Man - what a great list of names.
Got me all nostalgic, and now I want to fly.
blesk here - have been, though anymore just "b" works pretty good. Even have buds in meatspace that call me that, which sort of makes me feel like I'm in an episode of Mayberry RFD, but I suppose that's better than feeling I'm an extra in a turkish bath movie.
So - started AW in '90 after returning from Germany - GEnie days, and I had a MacPlus with a Blackbox modem. I had reach over and hit a switch on the modem to connect, and it used to give me a shock if I touched it wrong. The priest came, but the excorscism didn't work, so between not really being able to deal with the b&w graphics on the 4"x4" screen (I know, I know it was bigger than that, but sheesh) - I gave up. No, I couldn't even guess what my tail number was, but I suspect it would have been filled with zeros.
But then, joy of joys, a couple years later I got a pc - and one with graphics good enough to give AW a go again. One of the first things I did was seek out AW (again) and sure enough, there it was, living on Compuserve. It wasn't all that long afterwards that it migrated to AOL, and though I'm norwegian I'm not THAT stupid, so moved where the flyin' was cheaper.
Started in FR, and stayed in FR, except when Stimp demanded we go fly RR because he was getting motion sick from spinning so much.

Miss the old days with the Sheps - and the lot of you. sure was good fun.
Really, it really is good to see the faces from days gone by.

I've spent some time in AH - and think I'll have to crank up the account again. I've a decent box to fly with now, and though I'll suck, I'm sure it'd be fun again. Kinda left when Buzz died - don't know why - just did. But, was fun to see old faces before, and I bet it'll be just as fun now.
Might be riding up to Con with Tex, so I can but say this; Beware the Geiss.

blesk - aka b
69th Shepherd's Fold
Recently (a couple years ago) with the Damned in AH