam First Eagles (See complete products listing.)
Website	ThirdWire.com

Third Wire Productions Inc., (also known simply as Thirdwire or Third Wire), is a C corporation based in Austin, Texas, USA; it is an independent software development company founded in 1999 to create multimedia entertainment, such as flight-simulation and strategy games.

Products

Third Wire is the developer of many computer games, including First Eagles: The Great War 1918 and Strike Fighters: Project 1. There are other products outside of the combat sim genre, a notable example of these projects is First Flight: The Wright Experience Flight Simulator, which is a Wright brothers' Flyer simulator for reenactors.

Strike Fighters: Project 1 (2002)
First Flight: The Wright Experience Flight Simulator (2003): A training tool developed for Wright Experience Centennial test pilots and now available for the public.
Strike Fighters: Gold (2004)
Wings Over Vietnam (2004)
USAF: Air Dominance (2005): A recruitment game developed for the US Air Force (Not for public sale).
Wings Over Europe (2006)
First Eagles: The Great War 1918 (2006)
First Eagles: Expansion Pack 1 (2007)
Wings Over Israel (2008)
First Eagles: Gold (2008): A combo pack containing First Eagles and Expansion Pack 1.
Strike Fighters 2 (2008): An update to Strike Fighters: Project 1 to run on Windows Vista.
Strike Fighters 2 Vietnam (2009): An update to Wings Over Vietnam to run on Windows Vista.
Strike Fighters 2 Europe (2009): An update to Wings Over Europe to run on Windows Vista.
Strike Fighters 2 Israel (2009): An update to Wings Over Israel to run on Windows Vista with Direct X 10 support.
First Eagles 2 (2010): An update to First Eagles: Gold to run on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Strike Fighters 2 Expansion Pack 1 (2010) First of the expansion packs for Strike Fighters 2 series, requires Strike Fighters 2 Israel stand-alone or merged with other Strike Fighters 2 series to run, adds Operation Kadesh, and 3 new flyable planes: Mystère IVA, Meteor F.8, and P-51D Mustang
Wings Over Israel Add-on (2010) an add-on to the Wings Over Israel, it adds Mystère IVA, Meteor F.8, and P-51D Mustang as player-flyable aircraft.
Strike Fighters 2 Expansion Pack 2 (2010) Second of the expansion packs for Strike Fighters 2 series, requires Strike Fighters 2 Europe stand-alone or merged with other Strike Fighters 2 series to run, adds a hypothetical 1956 campaign, and 3 new flyable planes, as well as several variants: ]English Electric Lightning F.1/2/3/6, Hawker Hunter F.1/2/4/5, F-100A/C.
Strike Fighters 2 North Atlantic (2012) New title in the Strike Fighter series to include new terrain engine, better graphics and F-14 Tomcat as player flyable.
Strike Fighters 2 Expansion Pack 3 (TBD)Third expansion pack will add the Mirage F1 as a player flyable aircraft.

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