I remember when...

[Ghastly]

I remember when...

skys had no clouds...

after a year or two, you could tell with near certainty what kind of an airplane it was at about 5 miles because the developers made each aircraft dot "twinkle" a little differently...

there was nothing better than that mad rush of running a JU-52 in NOE hoping and praying that you would get close enough before you were seen ...

unless it was having the dots straight ahead resolve into an enemy flight of heavy fighters coming NOE to close your base - as you were running an NOE flight in to close theirs ...

The hours and hours hunting Bobn in his 190 with Nopoop ...

arguing with myself over spending yet another night in the game at $2.00 an hour ...

The sense of belonging that came with flying with the EZTargets that first time I flew online  ...  (I did it backwards, I'd flown offline probably in excess of (no exaggeration) 1000 hours over a year and a half, joined the most fun seeming squad I could find, and THEN signed up for online play)

The Aluminum waterfall in the P&D ...

Stir's "Ooooh Ghost.... guess what, I did it again!" (and looking back to see 7 bandits on Stir) ...

The first time I killed Daddy in his P51 ...

Mury explaining - for the 20th time - in that patient, ever thoughtful way of his ...

The first time I was ever ranted at, after HOing Stiglr by sheer accident after a couple of weeks of online play when I fired on something I couldn't even see coming out of the sun as I climbed into a headstand in my P38 - completely panicked because I'd lost track of him right on my six and I was sure he was right there right behind me and I just couldn't see him ...

driving home from the Con that first year after meeting so many of the people that up to that point hadn't really seemed "real"...

The sheer joy of setting the game time to nightfall, and taking up the Banshee Wail for a 40 minute evening flight across the map in offline mode, to land just after dark.

[Yknurd]

I remember when the only map we had included pizza and a shiner in it.

[Max]

I'm an old man and don't remember anything.

[B@tfinkV]

I remember when......AH1: furball was defending a V-base in an osti and i was bombing him in an A20. i dropped my whole bomb load in 'salvo 1' fashion before i realised he was towering out and re-upping each time the bomb hit his spot. must have made me mad cos i came back in a B17 and took out the (single, camo netting style) VH.

[Kermit de frog]

I remember when the FM wasn't as good as it is today.  Typhoons used to roll as fast as a 190.

[Airscrew]

Originally posted by Meatwad
Thats a classic!!

Getting a victory for each kill, man that has really been long ago!

it wasnt that long ago was it? 2002? feels like yesterday

[BaldEagl]

I remember when men were men and sheep were scared.

[FrodeMk3]

I remember squad missions to bomb the Giant squid that lived in the hole near the 163 field on the Mindanao map(and crashing the server when the squid died)

[megadud]

i remember when the furball reigned surpreme and the whole point of the game was to learn acm and to dogfight so that when the furball came you could hold your own and when there was a furball once a night for the whole night consisting of about 50 planes...

i remember when i used to bug the "best" to train me and get beat on for hours but keep getting better everytime...

i remember when the DA had killshooter off and was a billion times better because we didn't have to fly for 5 minutes to get 1 fight in...

[nopoop]

Originally posted by Ghastly
I remember when...

The hours and hours hunting Bobn in his 190 with Nopoop ...

Ghost !! Jeez my friend I'm glad you posted up. Email me at nopoops190@sbcglobal.net.

Be great to catch up.

[Heater]

I remember when HiTech was Just a PUTZ and Not THE PUTZ

[bzek74]

I remember when Marlboros were 90 cents a box =p

90prf

[festus]

Originally posted by Ghastly
The hours and hours hunting Bobn

LOL Ghastly, I have not thought about this in a long time. I used to go by EZdoc as an EZTarget back in Warbirds and early AH days, to an old EZTarget!

I remember hunting as a squad for Bobn LOL

I also remember when the p-51s wings were made of paper, pulling out of a dive was a dangerous proposition and nearly impossible without rippin the wings off.

I remember Weasel (aka Jihad) and JG2 Richthofen in the early days of AH

I remember roger wilco

[IronDog]

I remember when EA games pulled AW3 out from underneath us old AW'ers.Most of us came to AH,some went to WB's.Ya we were a lil nervous,only a lil tho!I had flown AH under a pseudonym,when it first came out,so it wasn't completely new to me.A couple of our squaddies had left for AH previously,so we had help.Thanks to ,and ...hehe.Seems so long ago.Hats off to Hitech and AH,and all the grizzled vets of AH,that helped make AH our new home.I just wonder how many folks have flown AH only,AH and AW.AH and WB's,and AH,AW,and WB's.I will go first.I have flown all three,including Fighter Ace,only for a couple days,what a cluster it was!I even flew Confirmed Kill,and thats going back a ways.
IronDog 475th/431 Fighter Squadron   Public Relations Officer
Member of S.A.P.P.

[hubsonfire]

Originally posted by Airscrew
it wasnt that long ago was it? 2002? feels like yesterday

This wasn't in AH was it? I started in 01, and I don't remember it, but that could easily be due to my bourbon intake back then.